Raison d'être
Many of the imbalances that face the world today –including climate forcing, war, mass migrations— follow from the disembodiment of our daily life from ecocycles and biorythms alike; the disconnection of community and its customary norms from its physical geography and the attendant alien cosmovisions that guide us. Our present day is the result of a constellation of contingent historical processes –colonizations, enclosures, industrializations, mass consumption.
Should we be serious about redressing this plethora of imbalances we must conscientiously and concertedly endeavour to redefine human tread on mother Tellus. In ancient Greece, the agora was the place in sovereign city-states where populations gathered for assembly, discussion and provision of basic needs. In an attempt to retrieve the agora spirit –in our case free of either gender or wage-based discriminations— the Eco Pax Mundi Agora Network has been created.
There are two pillars on which an Eco Pax Mundi Agora builds. One is education, reflexivity; the other a place of exchange for basic –and thus non-industrial— needs. An Eco Pax Mundi Agora hosts in an interactive manner three cultural institutions. The organic farm, the 'universitas' and the marketplace.
Given North-South imbalances that follow from the colonial incursions into what is now Latin America, Asia and Africa, a Northern Eco Pax Mundi Agora is paired off with an Eco Pax Mundi Southern Agora. The Northern has a great deal to learn from the Southern when it comes to the high level of embodiment of their daily practices. The Northern Agora, on the other hand, is more prone to co-engage with the Southern Agora in political activities geared at dissolving the legacy of colonialism that keeps the rural South in unfair disadvantageous positions.
Given North-South imbalances that follow from the colonial incursions into what is now Latin America, Asia and Africa, a Northern Eco Pax Mundi Agora is paired off with an Eco Pax Mundi Southern Agora. The Northern has a great deal to learn from the Southern when it comes to the high level of embodiment of their daily practices. The Northern Agora, on the other hand, is more prone to co-engage with the Southern Agora in political activities geared at dissolving the legacy of colonialism that keeps the rural South in unfair disadvantageous positions.
