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GLOBAL CAMPUS
THE BASE STATIONS OF THE GLOBAL CAMPUS
Favela da Paz, led by Claudio Miranda, is a project situated in Jardim Ângela, one of the favelas (slums) of São Paulo, Brazil, which the UN declared in the 90's as one of the most brutal neighborhoods of the world. More than twenty years ago Claudio Miranda began to gather friends to make music with tin cans, as real instruments were unavailable at this time. Today they formed the successful band Poesia Samba Soul and a cultural project which offers hundreds of young people the possibility to learn musical instruments and to get to know a life perspective beyond drugs and violence. Poesia Samba Soul has established the only studio in the slums of this city where young bands can record their own music. They educate youth in music, video production and design. They show young people a way to express themselves through arts, music and poetry instead of through violence.
In the last years the scope of the project has widened, giving birth to the vision of the “Favela Da Paz” (“slum of peace”), which develops answers for the current social situation of the slum. Through urban permaculture and renewable energy solutions, through building community and studying peace knowledge, "Favela da Paz" becomes an education center and a role-model for its surrounding.
São Paulo, BRAZIL
FAVELA DA PAZ
The vision of the Peace Research Village in the Middle East (PRV-ME) is to develop a model of living together that acts as a research tool for the study of peace. This model is carried by a committed core group of Israelis, Palestinians and internationals who put their lives in service of the idea that sustainable peace can be achieved only when it touches all aspects of life. The PRV-ME is part of an international network of peace communities that promote cooperation between humans and nature to support the transformation towards a sustainable and peaceful world.
The core group of the PRV, after several years of peacework and community-building training in Tamera, left for Israel-Palestine in November 2012 in the first major step towards the establishment of a Peace Research Village in the Holy Land.
Main topics:
Deep Reconciliation, Ecology, Political Support, PRV and Regional Network
Israel-Palestine, MIDDLE EAST
PEACE RESEARCH
VILLAGE
The peace village San José de Apartadó lies in Urabá (Antioquia), Colombia, on the frontier to Panama. The land is fertile, agriculturally valuable (bananas, cacao, coca) and rich in mineral resources (oil, wood, carbon, gold, water), which makes this area attractive to global-economic interests. In 1997, 1300 farmers and refugees came together and formed a peace community to resist displacement through non-violent means. They do not tolerate weapons or violence in their village and they refuse to cooperate with any of the warring faction. Since the beginning, 200 members of their community (including children) have been murdered by soldiers, paramilitary troops and guerrillas.
The peace village has become a role model for other peace initiatives in Colombia through its determination and courage to refuse to comply with violence.
Main topics:
Youth Empowerment, Political Solidarity, Regional Network and Ecology
Urabá, COLOMBIA
COMUNIDAD DE PAZ
DE SAN JOSÉ DE APARTADÓ
Born into a large poor family in Northwestern Kenya, Philip
Munyasia is a community leader and inspiration for a new way
of living in abundance. His project OTEPIC (Organic Technology
Extension and Promotion of Initiative Center) is a community-based organization. It was born from his passion for supporting
those most in need: subsistence farmers, especially women and youth, in the Trans-Nzoia district of northwestern Kenya. Philip shares the knowledge and broadened vision he has gained through studying in Kenya and internationally.
OTEPIC has grown two ‘community centers’ with demonstration gardens, integrated alternative technology and is now in the process of creating a new land-based community; a regional model for sustainable living, a research and training center for Kenya and beyond.
Kitale, KENYA
ORGANIC TECHNOLOGY EXTENTION AND PROMOTION OF
INITIATIVE CENTER
Main topics:
Mother-Base-Station of the Global Campus, Seeing the Picture of a Sustainable Region and Ecology
Odemira, PORTUGAL
TAMERA, PEACE
RESEARCH CENTER
Tamera was founded in Germany in 1978. In 1995 it moved to Portugal and today approximately 170 people live and work on a property of 330 acres. The original thought was to develop a non-violent life model for cooperation between human beings, animals and nature. Soon it became clear that the healing of love and human community is at the center of this work; sexuality, love and partnership need to be freed from lying and fear, for there can be no peace on Earth as long as there is war in love. The ecological and technological research of Tamera includes the implementation of a retention landscape for the healing of water and nature as well as a model for regional autonomy in energy and food.
Through the Global Campus and the Terra Nova School we are working within a global network on the social, ecological and ethical foundations for a new Earth – Terra Nova.
Main topics:
Water Retention Landscape, Children, Community Building, Integration in the Region, Ecology and Popular Education
The Project started in Torreon where violence reached an unbearable level and led the original group, working with children from the streets, to look for a deeper solution. Through studying Peace, they came to the decision to live in harmony with their environment and create conditions so that people can learn trust in natural cycles of life and heal their historical wounds. Since 2009 a profound connexion started with Tamera and the Global Campus. The group of 5 committed people bought a land in Chiapas, more adapted to combine study and practice. They generated spaces to deepen the basic questions of health, education, ecology (through healing the earth and water), bio-construction, sustainable energies, economy (local and solidaric), healing of interpersonal relationships and recovery of spiritual values.
Lately the group joined other local projects and a Permaculture project called Llum Ayni, thus creating Tierra Viva-Inla Kesh. In 2014 they bought a new land to create conditions for growth especially for the number of people committing in the project.
Chichihuistan, MEXICO
INLA KESH
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Demonstration pilgrimage Lisbon 2012
Positive demonstration during a pilgrimage in Lisbon, 2012 - “United for a New Culture“
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