Paramilitary

Being There: Why I Want to go to Colombia

Elizabeth Palmberg 7-08-2011

Don't get me wrong -- I love sitting behind my computer here at Sojourners, or proofreading a stack of magazine-pages-to-be, fresh from Art Director Ed Spivey's printer. But sometimes there's no substitute for being on the scene, live and in person.

Bloody Sunday and Telling the Truth

Gareth Higgins 6-16-2010

For 14 people in my homeland, northern Ireland -- a place whose divisions are so fully on the surface that we still can't agree what to call it (the reason I spell it with a small 'n') -- the clocks stopped on January 30, 1972.

They're Back

Janna Hunter-Bowman 4-01-2010

Colombian paramilitaries target community and church leaders.

'God Will Not Hear You': Death Threat to a Colombian Pastor

Elizabeth Palmberg 3-29-2010

"God will not hear you," the death thre

U.S. Military Aid and the Paramilitaries Behind the Philippine Election Massacre

Katrina Abarcar 12-11-2009

For many of us in the U.S., the sometimes vicious attack ads of last year's presidential election are more than just a recent memory.

A Pre-Emptive Peace Prize?

Gareth Higgins 10-20-2009

I know it's been a week and a bit, which in the contemporary mode suggests that ancient history has already passed under the bridge since the Nobel Committee announced its decision, but I wanted to

A Prophetic Call in the Midst of Political Corruption (Colombia's Churches Cry Out, Part 2)

Janna Hunter-Bowman 9-23-2009

[continued from part 1]

Colombia's Churches Cry Out for Accompaniment

Janna Hunter-Bowman 9-22-2009

"If [state officials and the paramilitary groups] knew what we were telling you, we would be riddled with bullets as soon as we walked out that door."

New Violence Takes Aim at Northern Ireland's Hard-Won Peace

Gareth Higgins 3-09-2009

On Saturday night, two young soldiers preparing to go to Afghanistan were murdered in Antrim, Northern Ireland. Four other people, including two men delivering pizzas, were injured.

A Controversial Approach to Healing Northern Ireland's Violent Past

Gareth Higgins 1-29-2009

It's a significant week in Northern Ireland, with the latest development in the long-running peace process.

Who's Winning in Colombia's Conflict?

Janna Hunter-Bowman 8-26-2008

What have you heard about the paramilitary leaders extradited to the U.S. on drug trafficking charges? As formally demobilized paramilitary, they were being processed under what is known as the "justice and peace law" and were in the midst of hearings. Their confessions of macabre acts, partial at best, evolved to include naming ties with the Colombian government and international corporations. [...]