Several members of Combatants for Peace met in Cyprus to participate in a workshop led by Stellan Vinthagen and Paula Green about nonviolent activism and learn new ways to organize Direct Action, enact Nonviolent Civil Disobedience, and envision new ways CFP can grow stronger as a movement.

Palestinians and Israelis, who have been a part of CFP, learned creative ways to engage with the topic of violence and new methods for transforming violence into peace. We learned about systems of structural violence, and gained tools in order to train others. After a invigorating 5 days, the participants returned from Cyprus with a new framework, which we can use to implement in our own work on the ground, including in the regionals groups, the theater group, and the women’s group, as well as in larger movement building.