GRACE Pilgrimage - Caminata por la Vida
by the Grace Foundation, in cooperation with the Universidad de la Resistencia, the Peace Village of San José de Apartadó and the Peace Research Village Association.
Walking Together for Peace
Peace Pilgrimage
01 - 05 October 2008
Creating Knowledge for a Peace Culture
Educational Camp
07 - 17 October 2008
For 5 days a group of approximately 200 people from all over the world walked for Peace in Colombia led by Sabine Lichtenfels, Padre Javier Giraldo and Benjamin von Mendelssohn.
Passing through villages and hamlets surrounding the area of San Jose, an area unprotected between the fronts of civil war, participants were confronted with the threatened reality for Colombian peasants and how they can be part of developing global peace strategies for crisis areas around the world.
Together with the inhabitants of the Peace Village San José de Apartadó and other Colombian peace communities, each Pilgrim did show with this peace action their commitment to create a global peace force that no longer stops at national borders.
The Grace Pilgrimage - Colombia 2008 was the 3rd Pilgrimage led by Sabine Lichtenfels in the name of Grace and was inspired by the long standing cooperation between the Tamera peace research centre in Portugal, the Peace Village San José de Apartadó in Colombia and the Peace Research Village Association in Germany.
