Los
Mulatos: In the rainforest of Colombia, a base of planetary future
community is created.
The cooperation of the peace village San
José de Apartadó and the peace research center Tamera
in Portugal.
The peace community San José
de Apartadó is a rural community of about 1500 inhabitants
living in the north of Colombia. They do not belong to any
organisation, do not carry weapons, and are bound together through an
unswerving ethic of peace. Yet they are in the way of the government
and multinationals who want to push forward globalisation, and are
therefore being brutally fought by the state. In the past thirteen
years they have lost nearly 200 community members who were killed by
the military, paramilitary and guerilla. In December 2009 a core
group moved uphill to the site where Luis Eduardo Guerra, one of
their leaders, was murdered. Here they want to build a place for
planetary peace work. To do this, the forest needed to be cleared and
materials brought up the mountain. In spite of the most difficult
conditions, in two months of construction they completed a new centre
for about 100 pilgrims to participate in an event of the “Global
Campus” in February 2010. The Global Campus is an international
university founded by the Peace Centre Tamera in Portugal for the
education of peace workers around the world. ...more- slides and diaries of the Global Campus 2010
- Global Campus: education and scholarship fund
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