ARTICLE: International Accompaniment, a Tool that Remains Valid despite Contextual Changes

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SIPAZ Report Vol XXXI Nº 2 – June 2026
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ARTICLE: International Accompaniment, a Tool that Remains Valid despite Contextual Changes

Although the quote with which we opened this article refers to the project of the Civil Peace Camps (CCP) and later the Civil Peace Brigades (BriCOs) developed by the Coordination of Non-Governmental Organizations for Peace (CONPAZ) and by the Fray Bartolome de Las Casas Center for Human Rights (Frayba) in Chiapas after the uprising of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in 1994, it also refers to the backbone of what a year later was to become the International Service for Peace (SIPAZ): international accompaniment.
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ARTICLE: SIPAZ – Three Decades of Supportive Presence and Blossoming Hope. Interview with Jorge Santiago

In commemoration of our 30th anniversary, we decided to sit down with people who have encountered SIPAZ along the way. One of them is Jorge Santiago Santiago, a renowned human rights defender, theologian, and pastoral advisor in Chiapas.
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