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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Joint Accompaniment, SIPAZ-SweFOR, 2023 © SIPAZ
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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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Presentation of the GTRF report, San Cristóbal de las Casas, May 2026 © SIPAZ
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FOCUS: “Chiapas, Pending Peace”

On May 30th, the “Border Region Working Group” (GTRF), a network of civil society organizations of which SIPAZ is a member, publicly presented the report “Chiapas, Pending Peace,” an analysis of the situation of violence and human rights in the Sierra Frontera region of Chiapas during 2025.
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