by Sean Reilly | Feb 9, 2008
Thirteen supporters of Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) and On Earth Peace, an agency of the US Church of the Brethren, have visited the West Bank and Israel to explore civil society responses to conflict, security and community. The trip took place from from 8...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 8, 2008
I sat in the Jerusalem Hotel restaurant on Sunday 27 January 2008 and read the headline in the Israeli newspaper, Ha’aretz, “Yeshiva counselor who killed terrorists lives to tell the tale.” In that article Elyakim Kovatch, the counselor who shot two...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 4, 2008
Some international peace workers in Colombia have decided not to join a march today against guerilla group FARC. Local human rights activists say it “dangerously oversimplifies” the quest for a just peace. In Barrancabermeja, the Human Rights Workers...
by Sean Reilly | Feb 4, 2008
The Israeli authorities have released the bodies of two men shot by settlers to the Palestine Red Crescent Society for burial in their home community of Beit Ummar in the Hebron District – but the mourners were then fired on with live ammunition by the IDF...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 17, 2008
Paul Mukerji, a tour manager from Kent in England, is travelling to Colombia as part of a delegation sponsored by Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), which works to ‘get in the way’ of violence in zones of conflict around the world. Mr Mukerji will meet with...
