Dear Leo Many thanks for your email about the new edition of GHA book. I surely agree, and would like to propose a nice design for the cover of the book once I'll know more precisely about the contents. I'm back to Malta from the exhibition and event in St Petersburg, and thank you so much for all your warmth and support during my stay there. It was such a wonderful experience that I miss everyone so much. I'll soon prepare a report of the whole event and send you including photos and all. I had to go straight to school to teach here in Malta as soon as I arrived, so this weekend is the only time I'm finding to write some emails! Sending you warmest greetings Lida Lida Sherafatmand, Painter and poet, www.lidsher.com GHA Board Vice-president, President, GHA Female Contest: "Muse of Harmony" http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=474 The ABC of Harmony coauthor http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=478 Paris and Malta -------------------------------------------- En date de : Mer 18.9.13, Leo Semashko <leo.semashko@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit : Objet: [gha] GHA 's new book: Global Peace Science, its key ideas and contents. Your approval up to 21 September À: gha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, peace-from-harmony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Mercredi 18 septembre 2013, 15h12 GHA 's new book: Global Peace Science, its key ideas and contents. Your approval up to 21 September Dear GHA Members, Friends, I am glad to send you for your discussion and approval by your YES or NOT up to September 21 inclusively the GHA new project-book: "Global Peace Science: The First Common Good for the 21st Century" (see below its contents), about we talked for a long time. It is designed for one year, until September 2014. This project will include our letters and proposals of this science to G20 leaders, discussion, fragments of our projects of interfaith harmony, CIHE and others. So it is partially completed. Although this is another unique project of GHA but it stands out because it is dedicated to the most important topic of the 21st century - Global Peace Science (GPS), and with it to the GHA 10th anniversary and International Day of Peace, 21 September - a gift for it. This will be the crown of our 10 -year-old research in the theoretical understanding of global peace. I'm happy to invite to this project the GHA full members. We discussed in detail the definition of full membership, which is published here: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_d . Many members of the GHA has complied with these requirements, and others who wish to participate in the new project, could easily meet them. They are very simple. I am also pleased to announce the publication of a large part (about 30 pages of letters of about 20 GHA members) of our discussion of GPS in August and September here in English: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=582 . Completely these texts will be published within a week. Heartfelt thanks to Bruce Cook for editing of these texts. The GHA Vice -President Heli Habirimana of Rwanda is well written to us that the voice of GPS is not weak, but it needs developing. This wonderful idea is reflected in the GHA new book, which of course will be more prominent voice of this science in the world. You could understand that, having become acquainted with the key ideas and contents of this book below. I think they will inspire many members and friends of GHA. 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Global Peace Science: The First Common Good of the 21st Century World textbook for schools, colleges, universities and academies Dedicated to the GHA 10th anniversary, February 15, 2015 and the International Day of Peace, September 21 GHA 48th Project Started: March 12, 2013 Approved GHA on September 21, 2013 Approximate length: 300-400 pages Approximate date of publication: September-November 2014 General purpose: to create a pattern of scientific, harmonious, peaceful, global consciousness and vision for a harmonious, peaceful, world civilization Paradigm: tetradic, harmonious, network, scientific, model and planetary thinking (Tetranet thinking) Genre: synergetic synthesis of science, philosophy, religion and art Authors: Dr. Leo Semashko, Project Manager, Editor in Chief and GHA _ full members from _ countries. (For a list of full members will be published later. Definition of the GHA full membership, please visit About Us: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_d) Key peace ideas and definitions of Global Peace Science: The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters. Francisco Goya The Sleep of Peace Reason Produced War Monsters of the 20th and 21st Centuries. Only Global Peace Science will Awaken this Reason. GHA If we are ever to have real peace in this world we shall have to begin with the children. Mahatma Gandhi If we are ever to have real peace in this world we shall have to begin with the children, with the ABC of Harmony as peace science, and with their harmonious peace education in it. GHA Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. Albert Einstein Hence, peace can be achieved and built only by reason, armed global peace science and embodied in global consciousness through global education in it. GHA 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. Leo Tolstoy Of all the arsenals of humanity: culture, science, art, medicine, education, economy, politics, etc., the most powerful and fastest growing today is the war arsenal, consolidated military science and nursing all governments around the world at a rabid military budgets. Peace arsenal is infinitely weak in comparison with it, first of all, because it is deprived of scientific expression of the peace truth as its mightiest tool. This truth is clearly expressed Global Peace Science. GHA GHA creates the Global Peace Science on the shoulders of world giants of human thought. Global Peace Science is consolidation of peace consciousness of humanity in contrast to military science as consolidation of hostile consciousness of humanity. GHA Social harmony creates the best possibilities for development of every part of society and it as a whole; therefore harmony excludes the wars between the parts and is the ultimate guarantor and source of peace. Hence, peace comes from harmony. GHA If harmony is the ultimate guarantor and source of peace, Global Peace Science is the Science of Social Harmony, most fully represented in the ABC of Harmony for Global Peace (2012). GHA GHA does not know other variants of Global Peace Science and other theoretical approaches to its creation but logically GHA supposes them opportunity and ready both to compete with them in any international scientific contest, and cooperate with them to complement each other in a mutual harmonious enriching. GHA Contents (in the first approximation) 1. Introduction. (The detailed expression of the Global Peace Science as Social Harmony Science is the GHA book: The ABC of Harmony for Global Peace ... (2012: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=478). Therefore, the new book is limited only a general outline of scientific theory of global peace from the ABC, focusing on the program of empirical proof of this theory, its different private complements, applications, etc.) 2. The ABC of Harmony trunk and its four branches of global scientific social knowledge as global social sciences: 2.1. Global Peace Science for Sociosphere 2.2. Science of Global Harmonious Worldview for the Spiritual sphere (Infosphere) 2.3. Science of Global Harmonious Democracy and Politics for Orgsphere 2.4. Science of Global Harmonious Economy, Ecology and Economic Justice for TechnoEcoSphere 3. Military Science: Military Reason Consolidating the War Arsenal 4. Historical Approaches to Universal Peace 5. Immanuel Kant: Ancestor of Global Peace Science (GPS) 6. The theory of Global Peace as the Theory of Social Harmony 7. Program of Empirical Study of Spheral Classes of the Population 8. Dynamics of Military Spending in the National Budgets in 50 years 9. Disarmament as Transformation of the Armed Forces in the Peace Corps 10. International Global Peace Institute (IGPI) 11. Peace from Interfaith Harmony 12. Private Peacemaking theories and researches: Prof. Galtung, Peace Department, etc. 13. GPS: Unity with the Theory of Economic Justice and the Earth Constitution 14. Culture of Harmonious Global Peace (compared to the modern militaristic culture of peace) 15. GPS: Consolidation of Peace Consciousness of Humanity 16. Harmonious Peace Education through GPS as the Source of Peace Consciousness of Humanity 17. Science and Art of Global Peace 18. Individual Peace 19. Art Illustrations and Images of GPS: 19.1. GPS Poetry (Up to 10 the best poems of GHA members on the basis of poetic contest) 19.2. GPS Paintings (Up to 10 the best pictures of GHA members on the basis of art contest) 19.3. GPS Music (Up to 10 the best works of any genre of GHA members on the contest basis) 20. GPS: Theoretical Platform for a New International Peace Movement 21. References, including a list of all the GHA projects and books 22. Appendixes: 1. Letters of the GHA members to G20 leaders, the UN, governments, etc. 2. GPS Discussion in the GHA (letters of GHA members since 2013) Notes. 1. Offer: GHA Contest Commission for artwork: Ernesto Kahan - Chairman. Members: Leo Semashko, Bruce Cook, Ayo Amale, Celia Altshuler, Surendra Pathak. 2. Scientific Texts, as usual, held a brainstorming session in the GHA. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------