(Translated by https://www.hiragana.jp/)
Tamera Healing Biotope 1 Global Campus
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Global Campus

world wide education initiative

As members of a global society each one of us arrives to the questions of how best can we contribute to creating not only a world without war, but also a world where we live in profound peace, in truth and trust, and intelligent compassion towards all beings that live on earth.
In the present world situation these questions have never been more timely or urgent than now. Everyday we are given numerous examples of how the world is no longer able to sustain the methods of living, thinking and acting that we, as human beings, have become so accustomed to.
The aim of the Global Campus is to provide a significant contribution to developing knowledge and experience that can actively answer those questions. Drawing on contemporary expertise in all-encompassing and sustainable themes the Global Campus offers a globally reaching education program that is relevant not only to our present situation, but most importantly, to our peaceful future. One part of its vision is that the Global Campus will affect and contribute to a major shift in the knowledge and experiential structures of humanity.


Creating Models

The uniqueness of the Global Campus is that the education programmes are based within intentional models of social living – actively developed and developing social models whose aims are to create inclusive, all-encompassing and nonviolent forms of living. These models are gradually being built up around the world and will provide a profound education in all areas of life: community knowledge, sustainable technologies, ecology, permaculture, conflict resolution, peaceful dialogue, and political spirituality. Particular focus is given to developing peaceful relations between the genders.

The first base camp of the Global Campus is the peace research centre Tamera which, in 2010, will provide peace education for approximately 200 international students. Parallel to this, the project is supporting education programmes and training in Colombia (San Jose de Apartado), Palestine (The Holy Land Trust), Brazil (Favela da Paz), United States and Europe (Switzerland, Germany, Portugal).

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Scholarship Fund

Each year the amount of peace workers from crisis and impoverished areas of the world who wish to take part in the education programmes offered at Tamera are greatly increasing. For many, the relevant, profound and complex education and training offer the possibility not only of a change in perspective for their own lives, but also very real solutions for their families, neighbourhoods, communities and organisations. Knowledge and training is empowerment, and for those who experience the very daily reality of conflict and violence it is also a matter of survival. Building autonomous models that do not destroy, but instead support the regeneration of our planet and us as human beings is an essential element.    
We thank all those peace workers who have committed themselves already to completing the Monte Cerro peace education.
To support more and more peace workers from crisis areas to take part in this education we need financial support.

How you can support

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How you can Support

There are many ways in which you can financial support a student to study at the Global Campus Tamera. This includes regular monthly or annual donations to general Scholarship Fund or donations to specific students.
For more information please contact the coordinator of the Scholarship Fund:
Kate Bunney: klbunney.igf(at)tamera.org

Please scroll down to see those international students that we feature at the moment.

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Favela da Paz

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April 2010

Favela da Paz

"Many of my friends don't exist any more. I'm searching for something more attractive than violence, so that the youth no longer take part in the drug war",
says Claudio Miranda about the reason of his work.
He comes from Jardim Ângela, one of the favelas (Slums) of São Paulo, which the UN declared in the 90es as one of the most brutal neighbourhoods of the world. More than twenty years ago he began to gather friends to make music with cans, at this time real instruments were unreachable. Today they are running the successful band Poesia Samba Soul and a cultural project which offers hundreds of young people the possibility to learn 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. The band members themselves teach. They show young people a way to express themselves through arts, music and poetry instead through violence.

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April 2010

Peace Community of San José de Apartadó

"Every human being has a right to learn, to acquire knowledge"

Since 2001 Tamera has been cooperating with the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó. This community of about 1500 people is dedicated to non-violent resistance against the oppression they suffer mainly from parties interested in exploiting their lands and being involved in the armed conflict of Colombia. Tamera also supports them to provide education and training in non-violent peace work for young people in order to avoid their migration to the cities.The peace community´s committment is such that they have been rewarded the Aachen Peace Prize of Germany in 2007 and were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in the same year. more...

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May 2010

The Holy Land Trust, Palestine

The Holy Land Trust is a not-for-profit organization established in Bethlehem in 1998. Holy Land Trust (HLT) seeks to empower the community through mobilizing its strengths and resources in order to address the challenges of the present and create real opportunities for the future. Through a commitment to the principles of nonviolence, HLT seeks to develop spiritual, pragmatic, and strategic approaches that will empower the Palestinian community to resist all forms of oppression, and engage this same community in making the Holy Land be what it is supposed to be: a global model and pillar of understanding, respect, justice, equality and peaceful coexistence.

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