[gha] Re: Letter to President Obama - 2009 Nobel Peace Laureate (Copy) - as our peace responsibility

From: Leo Semashko <leo.semashko@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Bruce Cook, AuthorMe.com" <cookcomm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 15:58:03 +0400

Dear Bruce,

Thank you very much for your excellent, detailed, with many facts, letter to
President Obama as the only Nobel Peace Laureate among the G20 leaders with a
copy to Russian Presidency at G20 Summit below.

It is difficult now to say who of the G20 Summit participants more able to
initiate the Global Peace Science (GPS) to put its question into this agenda -
there are too many different circumstances and chances for each of them. But
theoretically, of course, Obama more than others can do it, and as Nobel Peace
Laureate – it is his trump and potential, and as the initiator of "nuclear
zero", the idea of which was included in the Agreement with Russia on a new
nuclear arms reduction in 2009, in London in the spring. This important idea
for the world was enough to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

GHA praised the "nuclear zero" as the first sign of a new, harmonious
civilization, being born within the industrial one and going to replace it.
That is expressed in two program collective books of GHA: Harmonious
Civilization, 2009: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=379, and The ABC of
Harmony for World Peace ... 2012: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=478.
On the other hand, Obama's nuclear zero is the knowing the stalemate of
military progress and the arms race. This is a logical self-negation of
military science and military thinking. Nuclear disarmament is the engine of
general and complete disarmament. But both of them are not possible without a
new, peaceful thinking and reason, embodied in GPS, which defines the
non-military guarantees and non-violent sources for global peace and world
security.

Another important fact of our time is that most part of economic growth is
eaten by increasing military spending. They lead to a permanent increase in
state debt and periodic cumulative economic / financial crises in the world.
This can be understood only in a paradigm of peaceful thinking and its science
(GPS), but not in the paradigm of military science and thinking.

Therefore, we can say with complete justification that GPS is a conscious way
out from the two interrelated deadlocks of modernity: (1) military (deadlock of
military progress in the arms race) and (2) economic (deadlock of economic
growth focused mainly on unmeaning military spending with concomitant global
economic and financial crises). GPS provides the scientific, acceptable to all
nations, answers to these two key challenges of our time, revealing the
advantages of global peace and as a world security guarantee, and as a key to
sustainable economic growth without crises.

Consequently, GPS, with similar unprecedented intellectual abilities,
beneficial to all countries, without exception, is worthy of close attention of
all governments and deserves to be a permanent theme on the agenda of each
summit of G20, as each UN General Assembly. Global peace through the prism of
relevant science (GPS) gives to these bodies and all governments the
sustainable peace measurement based on a new universal paradigm of scientific
social thinking and knowledge. Open the high road for this scientific paradigm
in the 21st century - it is the historical task of the G20 Summit. Who on it
will be the first able to understand and put this task? This is Hamlet's
question today for global peace: to be or not to be?

Dear Bruce, your excellent letter to President Obama, as well as other similar
letters of GHA members: Renato Corsetti - to Prime Minister of Italy; Ayo Amale
– to Presidents of South Africa, Nigeria and Ghana; Subhash Chandra and
Surendra Pathak - to Prime Minister of India; Justo Boleka - to Prime Minister
of Spain; Guy Crequie – to President of France; my and Roxanna Sadykova – to
President of Russia; my - to the UN and UNESCO leaders - all these letters help
participants of G20 Summit in St. Petersburg to understand this historical
problem in a peaceful solidarity. (These letters are published here:
www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=582). Global peaceful solidarity grows
out from deep harmony of civilizations, cultures and nations of the Earth,
disclosed GPS.

Similar letters (listed and new, preparing) - is the highest peace
responsibility of GHA and peace dignity of its members, what we can by right be
proud. I hope our peace responsibility finds appreciation not only in the GHA,
but also in the world.

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);
Director, GHA Website "Peace from Harmony": www.peacefromharmony.org
Global Peace Science from Harmony: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=582;
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

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From: Bruce Cook, AuthorMe.com, cookcomm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: leo.semashko@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: 24 августа 2013 г., 19:23:55
Subject: Letter to President Obama - 2009 Peace Laureate (Copy)

To Russian Presidency at the G20 Summit,September 5-6, 2013, St. Petersburg,
Russia

Copy of the letter is provided

Global Harmony Association (GHA)
www.peacefromharmony.org

August 19, 2013

TO:
Mr. Barack Obama, USA President, 2009 Nobel Peace Laureate

SUBJECT:
Your initiative as the Nobel Peace Laureate for the G20 Summit on September 5-6
in St-Petersburg to create the Global Peace Science through democratic
International Scientific Contest of more than 400 Peace Research Centres
worldwide under G20 aegis as the USA world's highest peacebuilding prestige in
the 21st century.

This idea is presented in detail in the Global Harmony Association (GHA) Open
Letter by 57 members from 20 countries to the Russian presidency on G20 Summit
for G20 leaders. I am pleased to send you this Letter (below) with a proposal
to create the Global Peace Science (GPS), for which there are many
prerequisites. This letter is published together with other documents for G20
here: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=582.

Dear Mr. President, only one Nobel Peace Laureate among G20 leaders,

This GHA Letter is intended to all the G20 Leaders but first to Russian
Presidency, i.e. to President Putin. However, I think, he will not be able to
initiate this key peace idea on the G20 Summit. You are the best initiator of
this turn for humanity peace proposal as the Nobel Peace Laureate. You could
initiate this idea before the Summit (for example 2-4 September) and make the
USA the world leader of global peace and pioneer of the Global Peace Science
(GPS) in human history. This historical event will be connected with your name
forever.

Now, when to the world is shown a way to create GPS and its first in history
the sample, this science will be established by the international community
with a relentless necessity - it's a question of the nearest future only. The
initiation of GPS on G20 will strengthen world prestige and international
authority of the USA. If USA and Russia does not use this historic chance in
2013, then any other Chairman of the G20 in the coming years can use this
advantage. It is inevitable. Especially now, when the GPS initiative has become
world famous and brought to the G20 leaders attention in many letters and
publication about it. Your initiative will open a new era of humanity, "a peace
race," which takes place of "the arms race" that was foreseen by Martin Luther
King Jr.: "We must shift the arms race into a peace race." This historic shift
will occur by your initiative, which will define the world history not only in
the 21st century.

GPS has direct relevance to sustainable global economic growth, which is the
subject of the G20 Summit in St. Petersburg. Economic growth of the USA is not
possible without global peace as it is for this growth the first prerequisite
and eternal and inexhaustible resource, revealed to all of the nations by the
relevant science - GPS. USA cannot live and grow further into the 21st century
without abrupt cuts in military spending together with their reduction in all
countries, i.e. without a global peace that can be understood and accessible
for conscious everyday and widespread building only on the basis of relevant
science - GPS. This is a global turning point in human history from a military
to peaceful one, defined by a new level of human thinking through new paradigm
of scientific reason.

History has exhausted all war alternatives, leaving only a peaceful alternative
for humanity. But it requires a corresponding science - GPS. Its rational
choice and recognition history is first put in 2013 before the G20 Summit. Will
the G20 accept it as a historical alternative? It now depends only from you
great peace initiative as the Nobel Peace Laureate, Mr. President.

The USA has many other global social achievements, which find, on the one hand,
the scientific and theoretical basis in the GPS, and on the other hand, open up
new areas for its practical application. These achievements include:
The USA bill about U.S. Dept. of Peacebuilding, which was supported by
California Democratic Party
(http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=b2iujJwzv%2FPbQJFSNMS7D0UluS1573yi)
The oldest International Association of Educators for World Peace born in the
USA and including the teachers worldwide
(http://iaewp-19thpeace-summit.webs.com)
Systems of Harmony Public Schools in Texas and Louisiana
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony_Science_Academy)
Project of economical justice, developed with Reagan times by Center of
Economical and Social Justice as the Third Way (http://www.cesj.org)
Interfaith and interspiritual movement in the USA since 1990
(http://www.thecominginterspiritualage.com/)
Annual National Harmony Festivals of arts in California
(http://www.harmonyfestival.com)
The Earth Constitution the World Constitution and Parliament Association in the
USA (www.wcpa.biz)
Hundreds of the USA peace research centres, institutions, foundations and
societies and so long.

This GPS could also be a new and strong bridge for the improvement and
development of peaceful relations with Russia, China and other countries and to
overcome pesky small obstacles as such occasion with Snowden, which is not
comparable with the value of the global peace.

The Governments of more than 200 years have nursed the science of war, which
has now best equipped governments with a powerful military industrial complex
embracing hundreds of millions of staff, with thousands of military academies
and colleges including tens of thousands of military scientists and teachers
and millions of listeners (officers and soldiers), and finally with a myriad,
annually galloping military budget of trillions of dollars, whipping up an
unrestrained arms race. This is an arsenal of war, prosperous primarily thanks
to the military mind in the face of military science, consolidating a war
arsenal with all its zillion resources. The war arsenal of any country creates
a real opportunity for each government to start aggression against any other
state, especially a neighbor, as well as within the country at any time.
Constant realization of this violent opportunity is illustrated by throughout
history, especially of the last century, in the heyday of military science as a
top of aggressive mind. Peace mind still no closer to analogous top.

Therefore, an arsenal of peace, devoid of peace science, is not able to
withstand the military arsenal and make a real alternative to war. After more
than two centuries of military science, at the threshold of a single global
society, economic growth of which depends from global peace, today, more than
ever we feel the acutest necessity for Global Peace Science. Therefore, its
initiation at the G20 Summit and its development under the G20 aegis and
patronage meet today's most pressing need of humanity. The leaders of each
state, if they want peace instead of war, can initiate the creation of this
science under the G20 aegis.

You, as Nobel Peace Laureate and President of the most powerful country in the
world as no one else have the most opportunities and foundations to initiate
the creation of this science on the G20 Summit and thereby push the governments
of the world at least through 200 years after the military science to pay
attention and to make efforts into alternative direction of peace science.

We can not say that peace has no arsenal. In the 20th century, we see a strong
international peace movement. So in the first half of the 20th century
flourished Western European pacifism, which died along with the start of the
World War II. After its ending the powerful World Peace Council under the USSR
aegis blossomed, with the collapse of which in 1990 had died and this peace
movement. Today it is represented by hundreds of peace research centers,
institutions, foundations and societies, which, despite their importance and
usefulness, are separated and fragmented for various reasons, but because are a
very weak compared to the war arsenal. The death of previous peace movements
and weakness of the modern ones can be explained only by the lack of an
integrating and consolidating power of mind in face of the Global Peace Science
(GPS).

Your initiation of this science under the aegis of the G20 governments of world
leading countries will underpin under the international peace movement of the
21st century as powerful consolidating scientific platform. Therefore, the
peace science initiation at the G20 summit with any side is a turning milestone
in the history of mankind, opening for it the alternative perspective of global
peace instead of global war and permanent state of preparing war.

All of these world and national key perspectives of global peace depend from
your initiative as the Nobel Peace Laureate with the GPS creating at the G20
Summit in this year.

Sincerely Yours,

Bruce L. Cook, Ph.D.
President, GHA-USA
Vice-President, GHA
Director of CSSS Publishing and Editorial team
President, World Writers Resources, Inc.
Author, Harmony of Nations: 1943 – 2020, Just Fiction Editions, 2012
1407 Getzelman Drive
Elgin, IL 60123 USA
312-859-8090
cookcomm@xxxxxxxxx
www.harmonyofnations.com
http://author-me.com
http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=544

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Spiritual Culture for Harmonious Civilization
Citizens of Earth!
Unite in harmony for love, peace, justice, fraternity and happiness!

Global Harmony Association (GHA)
Since February 15, 2005, GHA is an international NGO uniting more than 500
members in 56 countries and more than one million participants from the GHA
collective members in 80 countries.
Web: www.peacefromharmony.org

GHA 7 books and 47 projects list of social harmony, global peace and harmonious
education:
http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=472

GHA is recognized as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013 for
collective book:
The ABC of Harmony for World Peace…: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=478

Board: 35 GHA members from 16 countries
www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=249

GHA Founder and President: Dr. Leo Semashko
Address: 7/4-42 Ho-Shi-Min Street, St. Petersburg, 194356 Russia
E-mail: leo.semashko@xxxxxxxxx Web: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=253

GHA Mission is:
To bring peace from harmony and to pave a conscious way for harmonious
civilization on scientifically based ‘ABC of Harmony’ through harmonious
education
GHA Video: Social Genome of Peace from Harmony - http://youtu.be/hbxY5lREOeA
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August 4, 2013
GHA Open Letter:
Global Peace Science for G20 and Humanity –
Growth through Peace and for Peace but not for War

The Letter coauthors are 57 GHA members:
Leo Semashko, Charles Mercieca, Glen Martin, Bruce Cook, Ernesto Kahan, Bishnu
Pathak, Madhu Krishan, Ayo Ayoola-Amale, Subhash Chandra, Marina Kozlovska,
Julia Budnikova, Surendra Pathak, Mariam Khan, Nina Yudina, Heli Habyarimana,
Matjaz Mulej, Alexander Semashko, Laj Utreja, Maria Cristina Azcona,
N.S.Ravishankar, Vera Popovich, Lida Sherafatmand, Andrew Semashko, Svetlana
Kuskovskaya, Svetlana Vetrova, Justo Bolekia, Tholana Chakravarthy, Peter
Semashko, Leonid Timoshenko, Igor Shadhan, Dmitriy Delukin, Alexander Subetto,
Uraz Baimuratov, Alla Voronova, Maitreyee Roy, Erica Lazarova, Ivan Ivanov,
Alla Ivashintsova, Dmitriy Ivashintsov, Zaure Hizatolla, Guy Crequie, Artem
Budnikov, Takis Ioannides, Marie Robert, Vladimir Branskiy, Celia Altschuler,
Susana Roberts, Manijeh Navidnia, Kae Morii, Hedva Bachrach, Manish Bhatnagar,
Kurt Johnson, Nataly Cherkasova, Sarah Mbodj, Apostolos Paschos, Athanassios
Koumouris,
Subhash Sharma, A. K. Merchant,
from 20 countries:
Argentina, Bulgaria, France, Ghana, Greece, India, Israel, Iran, Japan,
Kazakhstan, Nepal, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, Russia, Rwanda, Senegal, Slovenia,
Spain, Ukraine, USA

Approved by GHA on August 3, 2013

Publication:
In English: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=582
In Russian: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=605
In French: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=fr_c&key=135
In Spanish: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=es_c&key=107

For peace-loving citizens:
Sign the GHA Open Letter about Global Peace Science for G20 and all Governments

In English can here:
https://www.change.org/ru/%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B8/to-leaders-of-the-group-of-twenty-g20-to-create-the-global-peace-science-gps

A peace based exclusively upon the political and economic
arrangements of governments would not be a peace which
could secure the unanimous, lasting and sincere support
of the peoples of the world, and that the peace must therefore
be founded, if it is not to fail, upon the intellectual and
moral solidarity of mankind. UNESCO Constitution.

Global peace science is a key of intellectual peace
solidarity of humanity and general hope of all nations
to real peace and prosperity on the Earth in the 21st century. GHA

Harmony will save peace. GHA

TO:
G20 Leaders, on the Summit, September 5-6, 2013, St. Petersburg, Russia

SUBJECT:
Global Peace Science for G20 and humanity.

PROCESS AND RESULT:
The GHA proposes to create, under the G20 aegis, Global Peace Science (GPS),
one of its variants created by the GHA during 8 years see below. For this
purpose, establish the G20 appropriate work Committee: “Global Peace Science
(GPS)” under the leadership of Sherpa and hold a 2014 International Scientific
Contest among the more than 400 Peace Research Сenters in the world to find the
best option for GPS, with a result to be discussed and approved at the next G20
Summit in 2014/15.
“The G20 agenda is organized around three overarching priorities, aimed at
starting a new cycle of economic growth:
- Growth through quality jobs and investment;
- Growth through trust and transparency;
- Growth through effective regulation”
(http://en.g20russia.ru/docs/g20_russia/priorities.html).
These are subjected to the criteria of “sustainable, inclusive and balanced
growth” as harmonious evolution, spontaneously forming global peace, requiring
adequate science (GPS). This science will allow G20 to determine the fourth
most important for the survival of mankind priority of growth: growth through
peace and for peace but not for war. This priority in the G20 agenda will be a
new and constant topic of discussion since 2014, when as a result of the
Contest the most appropriate version of GPS will be selected. This priority
will provide the highest holism and synergy of active harmonization for all
areas of economic growth. GPS will give the G20 working process an additional,
intellectual and moral impetus, optimizing and harmonizing this process,
greatly expand its formats, and most importantly, subordinating it to the
peaceful humanistic dimension and meaning of G20. Meeting the challenges of
economic growth within the GPS provides simultaneous steps towards global peace
and relevant decision of the most important problem of mankind. This will
increase G20’s efficiency and public benefit for the global community to higher
level. Global peace is inexhaustible, but so far an unknown resource for
sustainable economic growth, which requires a corresponding science. The
creation of this science is a modern challenge for the G20 - creating a common
language of peace for the nations and governments in a global society for the
21st century.

Dear G20 Leaders,

The GHA appreciates your work on stabilization and development of the global
economy and global finance, recognizing that your efforts have the potential to
spontaneously foster global peace. We recognize the G20 as the world's first
institution, together with the G8, attempting direct global regulation of world
economy and finance. Naturally, it’s axiomatic that global peace is a
prerequisite for sustainable development on a world scale. Any global armed
conflict threatens humanity in, as we know, "nuclear winter", i.e. destruction.
This is not a phantom danger - it has been proved by scientists around the
world. It hangs like a sword of Damocles over humanity, including the economy
with all its finances. In fact, war is more ruinous than any economic and
financial crisis. Preparing for a war, as expressed in the ever-growing global
arms race and the constant growth of global military spending –is one of the
main causes of today’s economic and financial destabilization and the related
global crises.

These facts take first place among world challenges affecting potential for
global peace. Analysis of the situation - its sources, causes, foundations and
actors – through global peace science (GPS) – is a clear challenge for each
leader. Unfortunately, this scientific approach has just been created in
addition to hundreds of scientific institutes and centers engaged in isolated
and fragmented private peace research on national and regional scale, but not
global level. But this scientific Rubicon can and must be crossed.

For example, considering military science, D. H. von Bülow’s (Spirit of Modern
Military Systems, 1799), developed by Carl von Clausewitz (On War, 1832) and
recognized by all governments, which continues now by hundreds of thousands of
military scientists and teachers and studies in thousands of military
academies, institutes and colleges by dozens of millions of soldiers and
officers. With comparison with war science, the absence of GPS is a great
intellectual and historical defect of humanity, finding explanations but finds
no scientific or moral justification, especially today. If governments have
been so eager to embrace military science, then how can they avoid accepting
peace science even now, after almost two centuries, if it will be created?

Humanity has long dreamed of such a science. Immanuel Kant wrote about its
possibility (i.e. the existence of objective natural source of peace) in his
great treatise Perpetual Peace in 1795. He found an objective guarantee of
global peace in the "harmony among men" as social nature, “which finally
assures peace” (www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/kant/kant1.htm). If there is an
objective social nature of peace, then may well be its science.

Kant’s supposition has received scientific development in the GHA, which has
developed GPS over 8 years based on the theory of social harmony. GPS is
represented in the GHA’s 7 books and 47 projects of social harmony and global
peace. The most perfect theoretical expression GPS is found in book: "The ABC
of Harmony for Global Peace ...." (2012) by 76 co-authors of GHA from 26
countries: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=478. Its empirical expression
is found in a new Program of "Comparative Sociological and Statistical Study"
analyzing dynamics of spheral classes of the population in India, USA, Russia
and Kazakhstan from 1950 to 2010 by decades
(www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=579. This study is not yet due to lack
of funding at $ 60,000). GPS represents itself both as a science, not only of
global harmony, but also the science of global justice, global economy, global
finance, global prosperity, global law and global democracy. It is expressed by
the GPS’s holistic model: "Social Genome of Peace from Harmony" (SOCIONOME:
www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=580). GPS is deeply holistic science,
covering the main measures of global peace: economic, financial, political,
legal and others.

In this way, GPS moves from solutions of military conflicts to their
prevention. All of this is presented in detail in the GHA books and projects,
and in the GPS general contour on 4 pages - in the article "Global Peace
Science" (www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=582).

Further, GPS is connected to another important global project: Constitution of
the Earth
(http://worldparliament-gov.org/constitution/the-earth-constitution/), which
proposes legal democratic regulation of all conditions of global peace:
economic, political, financial, and so on. However, the GPS option is based on
social harmony - this is one of its options, and its first real example, which
does not exclude the other.

As you can see, there are sufficient scientific backgrounds to create the GPS.
But this requires the will of world's political leaders, particularly G20
leaders, to organize an International Scientific Contest under the aegis of
your Committee. This Contest would be established under the appropriate G20
working committee under the leadership of Sherpa for competition among more
than 400 Peace Research Сenters in the world to seek the best option for GPS,
with a result to be discussed and approved at the next G20 Summit in 2014/15.

Key conditions of the proposed Contest, from our point of view are as follows:
1. The Contest should be open to any group of social scientists who have proven
themselves by publishing Peace Research by at least 5 scholars from no less
than two countries without any other restrictions.
2. The Contest will accept scientific texts of projects under the general
title: "Global Peace Science" having at least 10 pages and no more than 1,000
pages of electronic and paper versions (perhaps as a book) with a total summary
of contents in 4 pages or less.
3. Ideally, each project should include at least the following parts / sections:
3.1. A review of previous peace studies, especially of a global scale.
3.2. Underlying theory of global peace with fundamental concepts defining the
objective ultimate causes, natural actors and spontaneous but harmonious
sources of global peace.
3.3. Empirical confirmation for the theory of global peace.
3.4. A methodology and main ways to realize the theory of global peace at
global, regional, national and local levels.
3.5. A rough estimate of the economic efficiency of the global peace theory.
3.6. Applications of global peace science as the theories of global justice,
global law (especially human rights), global politics, global ecology, global
democracy, general and complete disarmament, global peace education, harmony
between religion and science, global culture of peace, global interfaith
harmony and global interspiritual movement.
4. We propose that the G20 Contest Committee develop "Rules of the GPS Contest"
with all details, including the necessary funding for research participants in
the Contest. This Regulation is approved by leaders of the G20.

The GHA has more detailed proposals so it can enter this Contest, which it is
ready to share.

The historical significance of this Contest is that it will be the first global
conscious-coupling mechanism of world political leaders, using with GPS as a
reasonable and therefore the non-violent key to global peace. Its result may be
the establishment of an International Peace Science Institute under the G20
aegis. This Contest will mark the beginning of a new era in human history - the
Age of consciously and universally building harmonious global peace on a
scientific basis. According to the UNESCO Constitution, not only war but also
peace arises in the mind, but only on the basis of relevant scientific
knowledge, which opens a new era. This era will be the integrated
implementation of the humanity’s fundamental ideas of peace expressed by human
genius:

Immanuel Kant: "What has nature done with regard to this end (the design of
perpetual peace) which man's own reason makes his duty? That is, what has
nature done to favor man's moral purpose…? … Nature guarantees perpetual peace
… but … making it our duty to work toward this end, which is not just a
chimerical one."
Leo Tolstoy: "In the hands of war are billions of money, millions of obedient
troops and in our hands is only one, but the mightiest tool in the world - the
truth" (true - it is a science).
Mahatma Gandhi: "If we are ever to have real peace in this world we shall have
to begin with the children" (i.e. with children's education in global peace
science).
Albert Einstein: "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by
understanding" (i.e. by mind, armed with the global peace science).
Martin Luther King Jr.: "We must shift the arms race into a peace race" (that
can be done through global peace science).

Sincerely Yours,

Dr. Leo Semashko
GHA President

GHA Social Ideal,
Peace from Harmony

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