"The CPN is a much-needed way to support the courageous and mostly unheralded efforts of the Church to build peace in war-torn countries from Central Africa to Southern Asia."

Bishop John Ricard
Chairman, U.S. Bishops' International Policy Committee

"The CPN is a space of exchange, encounter and discovery where we help each other understand our peace-work, generated in faith and actualized in history."

Andrea Bartoli
Community of Sant' Egidio,
USA

"CPN is another concrete way of building solidarity among peacebuilders around the world. The energy that it will bring will help us in facing the many difficult challenges of peacebuilding work in our different contexts. My hope is that we are able to bring the same energy eventually to the communities directly affected by war, violence and conflict - creating not only a network of peacebuilders but more imoprtantly a network of communities all over the world."

Myla Leguro
Peace & Reconciliation
Program Manager
CRS-Phillippines

Harbingers of Hope: United States Institute of Peace Special Report

Virginia M. Bouvier

(See also   Colombia: Building Peace in a Time of War, Virginia M. Bouvier)

Lisa Sowle Cahill, Boston College Department of Theology (Paper in English)

 
Como construir paz en tiempos de guerra?
Olga Consuelo Velez Caro

Development and peace
Fr. Rafael Castillo, Colombia, commentator (Powerpoint in Spanish)

A Culture of Peace and Reconciliation: ways to build the country we want
Fr. Francisco de Roux, SJ, Development and Peace Program in Magdalena Medio (DPMM) (Paper in Spanish)

The role of civil society in peacebuilding in Colombia
Fr. Mauricio Garcia Duran, Colombia, commentator (Paper in (English) (Spanish)

Peace Mobilization in Colombia and the Role of the Roman Catholic Church
Mauricio Garcia Duran

Colombia: Challenges and Dilemmas in the Search for Peace (Conciliation 2004) Mauricio Garcia Duran

The Global Context of Colombian Peace Processes
Fr. Darío Echeverri, CCN (Powerpoint in Spanish)    

Lessons Learned in Peacebuilding in Colombia:  Reflections from the Perspective of the Social Ministries/Caritas
Monseñor Héctor Fabio (Keynote in (Spanish) (English)

Fr. Dario Echeverri, The Catholic Church and the Peace Process
(Paper in Spanish)

Rosa Inés Floriano, Joint program SNPS-CR (Powerpoint in Spanish)

 
The Colombian Church and Peacebuilding, chapter from "Colombia: Building Peace in a Time of War"

edited by Msgr. Hector Fabio Henao Gaviria

Liliana Maldonado, Colombia, commentator (Paper in Spanish)

Remarks from Archbishop John Onaiyekan, Archdiocese of Abuja, Nigeria

Concluding reflections and discussion on the future of Catholic peacebuilding in Colombia

Bishop Leonardo Gomez Serna, Diocese of Magangué (Remarks in Spanish)

Latin America and the Caribbean: Domestic and Transnational Insecurity
Arlene B. Tickner, Universidad de los Andes, February 2007
Coping with Crisis Working Paper Series: Evolving Challenges to Human and International Security

Peace Sowers, Ficonpa (Powerpoint in Spanish)

Plenary Notes from Wednesday, June 27 (Spanish)

Plenary Notes from Thursday, June 28 (Spanish)

Notes from Bishops' Session, Friday, June 29(Spanish)

Colombian Bishops Plan for Peace 2002

Colombia: Towards Peace and Justice?

Latin America Report No. 16 of the International Crisis Group

Used with permission.