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Second Peace Education Meeting at the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó in Colombia

Second Peace Education Meeting at the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó in Colombia

By IGP- INSTITUT FOR GLOBAL PEACE WORK
http://www.sos-sanjose.org/index.php?id=97&backPID=97&tt_news=171

„Creating Models for the Future“
Second Peace Education Meeting at the Peace Community
of San José de Apartadó in Colombia
within the framework of the „Global Campus“ (Tamera)
and the „Universidad de Resistencia de Colombia“
from February 24th to March 5th, 2010

Dear friends, supporters and interested parties,

On February 21st, 2010, the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó invites for participation in a commemorial celebration. Exactly five years ago, eight of their comrades and council members lost their lives in a massacre. It is important to the community to honour and to remember these human beings who so courageously and strongly had commited themselves to life and peace.
Our remembrance of them melts together with a decisive commitment for a different future.
Together with the Peace Community de San José de Apartadó we offer an educational meeting following the commemoration days (February 19-22) in the framework of the Global Campus (Tamera) led by Sabine Lichtenfels and the Universidad de Resistencia of Colombia. This event will take place from Februay 24th to March 5th and will continue to deepen the first and successful Peace Education Meeting which was held in October 2008. This time the education will address itself mainly to the younger generation.


The content of the education among other topics comprises the following:

- social competence, conflict resolution and community development
- autonomy in health care and alternative medicine
- basic application of solar technology
- culture and art as elements of non-violent resistance

Young people from different parts of Colombia and from other countries, from peace villages, from indigenous communities, resistance groups and different initiatives against violence and war have been invited.

Peace education for young people ranks high on Tamera's priorities of tasks.We want more and more youth to get to know viable alternatives to the globalisation of violence and to become familiar with professions which allow them to invest their power and drive into a future without war.

These educational meetings are not financed by any of the known public or state agencies. All teachers offer their knowledge free of charge. Nevertheless expenses occur, i.e. travelling costs and food & lodging for the teachers, scholarships for colombian and international youth as well as the costs for the organisation of the meeting on-site in San José de Apartadó.

We therefore cordially invite all of you, friends and interested parties, to support this meeting with a donation, be it small or large.
Investing love, knowledge and the necessary financial means into the younger generation of today may be the most important contribution we all can make – and a satisfying one at that!
Please do not hesitate to donate!

Together we move ahead - with gratitude for your friendship and solidarity,

The Peace Research Community of Tamera


For added information please contact Andrea Regelmann info@sos-sanjose.org
More about the background of Tamera www.tamera.org and the Peace Community of San José www.cdpsanjose.org and, www.sos-sanjose.org

For donations to the GRACE Foundation in favor of the Global Campus
in Euro:

Bank: Raiffeisenbank, Zürich, Switzerland
Account holder: GRACE- Stiftung zur Humanisierung der Gelder
Account No.:: 92188.69
IBAN: CH9881487000009218869
BIC: RAIFCH22
Clearing no. 81487
(PC-Account of the Bank:)
Reason for transfer: Global Campus Colombia

in Swiss Francs:
Bank: Raiffeisenbank Zürich
Account holder: GRACE –Stiftung zur Humanisierung der Gelder
Account no.: 92188.56
IBAN: CH6181487000009218856
BIC: RAIFCH22
Clearing no.: 81487
(PC-account of the banc)
Reason for transfer: Global Campus Colombia

Thank you for your awareness !

sent by
Peter Koll
Tamera Team

http://www.sos-sanjose.org/index.php?id=97&backPID=97&tt_news=171

see also :
http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=658&L=0

January 17, 2010 | 3:39 PM Comments  0 comments



Tamera Peace Research Center – Retrospection 2009

Inspiration, Vision building and establishing

http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=669&L=0

Tamera gives thanks for an extraordinarily rich year 2009. It was a year in which one could learn how inspiration leads to vision building, and how a vision gathers different forces to achieve a common goal. In many fields there have been new initiatives, growth, and decisions. At the end of the year there was a pilgrimage which connected us in a new way with the country of Portugal, the Testfield inauguration of the SolarVillage, which drew a lot of public attention, and the Global Grace Day, which connected many young people in the world in a spirit of a new beginning and reconciliation. A review.

2009 in Tamera began with an intensive community time. For four months, the five pillars – the name of the working departments – lived very close together, and based their work on the basic values of community and the experience of trust, truth and mutual support. The end of these four months was at the same time the closing of the three-year Monte Cerro Peace Education.

http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=669&L=0

January 4, 2010 | 8:23 AM Comments  0 comments



Learning Holzer Permaculture - One-year training cycle 2010/11 with Sepp Holzer

One-year training cycle of Holzer permaculture at Tamera Peace Research Center

The forthcoming one-year training in Holzer’s Permaculture includes both the widely-applicable basic knowledge and specific forms of its practical application adjusted to the climatic conditions of southern Europe. The course will teach and apply in practice the knowledge that results from Sepp Holzer’s experience. The training will also convey an impression of the philosophy and the basic ideas of the Peace Research Community of Tamera and give an insight into the work of the “Global Campus”.
Each situation includes the solutions to its problems

http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=645&L=0

For each landscape, in every climatic zone, says Sepp Holzer, whether in a fertile river valley or in a moderate climate, whether in the Tundra or in the desert, there is always the possibility to cooperate with nature, to guide her and to cultivate something that suits the land and its inhabitants. In this context Holzer’s Permaculture is not a method which offers the same procedure for every situation. On the contrary, its core lies in the observation of nature, in putting ourselves in the place of other living beings and through this understanding from within, realizing which are the healing measures that make sense in the given situation. Sepp Holzer: “The book of nature always tells the truth; we just have to learn to read it.”

The Curriculum of Holzer‘s Permaculture will include the following themes:Landscape design: terrace building; building 'huegelbeds' and raised beds, water gardens, earth-bottom ponds, dry and wet biotopes, microclimates, etc; agro-forestry integrating trees, bushes, and shrubs into agricultural land use; building biotopes with fishes; water plant nursery; animal breeding and fruit and medicinal herb cultivation.

Holzer’s Permaculture relies on his decades-long experience and practice. Ever since he took over the former family farm, the Krameterhof in Salzburger Lungau, Austria, in 1962, Sepp Holzer has continuously been developing his own method of agriculture.

Holzer’s Permaculture shows alternative methods of land use in extreme areas (from alpine regions such as the Krameterhof in Lungau to dry, desert-like areas in Spain and Portugal) and deals with the re-cultivation of areas that are damaged by intensive agriculture; with catastrophe prevention to protect against flooding, erosion or storms. It includes planning of holistic projects as well as the creation of landscapes in which to experience nature. It also includes the study and integration of alternative energy systems. Special focus is brought to the water household of the landscape, for “Water is Life!” Another important element is the regulation of so-called “pests” – i.e. the regulation of the population of damage-causing organisms. It is about the development of self-sustainable systems, a symbiotic way of farming which can be the base for a new kind of self-sufficiency and new independence for the human being.

Objective
The goal of the courses is to learn the basic working methods and areas of application of Holzer’s Permaculture in practice, to develop the knowledge about relationships in nature and to deeply study the worldwide need for ecological healing and the actual possibility of building subsistence economies.

Duration
One training cycle will consist of five courses through the year. Each course will last six days (thirty seminar days). To deepen the knowledge and for direct practice we offer practical training periods, lasting one to three weeks after each seminar during which the knowledge learned can be translated into practice and applied in the current project. (Please contact us for the exact schedule).

The dates of the training cycle:

March 13-18, 2010 June 7-12, 2010 September 2-7, 2010 November 24-29, 2010 April 2-7, 2011

Location
The seminars will take place predominantly in Tamera, South Portugal. We will also visit nearby projects and accompany them; we will visit other farms that are working according to the principles of permaculture or have asked for consultation for a change from another form of farming to permaculture.

Speakers and Teachers

Sepp Holzer

During a large part of the training Sepp Holzer will teach and accompany you. For his qualifications and his C.V. please refer to his homepage: www.krameterhof.at and the numerous publications of and about Sepp Holzer.

Ecology Team of Tamera
The subjects of general ecology, and the philosophy and world view of the peace community Tamera will be taught by the ecology team of Tamera. Members of the team: Bernd Müller, Silke Paulick, Silke Klüver, Thomas Preisser, Lilian von Wussow, Pancho Mockenhaupt and others, as well as guest speakers.

Training Costs
The fee for the training is 2800 Euro, plus 20% IVA. This results in a total annual fee of 3360 Euro. Guest speakers' presentations will not be charged extra. Food & lodging are not included in the seminar fees.

Food and Lodging
Simple lodging in Tamera (sleeping rooms with 3-5 beds each. During the summer months, sleeping in tents is possible) with vegan and vegetarian food. The fee per day and person is EUR 30. A room may be available in the Guest House or in a Guest House of a neighbouring village at an additional charge.

Language
The course is offered in German language with translation into English and with translation into Russian, Portuguese or Spanish according to demand and availability.

Apprenticeship in Nature
The issues we will deal with in class are going to be applied in practice as much as possible! What we want is to teach a substantial practical knowledge that you can later apply and really use.

The Global Campus

Beside developing the described curriculum, Tamera is developing a “Global Campus”. Thus course participants will also get an insight into and contact with the necessity of ecological aid in the most various areas of the world. They will get to know peace initiatives that work in a similar direction, and opportunities for cooperation can develop, which will be integrated in the training.

It is important for us that participants become able to start from the most varied given situations.

Certificate
After successfully finishing the one-year-training in Holzer’s Permaculture, participants receive a course certificate to confirm their training in the basics of Holzer’s Permaculture in Southern Europe.

The Basic Thoughts of the Place – Tamera, Portugal

„If we wanted to survive the ecological and social crisis which we have brought about we would be required to engage ourselves in completely new and dramatic community undertakings.“
(Lynn Margulis)

The ecological situation of planet Earth is dramatic. The destruction of rain forests, oceans and ecological systems, the expansion of deserts, the daily disappearance of animal species, hunger and the beginning of wars for water are all symptoms and direct consequences of the way we humans live and operate economically which has lost all integration within the cycles of nature.

Modern human beings treat the soil, the plants, the water and the animals in such a dissociated way and with total lack of contact, as if they have forgotten what life is and how it needs to be treated.

Nature answers – storms and floods are only the beginning of an extensive climate catastrophe, which already has become a painful reality for people in many places on the globe. Forecasts for the Iberian peninsula are clear: Spain and Portugal will become deserts if we do not act now.

The coming changes will be drastic and affect all areas of life. People are not prepared for the extent of the changes ahead of them. But does this mean that these turmoils are necessary along with panic, wars and violence? Or, will we have created special places by then where we can learn on a global scale how to handle conflicts and to solve them peacefully, how to produce energy in a decentralized way, how to treat nature and earth in a way to produce healthy food and water abundantly? This kind of knowledge already exist in many places. However, often it is still too unusual to be applied yet. The main things missing are: networks of dissemination, the inter-linking of this knowledge, its factual application in practice, at least in an exemplary way at some places in the world, as well as educational facilities to teach the youth of the next generation.

Tamera is an educational center and an experimental field for the development of Peace Research Villages and their worldwide distribution. In an exemplary approach, we research and study living possibilities for the human being to be re-integrated into the whole of Creation, where separation is overcome at all levels – separation between human beings, between generations, between fields of knowledge, separation from nature and from the spiritual source. The creation of such Peace Research Villages - or so called Healing Biotopes - develop, combine and manifest knowledge and methods for approaches in the fields of technology, ecology and energy production, for conflict resolution and community building and for spiritual life practice and ecological architecture.

Currently, about 160 people from various parts of the world are living and studying in Tamera. Among other projects, an energy-autonomous model village, the “SolarVillage” is under development: an ecologically and socially sustainable model settlement that can be copied and applied in areas of the world with intensive sun radiation.

The work and the research of the Austrian permaculture specialist Sepp Holzer, his knowledge of cooperation with nature, his intuition and experience with the production of natural foodstuffs and with the revitalization and healing of the land, we consider a promising and very central part of the research for the development of Peace Research Villages. His work in Valdepajares del Tajo in the Extremadura region in Spain in 2007 gives rise to much hope that something similar is also possible here in Portugal.

Meanwhile, hope has turned into experience. At Tamera, the water landscape as proposed by Sepp Holzer is becoming a reality, and already after two growth periods, the possibility of revitalizing desolate ground has proven successful. Wild animals are adapting to this new living environment, fruit trees flourish in the wide shore zones as well as a great variety of vegetables, herbs and medicinal plants.

Tamera is an example for Portugal and indeed for all of Southern Europe both in terms of its beauty and of the degree of ecological destruction with which it has to cope. The ecological healing and revitalization project for this place can and will set impulses for the entire region. Exemplary solutions which are functioning at this Peace Research Center will be transferred to the home countries of the Tamera students and are intended to be applied there in the development of further Peace Research Villages. How could the planet look if, to begin with, in each of its countries and in varying vegetation zones at least one site would exist where the knowledge, the seeds and the variety of nature would be tended to and cared for as a shining example which would serve whole regions as a trigger for innovation? We invite interested and committed people to use the training in Holzer's Permaculture to acquire the knowledge which is the base for this plan.

Ecological Content of the Curriculum:

General Ecology
Building ecosystems, micro-climate zones, cycles of matter, symbioses of interaction, reading the book of nature.

Aquaculture
Water household (water gardens, ponds and pond culture), building water retention spaces.

Landscape Design
“Huegelbeds” & raised beds, terraces, stone setting & positioning, dry and wet biotopes. The application of these elements based on purpose and need.

Agroforestry
Integration of trees, bushes and shrubs into agricultural use. Forest as an ecosystem, forest development (to heal the cork oak monoculture).

Plant Cultures
Healing/medicinal plants, fruit and berry bushes, grain, forage crops, seed production, plant protection (distracting plantations, sun and winter protection, particularly winter protection for plants that need warmth).

Animal Husbandry
Building open stables and fences, keeping of animals on paddocks, feeding, animals' health; building habitat for wild animals.

Renaturation and Recultivation
Water household, soil regeneration (mixed cultures, green manure, mulching), catastrophe protection.

Urban Design
Vertical gardens for “earth citizens without land”, urban free space design, herb cultures, irrigation and water drainage gardens (as house gardens, therapeutic gardens).

Using Machines in Permaculture

Information and registration: solarvillage(at)tamera.org
More about Sepp Holzer
More about the Lakescape of Tamera

December 8, 2009 | 2:24 AM Comments  0 comments



Connecting You to Communities of Action - WiserEarth

WiserEarth is a free online community space connecting the people, nonprofits and businesses working toward a just and sustainable world .
As I just became a featured editor of the month November, want to share with you this wonderful networking possibility.
Enjoy and explore this database of 100.000 NGOs and projects worldwide. Groups and members working for a just and sustainable peaceful world.
Don´t forget to join, present your project, and share with your friends.
Best regards
Peter
http://www.wiserearth.org/article/175d67f8dbfc3f5883c69d03b6a42350
http://www.wiserearth.org/
http://solarvillage.tamera.org/presentation/

November 16, 2009 | 5:51 AM Comments  0 comments



Global Grace Day - worldwide - Nov 9th 2009
Translations available in: English (original) | French | Spanish | Italian | German | Portuguese | Swedish | Russian | Dutch | Arabic

"Grace is the power that may overcome all violence because it is at home in the hearts of all human beings.” Sabine Lichtenfels

The Global Grace Day is a special initiative by a growing movement of individuals and groups all over the world. The movement cannot and should not be identified with a specific group or organization; it is an expanding movement of those who have started to develop the quality of Grace in their hearts. You will recognize them not by their signs and signals, but by the way they behave, act and talk.

A text of meditation, written and distributed by Sabine Lichtenfels, peace activist and initiator of the Grace movement is at the center of the different activities and meditations which take part worldwide every year on the same day. This text expresses that we, as humankind, can no longer accept the inner and outer walls which we built between people, between lovers, and between human beings and nature.

Various groups around the world interpret the day in their own ways once they have begun to understand the quality of GRACE in their hearts.

Why 9th of November?

Throughout history, the 9th of November has seen both the force of cruelty and the power of liberation. On the 9th of November, 1938, known as the “Crystal Night,” hundreds of synagogues were burned down in Germany and more than 30,000 Jewish people were deported to concentration camps. On the 9th of November, 1989, the Berlin wall, acting as a barrier between two ideologies, was finally taken down.

Many peace movements around the world now use the 9th of November as a day of opportunity to create a common peace power that no longer allows cruelty and separation between humans and on our planet.

Whoever wants to join the actions of the Global Grace Day initiative is invited to do so and to contact info(at)global-grace-day(dot)com

Meditation text (in various languages) and more information at: http://www.global-grace-day.com
http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=643&L=0

Thank you for your awareness,
thank you for spreading the invitation,
thank you for supporting peace !

sent by
Peter Koll
Tamera Team

October 31, 2009 | 3:08 AM Comments  0 comments



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