A Call To Peace: Lessons from Communities of Faith in Action
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NEWS AND REPORTS
FROM COLOMBIA

• Reports
• Reflections on Colombia from U.S. and
  Colombian Leaders
  

REPORTS

1. Plan Colombia: Six Years Later
   Adam Isacson of the Center for International Policy wrote this report after traveling to Putamayo and Medellin. It contains telling information about how Plan Colombia has affected those areas as well as Colombia as a whole.
   Click here to download the document.
   
   
2. Chemical Reactions: A New WOLA Report on the Failure of Anti-Drug Fumigation in Colombia
   This study investigates the effects of crop fumigation in Colombia and explains how this process has depleted the natural resources in Colombia in addition to actually encouraging coca-growing. Click here to download the document.
   
   
3. Below The Radar
   This resource was written by The Latin American Working Group and various Colombia experts. It gives a brief overview of U.S. aid to Colombia over the last decade and how it has affected Colombians. Topics discussed include: military funding, the War on Drugs and human rights abuse. This is an important resource for background information and for those unfamiliar with the U.S. government's role in Colombia. Click here to download the document.
   
   
4. Community Leader's Death Highlights Danger of Resisting Violence in Colombia
   11/01/2005 : OneWorld: Washington, DC

   The murder of a well-known peace activist in Colombia has highlighted endemic violence in the Latin American country, and the vulnerability of people trying to resist it, despite high-profile steps toward ending civil war. read more >>

5. Blueprint for a New Colombia Policy
   An invaluable resource written with input from many Colombia experts and published by the Latin America Working Group, the Blueprint clearly defines the policy that we hope to see Congress support for Colombia. This is a helpful document to share with your Congressional offices, interested members of your community and local media outlets. See page 2 for an easy-to-share executive summary.
   Click here to download the document.
   
   
6. Colombia: Humanitarian Crisis Displacement and Confinement
   The American Friends Service Committee and Catholic Relief Services as part of the Ecumenical and Internally Displaced Persons Working Group on Colombia produced this informative piece that speaks to our common concerns for the most vulnerable, particularly those who are internally displaced by the conflict. Click here to download the document.
   
   
7. Building Peace from the Inside Out: Peace Initiatives In War-Torn Colombia
   This joint publication from Fellowship of Reconciliation and American Friends Service Committee provides a way for ordinary US citizens to meet ordinary Colombians taking extraordinary actions to resist war and oppression and create a dignified alternative to violence. A vibrant collection of peace efforts, this publication demonstrates the widespread desire in Colombia for nonviolent change.
   http://www.afsc.org/colombia/learn-about/Building-from-the-inside.pdf
   (this description was provided by AFSC/FOR)
   
   
   
8. 'WATER IS LIFE' Click here to read about how IELCO has been responding to victims of war and internal displacement in Nueva Colombia by providing for basic needs while encouraging participants to take leadership in the development of their community.http://www.act-intl.org/news/dt_nr_2004/dtcolombia0104.html
   
   
   
9. Pilgrims in Their Own Land:
   Forcibily Displaced Persons in Colombia
   A Fall 2003 report from ACT International "Abel Buitrago* is the living representation of Colombia’s displaced people. Tall, tanned, with weathered features and twenty years of experience working with wood, he came three years ago with his family and a mattress to the highest part of Nueva Colombia, a squatter settlement in Piedecuesta, a town 14 kilometers from Bucaramanga in the northeastern part of the country..."
   More >
   

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REFELECTIONS ON COLOMBIA FROM U.S. AND COLOMBIAN LEADERS

1. "Colombia's Crisis Deserves Our Attention"
   By Luis Gilberto Murillo, LWR U.S./Colombia Advocacy Coordinator
   
   
2. Evangelicals Organize in Front of the United States Embassy
   to Pray for Non-Violence
   William Delgado, Bogotá , D.C. Colombia, May 10, 2005.
   
   
3. A Conversation About Peace in Colombia with Ricardo Esquivia
   
   
4. "Colombia's Needs"
   By the Rev. Harold L. Usgaard , Bishop, Southeastern Minnesota Synod/ELCA
   
   
5. South Dakota Bishop Visits Colombia, Shares Reflections
   

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