Christian Peacemaker Teams

What Christian Peacemaker Teams does

Community Peacemaker Teams (CPT), formerly Christian Peacemaker Teams, is a nonprofit organization founded in 1986 that places trained teams of nonviolent peacemakers alongside local communities confronting lethal conflict. CPT only works where invited by local partners and currently maintains active programs in Iraqi Kurdistan, Lesvos (Greece), Palestine, Colombia, and Turtle Island (North America). The organization places small teams of 4-6 trained peacemakers in crisis regions to conduct human rights documentation and observation, nonviolent intervention, advocacy, and solidarity accompaniment of local peacebuilders. Its portfolio of engagement services includes short-term Delegations to program sites, CPT Training and workshops on nonviolent action and bystander intervention, speaker invitations, and community supper events, supported by weekly Friday Bulletins, quarterly newsletters, annual reports, and targeted thematic publications such as trial-monitoring reports on Greek asylum cases.

CPT's service delivery rests on no proprietary technology platform; its methods are documentation, observation, advocacy, and ministry of presence rather than a software product. Its core assets are a trained corps of approximately 30 full- and part-time stipended peacemakers and nearly 200 part-time volunteers, sustained by a network of regional groups, reservists, and faith-community sponsors. CPT originated from the historic peace churches (Mennonite, Church of the Brethren, and Quaker) and rebranded from "Christian Peacemaker Teams" to "Community Peacemaker Teams" in January 2022 to reflect its evolution into a multi-faith organization while retaining denominational ties to its founding communities.

CPT is a 501(c)-style nonprofit funded almost entirely by private giving: the largest share comes from individual donations across thousands of donors and hundreds of contributing congregations, with a smaller portion from foundation grants. The organization explicitly does not accept money from any government or governmental agency. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with a second office in Toronto, Canada, CPT operates with an invitation-driven go-to-market model where programmatic expansion follows partner demand rather than commercial sales activity, and supplemental revenue flows through social-enterprise partnerships (e.g., Tawakkul's SALAM line, Casa Cultural La Roja, Cooagropaz) that channel a portion of sales toward CPT's Colombia work.

Name

Christian Peacemaker Teams

Legal name

Community Peacemaker Teams

Website

https://cpt.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1986

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Community Peacemaker Teams (formerly Christian Peacemaker Teams) is a nonprofit founded in 1986 that places trained teams of nonviolent peacemakers alongside local communities in conflict zones across Iraqi Kurdistan, Greece, Palestine, Colombia, and North America.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Nonviolent Peacebuilding and Human Rights Services

NAICS

Human Rights Organizations (813311), Social Advocacy Organizations (8133), Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813), Civic and Social Organizations (813410)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Post-Conflict Recovery, Reconciliation & Social Cohesion Programs (BPADAFAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Human Rights & Anti-Discrimination Organizations (BPAGAFAB), Faith-Based Social Services & Community Outreach (Food Pantries, Shelters, Counseling) (BPAGAJAG), Refugee Camp Coordination & Management (CCCM) (BPADAHAC)

Keywords

• Nonviolent peacemaking
• Human rights accompaniment
• Peacebuilding services
• Conflict transformation
• Civil society advocacy

Headquarters

HQ city

Chicago

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Individual Donations: The largest percentage of CPT's financial support comes from individual donations. Thousands of individuals and hundreds of congregations contribute financially. Trained CPTers also participate in fundraising within their communities to support their work.
2. Grants and Foundations: A smaller percentage of funding comes from grants and foundations. CPT does not accept money from any government or governmental agency.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Christian Peacemaker Teams (now Community Peacemaker Teams) is a nonprofit peacemaking organization that places small teams of trained peacemakers at the invitation of local communities confronting lethal conflict. The organization delivers nonviolent accompaniment, human rights observation and reporting, advocacy, training, and solidarity networking in conflict regions including Iraqi Kurdistan, Lesvos (Greece), Palestine, Colombia, and Turtle Island (North America). It also offers delegations, CPT training, workshops, speaker engagements, and community gatherings to engage supporters and build capacity for nonviolent action.

Product overview

Community Peacemaker Teams (formerly Christian Peacemaker Teams) is a nonprofit peacemaking organization that places teams at the invitation of local peacemaking communities confronting lethal conflict. The organization offers a portfolio of engagement services including Delegations (short-term visits to program sites), CPT Training (nonviolent action and bystander intervention workshops), and opportunities to Invite a Speaker or host CPT Suppers. CPT publishes Friday Bulletins (weekly email updates), Quarterly Newsletters, and Annual Reports documenting its work. The organization operates geographic programs in Iraqi Kurdistan, Lesvos (Greece), Palestine, Colombia, and Turtle Island (North America), with dedicated initiatives such as the Aegean Migrant Solidarity Program focused on migrant rights in Greece. No technology product or SaaS platform is offered.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Delegations

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• 35+ organizations (joint statement on cash assistance for asylum seekers)minorGTM or Marketing Partner · 27 February 2026CPT Aegean Migrant Solidarity co-signed a joint statement with 35+ organizations calling on the Greek state and European Commission to resume cash assistance to asylum seekers, who have received nothing since May 2024.
• 79+ Greek and international civil society organizations (joint statement on Greek migration bill)minorGTM or Marketing Partner · 29 January 2026CPT Aegean Migrant Solidarity co-signed a joint statement with over 79 organizations including Médecins du Monde, MSF Greece, Jesuit Refugee Service, HIAS Greece, and others opposing Greek Ministry of Migration legislative changes targeting civil society.
• CAHUCOPANA (Corporación Acción Humanitaria por la Convivencia y la Paz del Nordeste Antioqueño)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2007Cahucopana is CPT's primary partner in Colombia since 2007, based in Nordeste Antioqueño. The organization promotes human rights, denounces violence, and provides training to human rights defenders in farming and mining communities. CPT accompanies Cahucopana's work and amplifies their advocacy.
• Mennonite Church / Mennonite World ConferencecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCPT originated from members of the historic peace churches including Mennonites. Ron Sider's 1984 challenge at the Mennonite World Conference in Strasbourg catalyzed the formation of CPT in 1986. Mennonites remain among the primary sponsoring denominations.
• Church of the BrethrencoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne of the three historic peace churches (alongside Mennonite and Quaker) that founded CPT. Church of the Brethren appointed representatives to the original steering committee and remains an official sponsor.
• Friends/QuakerscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne of the three historic peace churches (Mennonite, Church of the Brethren, Quaker) that founded CPT. Friends meetings contribute financial support and constituency backing.
• Corporación Para la Reincorporación y la Reconciliación (CORPORECONCILIACIÓN) / Frutos de PazminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCPT Colombia partners with CORPORECONCILIACIÓN (ex-FARC combatants) through the Frutos de Paz initiative, which commercializes products from peace agreement signatories, supporting economic reintegration.
• Organización Femenina Popular (OFP)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerBased in Barrancabermeja, Colombia, OFP is a 50-year-old women's human rights organization and CPT partner. CPT supports OFP's work through solidarity campaigns.
• Cooagropaz (Cooperativa Multiactiva por la Paz)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerA farming cooperative born from Colombia's 2018 peace agreement with over 1,000 members including peace signatories and farming communities. CPT solidarity campaigns feature their chocolate, honey, and panela products.
• Casa Cultural La RojaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerA cultural space in the FARC ETCR at La Fila, Icononzo (Tolima), producing peace products including craft beer and coffee. Part of CPT Colombia's solidarity economy initiatives.
• TawakkülminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerA Colombian social enterprise producing textile products made by ex-combatants, with 10% of SALAM line sales donated to CPT/ECAP.
• Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCPT co-produces annual trial monitoring reports with BVMN documenting systematic fair-trial violations in 'smuggling' trials in Greece, particularly regarding migrants and asylum seekers.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Witness for Peace: Witness for Peace (and its legacy/related entities) ran faith-rooted delegations and accompaniment work in Latin American conflict zones, sharing CPT's model of short-term delegations combined with sustained accompaniment of local partners.
• Peace Direct: Peace Direct is a UK-based nonprofit that funds and partners with local peacebuilders in conflict-affected countries. It shares CPT's core premise that local peacebuilders should lead and that outside actors play an accompaniment/amplification role.
• Christian Solidarity International: CSI is a faith-based human rights organization that engages on religious persecution and conflict-related issues. It shares CPT's Christian-roots heritage and faith-motivated human rights engagement, though with a more advocacy-focused rather than field-accompaniment model.
• Karuna Center for Peacebuilding: Karuna Center for Peacebuilding runs nonviolent peacebuilding training, dialogue programs, and accompaniment work in conflict-affected regions. Its training and accompaniment methodology overlaps directly with CPT's CPT Training and delegation programs.
• Nonviolent Peaceforce: Nonviolent Peaceforce is the closest direct peer - it also deploys trained civilian peacekeepers to conflict zones to protect civilians and prevent violence. It operates a similar accompaniment and field-deployment model across multiple conflict regions globally, making it the most directly comparable organization to CPT.

Broad incumbents

• International Crisis Group: International Crisis Group is a much larger and more analytical incumbent working on conflict prevention and resolution worldwide. While it does not deploy field accompaniment teams, it shares CPT's core mission of reducing lethal conflict and operates in overlapping geographies.
• Amnesty International: Amnesty is a much larger incumbent in the human rights documentation and advocacy space. While not a field-accompaniment organization, it shares CPT's human rights observation and reporting methodology at far greater scale.
• Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF): MSF is a much larger field-deployed humanitarian organization that operates in many of the same regions as CPT (including Lesvos for migration-related work). It is comparable as a broader humanitarian field incumbent, though its clinical focus differs from CPT's accompaniment focus.

Emerging players

• Refugees International: Refugees International focuses on displaced populations and asylum policy, including advocacy in the Aegean/Greek context where CPT Aegean Migrant Solidarity operates. Partial overlap on refugee rights advocacy without the field-accompaniment methodology.

Regional players

• PAX (Utrecht): PAX is a Netherlands-based peace organization that combines advocacy, programs, and partnerships in conflict-affected regions. It is a regional peer with comparable peacebuilding and accompaniment activities but primarily European constituency and funding base.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/cpters
• Instagraminstagram.com/cpteams
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/christian-peacemaker-teams

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