Everything started in 2020 by putting a seed in the soil in the heart of the city. The corona lockdown in particular has shown us that the path towards nature is the right one, that we can eat healthy food ourselves and even share it. It is important for a person to have access to and the choice of an affordable, acceptable and healthy diet throughout his or her life. During the following days, we will work more about links between food poverty and health inequalities. The collective work done in the garden by an international group already inspired a substantial constructive change and resistance in Wuppertal. We have already accomplished to set up half of the garden. Zucchini, lettuce, rocket, tomatoes onions, aubergines, cucumbers, peas, beans, pumpkins are growing. Last week for the first time a Syrian friend visited us and said he normally doesn’t have too many friends in Wuppertal but in this peace garden he found a space where he can share his soil knowledge and experience about his hometown. Working with people of various backgrounds can enrich our lives. As a summary, for a constructive change the world needs to work together and should start a “peace process” which invites all parties for an international cooperation.Without such a process it may be difficult to strengthen individual and societal freedoms for flourishing, to curb climate change and biodiversity loss, reduce inequalities in income and wealth, end armed conflicts and avoid out-bursts of violence, strengthen the rule of law and accountable and effective public institutions, and shape digitalisation.In this regard, peace science can contribute the world’s transformation process by proving that micro-meso-macro level peacebuilding methods adequately can tackle injustice and help transformers to find solutions by sharing their knowledge with each other during the new forms of dialogue process.Thanks for being with us.
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