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Riverside Community is a village at Lower Moutere, near Motueka, New Zealand, founded by Christian Pacifists in 1941. ==History== Riverside is one of the oldest Intentional Communities in New Zealand and has its beginnings in 1941 when a group of Christian Pacifists agreed to adopt a way of life based on co-operation. They wanted to demonstrate that this was a practical alternative to the competitive ways of normal society which are a major contributor to wars. One of the organisers was the pacifist leader Archibald Barrington. 〔J. E. Cookson, "Pacifism and Conscientious Objection in New Zealand" in ''Challenge to Mars : essays on pacifism from 1918 to 1945'', edited by Peter Brock and Thomas P. Socknat. University of Toronto Press, 1999.. ISBN 0802043712 (p. 292)〕 One of the group contributed 30 acres of farmland and orchard, in the Lower Moutere Valley, and some of them moved there to live. Several of the founding members were conscientious objectors to the compulsory military scheme during the Second World War. These men spent the war years on a prison farm in the Taranaki Region while their wives and children moved to the small farm in Lower Moutere. After the war, the Religious Charitable Riverside Community Trust (RCT) was founded and, over time, new land was purchased and the hilly scrub land cleared and cultivated. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Riverside Community (Lower Moutere, NZ)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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