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The following people are members of Christian Peacemaker Teams Corps and are based in the UK. 

CPT Corps members

Jan Benvie

Address: 2 Roods Square, Inverkeithing, KY11 1NR(Scotland)
Phone: 01383 410632
Email: jbenvie@yahoo.co.uk
Brief Bio: Jan trained with Christian Peacemaker Teams in January 2005 and is now a CPT full-timer in Hebron/Al-Khalil, and represents CPTers on the CPT Steering Committee. She also spent six weeks in summer 2005 in Iraq with CPT. She works with young children with special needs and is a member of Anglican Franciscan Order, the Third Order of the Society of St Francis

Maureen Jack
Address: 80 Hepburn Gardens, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9LN (Scotland)
Phone: 01334 472697
Email: maureenjack2000@yahoo.com
Brief Bio: Maureen trained with Christian Peacemaker Teams in January 2003 and is now a CPT reservist. She spent two and a half months in 2003 in Iraq with CPT, both before and after the war. Since 2004 she has spent regular stints of time with the Hebron/Al-Khalil team. She is a retired educational psychologist.

Alwyn Knight

Phone: 01580 766265

Email: alwynknight@btinternet.com

Brief Bio: Alwyn first visited Hebron, and the CPT apartment, on the 7th July 2005, while on a tour organised by the Alternative Tourism Group.
In 2006 he spent three months in Hebron with the Ecumenical Accompaniment Progrrame in Palestine and Israel. In August 2007 Alwyn returned to the region with a CPT Delegation. He attended the winter training course in Chicago, and will now return to Hebron/Al-Khalil as a reservist.
For 38 years he was a minister of the Congregational, then United Reformed, Church. In retirement he is a member of the Religious Society of Friends.

John Lynes
Address: Garden Flat, 46A Magdalen Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex TN37 6EU
Phone: 01424 720 507
Email: jlynes@iee.org
Brief Bio: John is a full time member of Christian Peacemaker Teams and mainly based in Hebron/Al-Khalil and Iraq. He is an engineer, and lecturer in architecture. He is also a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quaker).

Associates

Justin and Jenny Alexander
Brief Bio: Justin and Jenny are CPT reservists who met in At-Tuwani (Occupied Palestinian Territories) in 2005 and married in June 2006. Justin has been visiting Iraq since 2001, first campaigning against economic sanctions, then advocating for the cancellation of Saddam's odious debts. In Spring 2005 he spent a month in Palestine and 2 months in Iraq with CPT. Jenny was with CPT in Tuwani in 2005 following a year studying arabic in Jordan.

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