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We´re a growing community of about 120 coworkers and now 80 students, developing and realizing the concept of our three-year-long "Monte Cerro Peace Education".
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Below you find a summary of the basic ideas for "Monte Cerro":
The Project of the Healing Biotopes
The projects consists of the development of international and, as far as possible, autonomous communitarian organisms in which the living conditions for a violent-free future are researched and practically applied. It is the result of many years of research work in Germany, Switzerland and Portugal, where various groups worked on a concept that could respond to the world-wide globalisation of violence with new thoughts for a world-wide globalisation of peace. The new centres are defined as "Healing Biotopes" or "Peace Villages". The first has been in development for some years now in the future workshop ‘Tamera’, in Portugal. The next is planned for Israel/Palestine. What is to be developed in these centres is a type of "Biosphere 2", but no longer as a closed eco-system as in Arizona, but a new living system that has the ability to connect the living areas of human beings and nature, socio-sphere and biosphere, in a violent-free way, and to create the necessary inner (social, human, spiritual) preconditions within human communities.
The Experiment Monte Cerro
In the framework of this project the experiment "Monte Cerro" is to take place with 200 participants on the 331 acres site of the Healing Biotope I Tamera from 2006 on. Thereby, all questions of co-habitation – social organisation, roles of the genders, ecology, ethics etc. – will be regarded in a new way. It is about the questions: How do we create real life structures without fear and violence? Under what circumstances could a human culture of solidarity emerge? Are there possibilities for new solutions for the central issues of love, sexuality and partnership? How does trust emerge? How does happiness emerge? How does a new integration of the human world into the higher orders of life and creation emerge?
The Site
The Healing Biotope Tamera1 has 331 acres of land. In the beginning the premises of the Healing Biotope I Tamera had no liveable infra-structure, neither water, nor electricity, nor accommodation (except some ruins of unfinished buildings that could be used for construction). The initial research group consciously chose the most simple life conditions in order to develop new solution models from this basic situation. Today, about 120 people live on the site in provisional accommodation and will prepare the necessary infrastructure for the experiment.
The Basic Thoughts
First: The outer (economic, military) violence executed today against nature, peoples and the biosphere is connected with an inner (of the soul and the mind/spirit) corrosion and loss in the root of human life on earth. The ecological and the psychological/spiritual destruction are two sides of the same general problem: Only in looking at them at the same time can they be rightly understood and solved.
Second: The human problem deriving from this destruction is the consequence of a collective disease of civilisation and can, thus, not be solved on the individual level alone. The "therapy" requires the building up of new human and ecological life systems.
Third: A peace project can only affect as much peace in the outside as it has reached in its own human inner. Therefore, the outer work belongs to the inner work in the sense of self-change in all the participants.
Fourth: Inner healing requires a healing in the area of love, for there lies the greatest injuries (see the enclosure of the comprehensive project declaration).
Fifth: The necessary healing work requires a comprehensive co-operation between the human being and all creatures of nature, and a new embedding of the human society into the higher orders of life and Creation.
Therefore, new social organisms have to be established where these guidelines for a violent-free future are taken into consideration and applied in practice. This is not a private project but a project of humankind. The Experiment Monte Cerro is a further step on the path of realisation.
The Initiators
The Experiment has been in preparation for many years by a group of engaged and experienced people. The main initiators of the project are Sabine Lichtenfels, theologian, peace activist and author and Dieter Duhm, sociologist, psychoanalyst and progressive thinker of the 68´student movement. Rainer Ehrenpreis, physicist and musician is responsible for the present economy of the project.
Further responsible co-workers are: Paul Gisler, Barbara Kovats, Roland Luder, Gabriele Brüggemann, Oskar Eckmann, Vera Kleinhammes, Benjamin von Mendelssohn, Mara Vollmer, Thomas Lüdert, Madjana Geusen.
Research Areas
Building on the experiences we already have a number of research areas have been developed that have worked in co-operation for many years.
- peace work and conflict solution
- building of independent school for children and youth, with training places in the frame of peace work
- technology for an autonomous use of water and energy
- basic research for a new World picture
- healing work through ecology and geomantics
- sustainable and ecological architecture
- economy for future societies
Call for Support
For the plan to become a reality in its complete size Monte Cerro needs active and financial support. We are searching for hand workers and those who can lead building sites and working areas as listed below:
Ecologists, mainly in the area of gardening
Technologists, mainly for water and energy supply
Craft workers, mainly for construction (bricklayers, joiners, cabinet-makers, carpenters, street and path builders)
Architects, mainly with experience in clay and straw bale construction and in light architecture
Medical workers, mainly in the area of accident and emergency
Teachers and youth leaders
flexible office workers
For the finance of the project we are searching both private and official donors.
Further information
The more detailed explanations regarding the basic thoughts and aims of the project are described in the comprehensive project declaration which we will gladly send to you if you are interested.
It contains the following paragraphs:
Part II: The Global Idea
Part III: The Experiment Monte Cerro.
Part IV: Annex regarding the subjects of Love, Sexuality and Community
Dieter Duhm
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