ARTICLE: Faith, Engagement, and Peacebuilding: 30 Years of Learning and Commitment Rooted in Spirituality

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SIPAZ Report Vol. XXXI No. 3 – September 2026
*buen vivir* (good living), community harmony, community processes, cultural diversity, diocese of san cristobal, ecumenism, ezln, human dignity, human rights, inculturation, indigenous church, indigenous theology, interfaith dialogue, international solidarity, lekil kuxlejal, marginalization, médiation, memory, mother earth, peacebuilding, pilgrimages, reconciliation, religious diversity, religious leaders, resistance, Samuel Ruiz García, social fabric, social transformation, spiritual experiences, vulnerability
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ARTICLE: Faith, Engagement, and Peacebuilding: 30 Years of Learning and Commitment Rooted in Spirituality

Speaking of peacebuilding in Chiapas means defending human dignity, promoting justice, recognizing and respecting cultural and religious diversity, and creating spaces where differences can be addressed through dialogue and collective organization.
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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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