Global Harmony Association (GHA) www.peacefromharmony.org August 27, 2013 TO: Mr. Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, Chairman of the G20 Summit, September 5-6, St. Petersburg: info@xxxxxxxxxxxx SUBJECT: Your initiation of the global peace science at the G20 Summit or at the UN General Assembly in the autumn of 2013. This science is a Copernican revolution of global consciousness as a transition from military to peaceful evolution before the threshold of a single global society in the 21st century. RESULT: Your initiative will make Russia and St. Petersburg the center of global peacemaking in the 21st century and provide you with the Nobel Peace Prize. This will be a historic initiative of Russia for our century. With this initiative, you have nothing to lose, only to find the greatest common good for Russia and the world. The most favorable time to report it is a week before the summit so its participants could comprehend the benefits of this science for their countries and for the world. It will focus the attention of world leaders on the new intellectual task and would lead them away from the constant military extinguishing of permanent fire in local conflicts, such as Syria, etc. Your initiative will be supported by the majority of countries: China, India, Brazil, Italy, South Africa, Argentina, and so on. Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich! We, ordinary people, can see how carefully you keep the memory about the fallen, those who worked and lived during the Second World War, and what care you are taken about survival to the present days for its participants. My father, an officer, was killed on the Western border on the first day of the war, June 22, 1941, when I was only two days old. My mother and our family, like the rest of Russia, drank a full cup of sorrow of war and postwar years, which we feel still in our misery. The first toast in Russian families is: "That there was no war." This expresses the peace-loving spirit of our people. So I have dedicated my conscious life of social philosopher and scientist to solve the problem of global peace, excluding war. This is my lifelong debt before the fallen father, as well as my children and grandchildren. In 2005 I created the Global Harmony Association (GHA), whose mission is: "Peace from Harmony," seeking global peace without the force of arms. During 8 years of GHA, by collective efforts of scientists from dozens of countries was created, in its first approximation, in "The ABC of Harmony for World Peace…(2012)" the Global Peace Science from social harmony. It forces out military science as a science to kill the near and far neighbors from world culture. The beginning of this science was put in Russia, in St. Petersburg, representing their spiritual property. Now we see that modern Russia enjoys the world's poorest reputation of the country, trusting on the force of their weapons and giving priority not to peace but to development of the armed forces and military science. It is very sad that Russia has lost and forgotten perhaps the greatest, peacekeeping, dignity of the Soviet Union, which was for many decades the world center of peacekeeping, peaceful coexistence and the struggle of the Earth peoples for peace, despite its ideological limitations. We see the hope for new peace initiatives the world puts on U.S., President Obama, who initiated the "nuclear zero", dialogue of civilizations and the like, rather than Russia. The world considers you, as its President, who is not capable to seize a peace initiative and decisive step towards global peace. (See letter of the American scientist and writer Bruce Cook to President Obama, which is published here: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=582) At the G20 Summit, 5-6 September 2013 in St. Petersburg, you, as its Chairman, have an historic opportunity to include in the Summit agenda, maybe in staging manner for the future, the creation of Global Peace Science through a democratic International Contest of scientists from the more than 400 research centers in the world under the G20 aegis. You could convince the G20 leaders in need of this science and for disarmament, primarily to provide a "nuclear zero" proposed by Obama but without peace basics, and for sustainable economic growth, free from pressure in military spending, etc. This will give the G20 Summit the peace dimension that they were lack. If G20 leaders will ignore this historic opportunity now, then it will inevitably be used on the following Summits or Sessions of the UN General Assembly. Discussion and vote on this issue at the Summit will show whether governments of major countries of the world want to develop global peace science or do they remain committed to the war and military science? In any case, such an initiative will fundamentally change the international image of Russia with militaristic on peacekeeping one and turn Russia into the center of a global peace-building that will revive the former tradition to a new level in the new century. If you reinforce your initiative in the creation in Russia, in St. Petersburg, the International Institute of Global Peace Science (I'm ready to head it and find for it the scientists from many countries of the world), you will ensure yourself a Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 and will open before Russian the perspective of a leader in global peacemaking at the 21st century. We believe the people of Russia, deeply peaceful in spirit, survivors of many wars, see such a historic mission of the current President of Russia in world politics and expect it from you today. All the necessary information and argumentation for this initiative, with all its global and national benefits for each country, primarily for its initiator, for Russia, is located on the GHA website here: In Russian: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=05 And in English: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=582 This letter was published on these pages. Sincerely Yours, Dr. Leo Semashko, on GHA behalf, Founder and President of the Global Harmony Association (GHA) since 2005, State Councillor of St. Petersburg, philosopher, sociologist and peacemaker of harmony, St. Petersburg, Tel.: 7-812-597-6571 Personal Page: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=286