Dear Ernesto, Thank you very much for your strong support of the GHA project, which was supported by the donations of 30 members from 12 countries. You very well feel the true peaceful moods differing them from peaceful lie, which allowed to be all wars and genocides of 20th and 21st centuries. You promised your very important article about genocide of the past. Please, let me know: when I could receive it? Thank you. With love, best harmony wishes, Leo Dr Leo Semashko: State Councillor of St. Petersburg, Philosopher, Sociologist and Peacemaker from Harmony; Director: Tetrasociology Public Institute, Russia; Founding President, Global Harmony Association (GHA) since 2005; Director, GHA Website "Peace from Harmony": www.peacefromharmony.org Global Peace Science from Harmony: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=585 and In Russian: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=606; World Interfaith Harmony Project on the ABC of Harmony Base: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=541; GHA Program Book, The ABC of Harmony for World Peace: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=478; GHA Peace Video: http://youtu.be/hbxY5lREOeA; My Web page: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=253; Address: 7/4-42 Ho-Shi-Min Street, St. Petersburg 194356, Russia Phone: 7 (812) 597-65-71; Skype: leo.semahko Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/leo.semashko?ref=tn_tnmn ----- Original Message ----- From: Prof. Ernesto Kahan, ekahan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: leo.semashko@xxxxxxxxx Sent: 22 февраля 2014 г., 22:33:59 Subject: [gha] Re: Donations to Global Peace as the GHA Ethics and GPS Moral Dignity BRAVO LEO!!!!! This a great project Ernesto Kahan From: Leo Semashko Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2014 7:31 PM To: gha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; peace-from-harmony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gha] Donations to Global Peace as the GHA Ethics and GPS Moral Dignity Dear GHA members, friends, I am happy to announce that the GHA 50th project "World Honorary Titles of Global Peace for Donations" was approved by the GHA after three weeks of discussions. We did not get a single vote against it. I heartily congratulate and thank everyone for it support. The updated project was published below and on the website: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=590. The project banner: "Gandhis, Nobels and Maecenases for Global Peace of the 21st century" was posted on the main page (www.peacefromharmony.org). We thank Bruce Cook for his editing of the English text. This project will be published in the GPS book special chapter. Let me generalize its logic, which has several sides. 1. Social logic. Trillions of dollars are spent every year in industrial militaristic civilization for war and its preparation and the budget of global peace is almost zero. Therefore, in this civilization is no one book or project devoted to global peace. As a result, the GHA nine-year experience empirically proved that in the militaristic situation we can publish our books and projects, dedicated to global peace from harmony, only through donations. In this way, the GHA has published 7 books and 50 projects of global peace for 9 years. From this logic, it follows that one who does not want to donate at least one dollar to global peace, one does not want peace and does not want the publication of books devoted to it. Therefore, he cannot participate in their creation. In social aspect, no harmony can be with disharmony of greed, with its injustice and militarism. To reeducate it takes decades and centuries. 2.Moral logic. Mainly, moral merit of this project is its support by the donations of 29 coauthors of Global Peace Science (GPS) of 50 ones. (Naturally, number of the GPS coauthors - donors will grow.) This means that the principle of donation to global peace as its moral support is approved by a majority of co-authors as a criterion of moral dignity to participate in the GPS creation. This ethical requirement is absolute and unprecedented for GPS and its coauthors as unprecedented is global peace of the 21st century. This requirement is just and necessary, as global peace can do only good and clean hands. Greedy and dirty hands it did not. All GPS coauthors were invited to make any donation (it maybe in 1, or 10, or 100, or 1000 USD and so on) as a symbol of MORAL contribution and support of global peace. The 29 coauthor have made the most different donations ​​by publicly announcing them. These GHA members, with more than modest incomes of the poorest countries, have proved by their donations them true dedication to global peace and ethical dignity to serve it. A donation for global peace is question of moral honor for coauthors of its science! A donation of at least one dollar for global peace expresses it in the first place, compassion and moral support. Ethics of GPS is the moral law of support a global peace: a person is not able to donate to it at least one dollar deprives himself the moral right to participate in the GPS creation. This law was approved by a majority of votes: 29 of 50. 3. Organizational logic. We see as our friends from the poorest countries: Nepal, Argentina, Rwanda, India and others are finding the opportunity to donate to global peace; and people from the richest country, such as Glen Martin and many his compatriots ignored this moral support. (It was my main reason to leave him as the second editor). This is an open contempt to 29 coauthors in "a very polite manner" as Laj said. Ignoring the moral support is identical to glaring disharmony, injustice and inequality that are unacceptable for global peace, because it is impossible without harmony, equality and justice. These people have been unable to overcome the typical American morality of greed, which is condemned worldwide. We, more than 29 authors reported our donations will not be able to work ethically with such people in the GPS book. Some colleagues from the poorest countries rightly ask: why the articles of rich coauthors, receiving monthly more than 5 thousand dollars but did not finding even one dollar for global peace, must be printed on the donations of the poor authors receiving 100-300 dollars a month in countries such as Nepal, Argentina, Ghana, India, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Rwanda, etc.??? The United States became the world's axis of greed, extreme individualism and militarism that has made them the main obstacle and threat to global peace (http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/12/31-6). In creating GPS we cannot cooperate with people who share the American mainstream morality. We cannot allow that in the GPS project the rich lived at the expense of the poor. However, these people have the possibility of moral change, worthy to global peace. But if it does not, then let we stay in half of the coauthors but we will protect the GHA and GPS from public shame of greed of the rich, for which one dollar is more value than global peace! 4. Individual logic. I, as the GHA founding president during 9 years as an editor and manager of its seven books and 50 projects within this time, I cannot expect anything like this from the GHA peacemakers even in the worst nightmare! Moral paralysis of greed – it is the discovery of my life for 72 years! Our vote and discussion, as a sociological study, initiated by me, found this unexpected moral perversion among the GHA peacemakers. So, naturally, I cannot work with such people and edit their articles in a book devoted to global peace, for which they regretted even one symbolic dollar. I would be ashamed to work with them and my conscience will not allow me it. How it would not been bitter and difficult us in this moral conflict but it has a positive value in the moral catharsis and spiritual cleansing the GHA team, first working in the GPS creation, without which global peace is impossible. We will free GPS from the shame of greed and will preserve moral honor of the pioneers of global peace and its science. As they say, a blessing in disguise! Best wishes for harmony and moral honor to each peacemaker, Dr. Leo Semasko, GHA President ------------------------------------------------------------------------ World Honorary Titles of Global Peace For donations and active promotion of global peace from harmony in science, art, religion, politics, economy and civil society The GHA 50th Project Started: February 2, 2014 Approved by GHA on February 20, 2014 Authors: Dr. Leo Semashko, GHA President, Project Manager and the GHA 29 members: Roxana Sadykova, Ernesto Kahan, Andrei Semashko, Julia Budnikova, Surendra Pathak, Heli Habyarimana, Ayo Ayoola-Amale, Mohammad Khan, Ivan Ivanov, Svetlana Kuskovskaya, Vera Popovich, Dmitry Delyukin, Alexander Semashko, Piotr Semashko, Svetlana Vetrova, Alexander Subetto, Andrei Smirnov, Uraz Baimuratov, Bishnu Pathak, Bruce Cook, Nina Meyerhof, Adolf Shvedchikov, A.K. Merchant, Maria Cristina Azcona, Susana Roberts, Manijeh Navidnia, Justo Bolekia, Subhash Chandra, and others From 12 countries: Argentina, Ghana, India, Israel, Iran, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Rwanda, Spain, USA, Copyright В© 2014 Global Harmony Association Copyright В© 2014 Leo Semashko Publication in languages: English: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=590 Russian: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=612 1. Motivation Global Peace from Harmony in the 21st century is an unprecedented phenomenon and unprecedented task of humanity in world history. Therefore, it requires the equally unprecedented social, spiritual, cultural and moral ideas, initiatives and efforts as well as unprecedented people and their leaders. They are prepared for the first time to consciously and systematically develop the Global Harmony Association (GHA) during 9 years since February 2005: www.peacefromharmony.org (which has about 5 million visits). This website published thousands of pages of peacemaking diversity, including the GHA’s seven books and 49 projects of global peace from harmony. The GHA created, by using and uniting this diversity, the foundations of unprecedented Global Peace Science from Social Harmony in the ABC of Harmony for World Peace (2012: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=478) and is now preparing the text of this science for a special book (www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=585). Without this science Global Peace of the 21st century is impossible. These spiritual achievements of the GHA made it an unprecedented scientific and holistic center for Global Peace in the 21st century. Mankind stands on the brink of military self-destruction by militaristic civilization, where almost every adult is constantly forced to pay taxes to the military budgets of $ 2 trillion dollars annually and global peace is devoid of any system of funding remaining at zero. War, violence and terrorism have millions of sponsors in this civilization and global peace only one sponsor - the Nobel Peace Prize offering just over a million dollars a year. Such a weak level of sponsorship was powerless to ensure global peace in the 20th century which was filled with world, interethnic and terrorist wars. The social pathologies of this civilization - greed, consumerism, extreme individualism and other confront to global peace - these pathologies have been criticized by the Supreme Pontiff Francis. GHA develops this criticism in the current project and others. Global peace of the 21st century will never come without a common scientific understanding of the sources, guarantees and actors of global peace and without systemic institutional funding in trillions of dollars beginning with donations of the most conscientious citizens-peacemakers. Unprecedented Global Peace Science is created in the GHA, which consolidates it with the best historical examples of peacemaking and self-sacrifice: Numa Pompilius (Rome, 8-7 century BC), Gaius Maecenas (Rome, 1st century BC), Francis Assisi (Italy, 1182 - 1226), Alfred Nobel (Sweden, 1833 - 1896) and Mahatma Gandhi, India (1869 - 1948). GHA crystallizes and integrates the most effective human resources of world history to achieve global peace in the 21st century. This allows GHA to establish an unprecedented World Honorary Titles of Global Peace to initiate, motivate and stimulate unprecedented civil peace movement for Global Peace in all its dimensions: social, spiritual, political and economic. These integral dimensions of global peace are expressed by the unprecedented scientific Social Genome - SOCIONOME: SOCIONOME is a scientific symbol and essence of Global Peace from Harmony in deep structural comprehension of its sources, guarantees and actors (http://youtu.be/hbxY5lREOeA). 2. Honorary Titles and their Definitions Global Harmony Association as Scientific and Spiritual Center for Global Peace ESTABLISHES World Honorary Titles of Global Peace For donations and active promotion of global peace from harmony in science, art, religion, politics, economy and civil society: 1. Global Peace Gandhi - for leadership in the global civil nonviolent disobedience to military taxes with a positive alternative of global peace and general disarmament from harmony. 2. Global Peace Francis (Assisi) - for the donation of anyone of all his fortune for the goal of global peace and general disarmament from harmony. 3. Global Peace Nobel - for a donation for global peace $ 20,000 or more. 4. Global Peace Maecenas - for a donation for global peace $ 5,000 or more. 5. Global Peace Numa (Pompilius) - political or civic leaders of any level from municipal to global for practical efforts towards global peace with a donation $ 2,000 or more. 6. Global Peace Donator - for a donation of any citizen for global peace up to $ 2,000. 7. World Harmony Creator - for the development and active promotion of global harmony in science, art, religion, politics, economy and civil society as a holistic source of global peace. (This GHA Honorary Title operates since 2007 and nine outstanding people are its Laureates: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=513). Each one of them is a Global Peace Sponsor or Donor. These are supremely worthy persons who possess the beauty character, intellectual courage, civic responsibility and moral will to reach the first common good of humanity - Global Peace. Any sponsor’s donation is estimated as a Honorary and Spiritual contribution to Global Peace of the 21st century, as an example of compassion and help for mankind to get rid of wars. 3. Donation Purposes Global Peace Sponsors are united by one common purpose - to reach Global Peace in the 21st century based on Global Peace Science from harmony through a voluntary accumulation of funds (donations) to fulfill the following peacemaking tasks: 1. Political resistance and organization of mass civil nonviolence disobedience to war (only) taxes with a positive alternative of general and complete disarmament (GACD) for 50 years (until 2065) through the reduction of military budgets of all countries by 2% annually. (This objective, in the first approximation is formulated in the GHA appropriate petition to the UN here: (www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=529). 2. Development and promotion of Global Peace Science as a consolidated scientific peacemaking consciousness based on the social genome (SOCIONOME) of global harmony in all countries: (http://youtu.be/hbxY5lREOeA). 3. Funding for the Institute of Global Peace in UNESCO, Academy of Peace and Harmony, Monitoring Centers of Peace and War (www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=588) etc. 4. Establishment of institutions of global harmonious education (schools, colleges, universities and academies) in Global Peace Science (the 10 projects of such institutions are listed in the GHA projects: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=472) worldwide. 5. Stimulation of the global peace art and interfaith harmony as its special sources. These purposes can be expanded along with the increase of donations. 4. Approval Order 1. All Honorary Titles of individual persons are approved by GHA members by a majority of votes of the voting participants. 2. The first and the seventh Honorary Titles are initiated by members of the Board and President of GHA and after their approval they are offered to approval by the GHA members. 3. Other Honorary Titles are approved by the GHA members on the basis of appropriate donations, for which each sponsor shall inform the President of GHA or any of the GHA leaders using e-mail addresses which have been published in "Contact Us" here: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=574. 4. Depending on the size of donations, special conditions, time and how they transfer, the GHA Board and the President determines all the parameters for transferring donations acceptable to the sponsor. 5. Sponsor’s Organs and Functions within the GHA 1. The GHA approved sponsors of Global Peace create an independent Supervisory Board of Sponsors (SBS) to control the use of donations for Global Peace and determine the details of its regulatory relationship with GHA. 2. SBS elects the necessary bodies of governance and creates its own Charter, which is offered for discussion and approval by the GHA members. 3. Within this Charter the SBS creates other necessary bodies of governance and monitoring at its discretion. 4. The SBS with the GHA Board creates on the GHA website "Global Peace Sponsors Gallery" together with their portraits and brief biographies and for Global Peace Donators - Honorary List in this Gallery. 6. Honorary List of Donators and Maecenases for Global Peace. On February 20, 2014. Donations are in U.S. dollars. These donations constitute the unprecedented in human history conscious BUDGET of Global Peace to create Global Peace Science as its first necessary spiritual condition. Andrei Semashko, St. Petersburg, Russia: 5000 - the world's first Global Peace Maecenas Roxana Sadykova, Ufa, Russia: 1000 Ernesto Kahan, Tel Aviv, Israel: 200 Leo Semashko, St. Petersburg, Russia: 1000 Julia Budnikova, St. Petersburg, Russia: 1000 Surendra Pathak, India: ? Heli Habyarimana, Rwanda: 50 Ayo Ayoola-Amale, Ghana: ? Mohammad Khan, Pakistan: 100 Ivan Ivanov, St. Petersburg, Russia: 30 Svetlana Kuskovskaya, St. Petersburg, Russia: 30 Vera Popovich, St. Petersburg, Russia: 30 Dmitry Delyukin, St. Petersburg, Russia: 30 Alexander Semashko, Kaluga, Russia: 1000 Piotr Semashko, Moscow, Russia: 300 Svetlana Vetrova, St. Petersburg, Russia: 30 Alexander Subetto, St. Petersburg, Russia: 100 Andrei Smirnov, Novgorod, Russia: 200 Uraz Baimuratov, Almaty, Kazakhstan: 500 Bishnu Pathak, Nepal: 10 Bruce Cook, USA: 2000 Nina Meyerhof, USA: 50 Adolf Shvedchikov, Russia: 30 A.K. Merchant, India: ? Maria Cristina Azcona, Argentina: 10 Susana Roberts, Argentina: 20 Manijeh Navidnia, Iran: 10 Justo Bolekia, Spain: 10 Subhash Chandra, India: 20 These GHA members, with more than modest incomes from the poorest countries, by their donations have proven their true dedication to global peace and ethical dignity to serve it, providing it, above all, spiritual contribution and moral support. This list, together with the new donor’s names will be published on the first page of the book "Global Peace Science" in December 2014. GHA Social Ideal, Peace from Harmony