The weekend was dedicated to portugal and many friends and neighbours visited the Summer University for this two days.

Read More: Portugal Day

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During the portuguese weekend of the Summer University around 500 people embraced the lake - giving thanks to the water.

See more images: Embracing the Lake

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"The core question of the movement is - How to built sustainable communities that give a positive answer to the suffering on Earth..."

"In the name of Grace we step beyond boundaries. 

We do not fight against the system but create new systems."

"When i walk in the name of Grace i try to end war where ever i am and i understand more and more the means by which it can be ended..."

"Grace demads self knowledge."

Download the complete speech: Sabine Lichtenfels 300709

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Vera Kleinhammes held the opening speech on the idea of the Global Grace Village:

"I know that the question of survival is no longer a private issue..."

"We need a new concept for the inhabitants of our planet."

"True peace is the revolution of our whole style of living..."

"How do we have to change our living to create a peaceful world?"

"The power of the new peace work comes from being connected to the higher forces of creation."

Download the complete speech: Vera Kleinhammes 270709

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Lama Thubten Wangchen and Sabine Lichtenfels during the opening ceremony

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On the evening of the 28th of July, the 15th International Summer Univesity started, with an opening ceremony in the Stone Circle in Tamera.

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We need beauteous birth not death.

We need life not a knife,

we need bread not bombs.

We need no armies to talk to each other. 

John Devaraj from India will come to the Summer University and perform a theater play with children and young people on the Hiroshima Day August 6th.

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The Black Shadow and the Riddle of the Princess.

"...an articulate, graphic showing of global problems. The kids creatively decide to take a stand -- bind together and, rested in love and fun, feel empowered to work zealously for change with enough love and action everyone can be used for. This is a revolutionary manifesto for today, yet free of dogma. This play should go everywhere! Thank you School and Theater." - Clown-Doctor Patch Adams on the Theatre Piece 

The piece by the Place of the Children will be performed at the Summer University. Children of Tamera will factiliate theatre workshops for children and adults during the Summer University.

Before the Summer University, there will be a seminar for children and adults:

Children, Community and Theatre, July 19-28, 2009

(There is a 25 % discount for those who attend the seminar AND the Summer University.)

Starhawk, activist for global justice, spiritual feminist, permaculture teacher and brillant writer of political essays and novels, will come to the Summer University. Some of Tamera coworkers and students have a long friendship with Starhawk and look forward to see her get to know Tamera.

Attendee: Fernando Quiguanas, 19

Today we received beautiful news: Fernando Quiguanas will take part in the Summer University and in the whole Youth Summer. He is a young leader of the indigenous resistance movement in Colombia. We came to know him during the GRACE Pilgrimage and the Global Campus meeting in San José de Apartadó, in October 2008. Having grown up in the Nasa tribe, Colombia's biggest and most powerful indigenous tribe, Fernando has faced the cruelty of the civil war. His grandfather, a leader of the community, has taught him the tribal tradition and the knowledge of the connection to Mother Earth. His dream to liberate Mother Earth from possession and violence. In an interview he said: "I as a young person who has contact to the youth from the cities as well, know that a change is needed.

We confront a massive wall. We as Nasa people must follow the way of the elders. Every young person´s life has its own unique sense.

Resistance is our way of life. The resistance will exist until the sun will go out, for the spirits of the day and the night are with us."

Imagine, all media all over world would bring the message:

WAR IS OVER!

Soldiers and paramilitaries, banks and corporations, whaling ships and timber companies ? all of them could no longer fight. Even love partners would no longer be able to hurt each other. What would we do? Do we see the possibility of a future without war? Do we know the vision of a world, where human beings are able to trust and love each other without fear?

After three years of "Monte Cerro" experiment, the Peace Research Center Tamera invites peace workers worldwide to the Summer University "Global Grace Village - Creating Models for a Future without War", at July 29 - August 7, 2009. We want to use these ten days to envision a healthy planet. With global crises overlapping, it is becoming evident that we are close to facing a paradigm shift; so let's get together for a think-tank and the vision of a future worth living!

Warm welcome in Tamera!

Global Grace Village

Creating Models for a Future without War
Summer University Tamera / Portugal July 29th to August 7th 2009

Welcome!

Survival is no longer a private matter, it has become a global issue.

This is an invitation to take part in a think tank and to build a vision for a future without war.

Planet Earth was meant to be Paradise. However, people seem to have forgotten it. Today we live in a time where extensive parts of humanity live in misery and destruction and ever more beings experience comparable fate on an every day basis, so it has become a question of survival to remember the grand original dream of a healthy planet, home to everything that lives.

Do we know our true power? Do we know what a small group of people following a clear vision of the future can change? Those who want to end war need a vision for peace.

After three years of peace research of the Monte Cerro Peace Experiment, Tamera Peace Research Center invites to a summer of vision building.

The vision of a Global Grace Village

How do future societies that are not based on fear, domination, and violence, but instead built on trust look like? Which kind of technological, ecological, architectural, and social structures will societies, resonating with the cosmic order of life, display? How will future societies, where children fully trust their parents again and where lovers never have to leave each other ever again, come into being? Which professions will they have and how will young people learn how to invest their strength for peace?



We call this vision of peace Global Grace Village. We assume that when the first planetary peace model is fully realized in all its depths, it will be a decisive contribution to a future without war.



Next steps of realization: Peace Research Village Middle East

Currently a group of Israelis, Palestinians, and Internationals are preparing the concrete construction of the first peace model. They will present themselves and their project. After the Summer University they will head off to the Middle East and check if the first Peace Research Village can be built there. We will also host representatives from the Peace Village of San José de Apartadó, Colombia, as well as many other guests.

Visionaries, scientists, youth activists, love adventurers:

With global crises overlapping, it is becoming evident that we are close to facing a paradigm shift; so let´s get together and learn to SEE!


More Events:

Youth Future Village - July 18th to August 31st.

Gathering of young leaders from many countries in a 6-week intensive workshop. The main focus will be on ecological and social sustainability, community, education in peace professions, and on political knowledge and actions to make our dreams reality: a future without war.

Following the Tamera Summer University: Vision Quest with Ofer Israeli - August 12th to the 17th

A vision quest is a sacred ritual for the healing of people and Earth. The core of it will be to spend four days and nights alone in the wilderness.

The Healing Biotope 1 - Tamera

Watch it: The Summer University Video