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Cooperation and Chocolate: The Story of One Colombian Community’s Quest for Peace
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YES! Magazine - Economy
Posso belongs to the Comunidad de Paz de San José de Apartadó, a conglomerate of villages scattered in Urabá of Antioquia, one of Colombia’s deadliest areas.
This “Peace Community” declared itself neutral in the conflict, pledging not to get involved in any way—from acting as informants to cultivating illicit crops—and asked to be left in peace.
Building Peace TogetherGwen Burnyeat, a political anthropologist at the University of Oxford, in England, who has studied the Peace Community, says that the concept of community is a reaffirmation of how they live, work, survive, and build peace together.
The Peace Community is known internationally thanks to the support of nonprofit organizations such as Peace Brigades International and Operazione Colomba.
Volunteers of the nonprofit organization Operazione Colomba accompanying some members of the Peace Community to Mulatos village.
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