Isabel Macdonald
Coordinator

Around 1983, before coming to live Costa Rica, I briefly knew The Friends Peace Center (CAP) as a passerby in San José. I worked in Managua with the Evangelical Committee for Social Help (CEPAD), where I served as a translator and guide for groups of believers from the US who wished to know first hand the scope of the Sandinista revolution. The majority opposed the United State’s policy of helping the contra revolution and threat of invasion into Nicaragua. In the Friends Peace Center, during a reunion one night, I got to know people with similar worries to mine.

Eighteen years later, I came back to CAP, again being in a period of new aggression: the threat of the U.S. invasion into Iraq. The Center was a space where people who opposed this mistaken military venture could get together and demonstrate before the Costa Rican people, their repudiation and indignation.

Twenty years later, after my first encounter with CAP, I come back yet again, this time with the challenge of collaborating in the development of programs, and in this process, I have the opportunity to get to know many worried and dedicated people (just like the founders of the Center), to promote a culture of peace, and to contribute in the search for greater respect and solidarity between people.

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