Tamera Peace Research & Education Center in Portugal

The Association for a Humanitarian World (AMH) is a non-profit Cultural Association, founded in 2002 and based in Relíquias, Municipality of Odemira, with the objective of “promoting educational activities, conducting seminars, and cultural and scientific events that promote tolerance and understanding among peoples and all living beings of our planet.”

As an integral entity of the Tamera project, AMH is primarily dedicated to applied research in Ecology and Technology – and the subsequent dissemination of results in events/seminars – on the topics of Water, Ecological Agriculture, and Alternative Energies. To better understand the scope of activities developed by AMH, a brief description of the Tamera project is presented below, followed by a deeper exploration of AMH’s activities.

Brief Description of the Tamera Project – International Research and Education Center for Peace

The Healing Biotope I, Tamera, is a peace research project aimed at creating a model for a future society without violence among human beings, animals, and nature.

The project began in 1978 in Germany and moved to the Alentejo – Portugal in 1995 with the foundation of Tamera. Currently, there are 192 people dedicated to the project who are also connected with a growing international network and with partner projects in Israel-Palestine, Colombia, Brazil, Kenya, among other countries.

Since its inception, the project’s focus has been on how human beings, from all cultures and religions, could live together so that peace could emerge among them.

The research themes of community life and peace education, as well as the establishment of a cooperation network with projects of similar purposes around the world, are the responsibility of the G.R.A.C.E. Association. Among the various ongoing projects, the Global Campus, Defend the Sacred, the School of Hope, as well as community education actions and actions for global peace stand out.

Due to the fact that Natural Resources are finite and often at the origin of social conflicts, research in this area is essential. Thus, the ecological and technological research questions of Tamera are handled by the Association for a Humanitarian World (AMH) and include the implementation of a Water Retention Landscape (for the restoration of the hydrological cycle and ecosystems), as well as a model for regional self-sufficiency – at the level of energy supply (research in renewable energies, especially solar energy) and nutrition (organic agriculture, permaculture, and reforestation).