:: OUR ORGANIZATION

The work of is carried out by an international team based in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas. From their base in San Cristóbal, the team travels to the principal areas of conflict in the state. With the goal of joining together with other organizations and movements at a national level, our team has expanded its work to other areas in Mexico, specifically Oaxaca and Guerrero.

The work and information gathering of the international team serves also to inform the Board of Directors, as it carries out its responsibilities for evaluation, decision-making and planning. Our board is comprised of representatives from various organizations who form part of the SIPAZ coalition.

The SIPAZ coalition is made up of organizations from the Americas and Europe who have a long history of work in the areas of peace, human rights and the peaceful transformation of conflicts and share a deep concern over the issues that have created the violence in Chiapas and other parts of Mexico (Guerrero, Oaxaca, the border states)

In addition to these three bodies, our International Advisory Committee provides moral and institutional support to the work that SIPAZ carries out both within as well as outside of Chiapas.

Members of the SIPAZ Coalition

• Asociación Cristiana de Jóvenes - Argentina
• Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America (EEUU)
• Benedict Sisters of Erie (Pennsylvania, EEUU)
• Brigadas Internacionales de Paz (Gran Bretaña)
• Capacitar (California, EEUU)
• CAREA (Alemania)
• Carolina Interfaith Task Force on Central America (EEUU)
• Catholic Conference of Major Superiors of Men´s Institutes - Peace and Justice Committee (Washington DC, EEUU)
• Centro Cristiano para Justicia, Paz y Acción No Violenta - Justapaz (Colombia)
• Centro Memorial Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Cuba)
• Church of the Brethren (EEUU)
• Christian Peacemaker Teams (Illinois, EEUU)
• Corporación Justicia y Paz (Ecuador)
• Dominican Sisters of San Rafael (California, EEUU)
• Ecumenical Program on Central America & the Caribbean (Washington DC, EEUU)
• Episcopal Peace Fellowship (Washington DC, EEUU)
• Fellowship of Reconciliation (New York, EEUU)
• Franciscan Friars, Santa Barbara Province (California, EEUU)
• Franciscan National Justice, Peace and Ecology Council (Washington DC, EEUU)
• GRM/Mayan Ministries (Illinois, EEUU)
• Global Exchange (California, EEUU)
• IF (California, EEUU)
• Iniciativa Ecuménica Oscar Romero (Uruguay)
• International Committee for the Peace Council (Wisconsin, EEUU)
• International Fellowship of Reconciliation (Holanda)
• Kentucky Interreligious Taskforce on Central America (Kentucky, EEUU)
• Leadership Conference of Women Religious (Washington DC, EEUU)
• Loretto Community Latin America/Caribbean Committee (Colorado, EEUU)
• Marin Interfaith Task Force on the Americas (California, EEUU)
• Michigan Peace Teams (Michigan, EEUU)
• Movimiento Ecuménico por los Derechos Humanos (Argentina)
• National Benedictines for Peace (Pennsylvania, EEUU)
• Pax Christi (Pennsylvania, EEUU)
• Pax Christi International (Bélgica)
• Peaceworkers (California, EEUU)
• Peace an Justice Committee (Whasington DC, EEUU)
• Presbiterio de Chicago (Illinois, EEUU)
• Racine Dominican Sisters, EEUU
• Religious Task Force on Central America and Mexico (Washington DC, EEUU)
• Resource Center for Nonviolence (California, EEUU)
• Servicio Paz y Justicia en America Latina (Montevideo, Uruguay)
• Southeastern Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) (Florida, EEUU)
• Strategic Pastoral Action (New York, NY, EEUU)
• Sojourners (Whashington DC, EEUU)
• Swedish Fellowship of Reconciliation - SweFOR (Suecia)
• Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (Massachusetts, EEUU)
• Washington Office on Latin America (Washington DC, EEUU)
• Western Dominican Province (Arizona, EEUU)
• Witness for Peace (Washington DC, EEUU)

SIPAZ International advisory committee

• Mairead Corrigan-Maguire

Nobel Peace Prize 1977, Ireland

• Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

Nobel Peace Prize 1980, Argentina

• Rigoberta Menchú Tum

Nobel Peace Prize 1992, Guatemala

• José Ramos-Horta

Nobel Peace Prize 1996, East Timor

SIPAZ Board of Directors

• Luisa Palmer

President, United States

• José Astudillo

Vice President, Vicaría de Pastoral Social, Ecuador

• Gustavo Cabrera

Treasurer, Service for Peace and Justice in Latin America, Costa Rica

• Rev. Denise Griebler

Secretary, Mayan Ministries, United States

• Marita Rodríguez

The Swedish Fellowship of Reconciliation (SweFOR)

• Marina Pagés

Coordinator of SIPAZ Chiapas, Mexico

• Jet Nauta, SIPAZ’s Member Team

Chiapas, Mexico

SIPAZ International Office:
P.O. Box 3584 Chico
CA 95927-3584, EEUU
Tel.: (+1.530)-892-0662