The Global Campus Palestine was conceived to provide Palestinians with the opportunity to study regenerative ecological practices, as a first step towards establishing decentralized, autonomous models of how human beings can live sustainably.
For the last 10 years Tamera has been in contact with a growing network of peaceworkers in the Holy Land, who believe that life in this land can be different, based on trust and true coexistence. There have been meetings, pilgrimages, political actions, and many peaceworkers have come to the Tamera Peace Research Center to study ecology, economics, and political and social resilience.
Aida Shibli, the initiator of Global Campus Palestine: “The conflict in Israel-Palestine, even though unique and extreme, can be seen in the context of global suffering. Then we see that it is the same as other crisis areas: At the core of every conflict is a system of control, which is trying to convince us that we are powerless, that resources are limited, and that there are other people who are our enemies, whom we should not trust. This is the system of fear. By building local, self-sufficient, decentralized systems of living, where people can learn again how to grow their food, harvest their water, create their energy, and create social structures that are based on trust; we can step out of the mentality of scarcity, and into an empowered life where there is enough food, water, and energy for everyone... a life of freedom. We are all victims of a larger system that divided us in order to control us. This same system tells us that there is not enough land for everyone, and that we need to occupy the lands of others; it tells us there isn't enough food for all, that there aren't enough resources for all, and so on. By establishing local, decentralized systems of sustainable living, people can step out of the illusion that there is not enough.”
For the last 10 years Tamera has been in contact with a growing network of peaceworkers in the Holy Land, who believe that life in this land can be different, based on trust and true coexistence. There have been meetings, pilgrimages, political actions, and many peaceworkers have come to the Tamera Peace Research Center to study ecology, economics, and political and social resilience.
Aida Shibli, the initiator of Global Campus Palestine: “The conflict in Israel-Palestine, even though unique and extreme, can be seen in the context of global suffering. Then we see that it is the same as other crisis areas: At the core of every conflict is a system of control, which is trying to convince us that we are powerless, that resources are limited, and that there are other people who are our enemies, whom we should not trust. This is the system of fear. By building local, self-sufficient, decentralized systems of living, where people can learn again how to grow their food, harvest their water, create their energy, and create social structures that are based on trust; we can step out of the mentality of scarcity, and into an empowered life where there is enough food, water, and energy for everyone... a life of freedom. We are all victims of a larger system that divided us in order to control us. This same system tells us that there is not enough land for everyone, and that we need to occupy the lands of others; it tells us there isn't enough food for all, that there aren't enough resources for all, and so on. By establishing local, decentralized systems of sustainable living, people can step out of the illusion that there is not enough.”