Who We Are?
Service for Peace and Justice of Ecuador is a non-profit organization, with nonprofit status under ministerial agreement article 308, and which was started in 1985 as part of the international effort to respond, with a philosophy and strategy of active nonviolence, to the general situation of injustice and violence in which our countries live. We are present in four cities in Ecuador: Machala, Pasaje, Guayaquil, and Quito.
We choose active nonviolence and conscientious objection both as a lifestyle and as a mode of working. With these methods, we work so that society internalizes the necessity to permanently construct a culture that objects to structural violence and also perceives the necessity for a means of development that is human-centered and focuses on the full expression of human rights.
We are part of the Service for Peace and Justice of Latin America (SERPAJ America Latina) which has national secretaries in eleven countries within Latin America. SERPAJ Latin America functions as a consultive organ category II of the UN Economic and Social Council, and maintains relations with UNESCO (UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) with category C status.
Through the process of accompaniment and monitoring of civic organizations, we have managed to promote active nonviolence as a social action, which leads us towards the construction of a nonviolent movement. This promotes a trend that favors civic participation and the construction of democracy, through the active participation of civic society.
We are linked to the progressive Latin American movement through our memberships in: The Latin American Network of Conscientious Objectors, The Latin American Network of Education for Peace and Human Rights, Global Network, Interamerican Platform of Human Rights, Democracy, and Development, the International Resistance to War, and have been appointed to the CEAAL.
In Ecuador, we are a part of the Forum of Children and Adolescents, the Ecuadorian Front for Human Rights, International Peace Observatory (OIPAZ), and INTERCOM (an electronic communication space for civic organizations), as well as many other organizations.
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We choose active nonviolence and conscientious objection both as a lifestyle and as a mode of working. With these methods, we work so that society internalizes the necessity to permanently construct a culture that objects to structural violence and also perceives the necessity for a means of development that is human-centered and focuses on the full expression of human rights.
We are part of the Service for Peace and Justice of Latin America (SERPAJ America Latina) which has national secretaries in eleven countries within Latin America. SERPAJ Latin America functions as a consultive organ category II of the UN Economic and Social Council, and maintains relations with UNESCO (UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) with category C status.
Through the process of accompaniment and monitoring of civic organizations, we have managed to promote active nonviolence as a social action, which leads us towards the construction of a nonviolent movement. This promotes a trend that favors civic participation and the construction of democracy, through the active participation of civic society.
We are linked to the progressive Latin American movement through our memberships in: The Latin American Network of Conscientious Objectors, The Latin American Network of Education for Peace and Human Rights, Global Network, Interamerican Platform of Human Rights, Democracy, and Development, the International Resistance to War, and have been appointed to the CEAAL.
In Ecuador, we are a part of the Forum of Children and Adolescents, the Ecuadorian Front for Human Rights, International Peace Observatory (OIPAZ), and INTERCOM (an electronic communication space for civic organizations), as well as many other organizations.