Setting up Peace villages in U.S and Canada
article by Rishi Prabhakar
(c) Facebook group "Peace Village, Ottawa"
What are peace villages?
These are complexes setup outside different cities for creating spaces for community living based on generosity and openness.
They will be places where there will be plenty of work for hundreds of people to do Organic Agriculture, run educational institutions with accent on joyful education for children. The school also will act as production centers for many artistic and high technology products. They will run as model municipalities with means for grass roots participation in the affairs of the community through parliaments consisting of 36 families or 36 members at any level of the hierarchy
Size of the village
The size of the village will start with about 3000 acres of land expandable to about 30,000 acres.
How is it to be financed and operated
The land will be owned by a company initially formed for the purpose. There will be a board of directors who will initiate the project with finances. About half of the land will be operated as a common facility land. Other half will be operated as individually owned plots by the directors who will sell to others as housing plots.
Directors will slowly pass on the operations of the common facilities zone to the municipality which includes all the members who own the land in the municipality. This transition may take up to 15 years.
It will start operating as any municipality after the setting up period.
Starting issues
We require co-operation from the county in the following matters:
1. Classification of the land for development.
a. Some areas are for school and art workshops and university.
b. Some areas for parks and recreation.
c. some areas for shopping complex
d. Some areas housing
e. Some areas for roads
f. some areas for industry
g. Some areas for resorts, hotels, health complex and community offices
1. Classification of the land for development.
a. Some areas are for school and art workshops and university.
b. Some areas for parks and recreation.
c. some areas for shopping complex
d. Some areas housing
e. Some areas for roads
f. some areas for industry
g. Some areas for resorts, hotels, health complex and community offices
Purchasing Land
Normally land becomes very valuable around such developments and makes it very expensive to expand later. So we need to start as big as possible initially with future requirements in mind.
Investors in land and development has to be duly paid for in the process.
Benefits to the County
The Peace village will operate with the motive of making the county rich in many ways:
a. Provide employment for anyone desiring to participate as a partner in the business - shifting the attitude from an employment seeker to an Entrepreneurs.
b. Providing love and care for the elderly by providing community participation in schools . They will be with children in teaching and play activities and learn many crafts to make the place beautiful. They will be honored for their wisdom and provided an opportunity to lead from the back.
c. Women will be certified and trained in child upbringing and given special privileges as mothers. They will be bringing up children with the active assistance of other members and community members who eat together like in a Kibbutz. They cook collectively and lessen the burden o cooking. Each small community of 36 families will have their own spaces for agriculture, collective residence, collective day care for small children and Kitchen. Young Mothers will spend time mothering, playing and educating the child rather than going to work for earning.
d. Every one in the village will be supported by a group of 36 to grow and be a useful participant. We are living as a large family with intimate relationships and support so everyone is counted and made important. Each group is a local parliament in itself and self supporting with care for all. They interact with other groups through representation in higher bodies. All these bodies at any level of hierarchy will not exceed 36 members for the sake of making sure that everyone's voice is heard.
Benefits to the country
Social security has become a topic of great concern and expense.
Issues like unemployment, uneven distribution of wealth, Health care, child care, economic development are eating at the roots of democracies with no solutions at national levels.
Issues like unemployment, uneven distribution of wealth, Health care, child care, economic development are eating at the roots of democracies with no solutions at national levels.
These issues have to be handled at as small or micro level as possible.
Big parliaments where people are using votes rather than wisdom and care are the downfall of large unworkable present day democratic systems. Occupy wall street is the beginning of a grass roots revolution for a more sane system of governance at grass roots.
In the peace village, forums of 36 does most of the job at a micro level. What requires a bigger job is referred to the next small body which never exceeds 36 members.
A group of 36 families can easily see to the welfare of all its members. They are big enough to take care collectively of all their children, aged, young and vibrant. Nuclear families of today are too weak to nurture a child. As children go out, elders are left helpless. The present scenario only creates lonely uncared persons at all levels leading to a society of depressed.
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