Urban gardening Peace Project

Under development by Burcu Eke-Schneider

The Urban Gardening Peace Project is located on the grounds of the Alevi community of Wuppertal (AKM) and works closely with several actors in the hearth of the city.The community garden invites different cultures and actors to establish a peaceful relationship with each other and at the same time to resume the dialogue with nature.The vision of the pilot project is to create in the sacred place a nature-based conflict resolution model while facilitating intercultural knowledge exchange processes.Thus, this creative "Peacebuilding" project has a cultural and social dimension as well as a scientific approach to reduce the power of the drivers of injustice in the context of sustainable urban development which gives us a chance to understand the root causes of problems at the micro level and it is an important intervention to prevent continuous violence.It is possible to develop a common understanding that works with inclusiveness.

First, it can apply an inclusive method of just urban transition that respects the diversity of cultural backgrounds and ethnicity. Secondly, it can change the behaviour and attitudes of those involved towards an environmentally friendly life. Finally, it can convey the new meaning of "collective struggle for a common future" in different languages, cultures and sacred places.

✌️🌱☮️We are a group of peace thinkers..

Inclusivity

We cordially invite everyone to participate in our peace project, regardless of age, gender, political views or origin. Previous knowledge of gardening or peace work is not required.

Strengthening of women

We would like to encourage women in particular to participate in the project and further strengthen their social significance. It is important to us to include their creativity and their great collective knowledge about plants and seeds, medicinal properties etc.

Peace

We are determined to create and maintain peace. The framework we have created should be understood as a protected space. We do not tolerate defamation or violence towards other people, neither in language nor in behaviour.

Climate Justice

In our peace project we feel obliged to contribute to more climate justice in an urban environment. We would like to contribute to the reflection on a more sustainable and just life and to a more conscious behaviour.

Biodiversity

The Peace Garden is intended to contribute to the greatest possible biodiversity in urban areas. Nature is a network of the most diverse forms of life, everything is connected with everything else. With the Peace Garden, we respect the dependence of humans on nature as part of nature.

Workshop Examples in our Peace Garden :

Besides the first exchange about plants and sustainable cultivation methods, a space should be created that actively offers solutions for the inclusion of transformative urban development. A first example for this purpose, the multilingual "Nature and Art" workshop with the opera house of the city of Wuppertal,which illustrates how art and nature are connected and how the citizens can think more creative in an urban realm. Another example is the lecture from a feminist expert about "Women and nature in the context of social inequality of the sexes", which, in addition to the representation of women's roles before different cultural contexts, ways and perspectives out of social inequality, and to transform the knowledge in a real labor( * https://wupperinst.org/en/a/wi/a/s/ad/4947/)environment first in Wuppertal. In this process we created new identities to facilitate all actors in an open intercultural community peace garden which is a protected place of encounter and exchange beyond the city district and thoughts. For this purpose peace garden is a social-spiritual-political free zone in the cultural centre of the Alevi community.

The Third side approach with new identities:

An Avantgardenist is a person who works in nature to establish an agro-ecological relationship between plants, people and animals - especially between women and nature, who are experimentally, radically or transformatively involved in reference to art, culture and society. An eco-mediator is a person who establishes dialogues between different urban actors and using 'nature' as a constructive tool.

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Contact Info : wuppertalforpeace@gmail.com

Urban gardening Peace Project

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