Dear Surendra, Thank you very much for your donation for Global Peace Science!!! You are the first in the Honorary List:Global Peace Donators. The details we discuss later. Please, let us know about your article for GPS. 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: Surendra Pathak, pathak06@xxxxxxxxx To: leo.semashko@xxxxxxxxx Sent: 2 февраля 2014 г., 20:30:55 Subject: [gha] Re: SOS. Donation for Global Peace Science (GPS): your discussion and approval in your voting to February 4 Dear Dr. Leo, Yes, I will donate. even I can proposed to publish it in India. I will try to search some financial assistance in India. thanking you Dr. Surendra Pathak, President GHA -India On 2/2/14, MATJAŽ MULEJ <mulej@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear Leo, > in the last moment, but anyway, I sent my proposal to Nobel committee. > Best, > Matjaz > ________________________________________ > From: gha-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [gha-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Leo > Semashko [leo.semashko@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2014 8:40 PM > To: gha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: peace-from-harmony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [gha] SOS. Donation for Global Peace Science (GPS): your discussion > and approval in your voting to February 4 > Leo Semashko and Glen Martin > APPEAL to GPS Coauthors, GHA Members and Friends! > SOS for GPS: > Global Peace of the 21st Century cannot be without it! > Rescue of drowning is the handiwork of drowning. > If not we then who else will create GPS? - No one else. > Motivation > The ninth anniversary of the Global Harmony Association (GHA: > www.peacefromharmony.org) and the second anniversary of the publication the > ABC of Harmony for World Peace ... (2012: > www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=478) is on February 15, 2014. > This book contains the science of global harmony as a source for world peace > and is the theoretical foundation of Global Peace Science (GPS): > www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=585. These revolutionary scientific > discoveries of GHA are presented in unprecedented 7 books and 49 GHA > projects for 9 years (www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=472). > But today we should talk no about the GHA achievements but about salvation > of the GHA spirit to complete his crowning contribution to global peace - > GPS, without which can be no global peace in our century. The insurmountable > obstacle to complete GPS became the fruitless search of a groat in $40.000, > we could not find within a year among of more than 100 Nobel Laureates, > international peace organizations and foundations, some of which have > budgets in the millions and even billions of dollars. (Maybe they are more > serving to their greed than peace? Why? Their list, review of our > invitations for them and the answer on this question we will give in a > special article in GPS book). > Problem > To date, we have received about 60 articles and several poems of 43 > coauthors from 17 countries: see the list below. This is approximately 90% > of the expected promised articles, which together with the applications are > about 400 pages of the GPS book. In fact, in the theoretical part, we have > prepared this book almost completely, except for the other key work on > editing them, for which we reserve 6 months, and also 10 unfinished > editorials. > However, we cannot and will not publish this book until we will not conduct > the necessary statistical study of dynamics of the spheral classes of the > population at least in the two countries for comparison: the U.S. and Russia > during 60 years, starting since 1950 to 2010 on decades > (www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=579). Only this study will be the > second necessary element of any science - the empirical basis for GPS, which > proves the existence, real dynamics and key function of the spheral classes > of the population as a global social structure, which determines the source > of social harmony and peace from it. Without such empirical basis, GPS has > no right to be called as a science. Therefore, the book GPS together with > the Earth Constitution as its organic part can not and will not be published > without this empirical base. Without it, GPS and all its parts, ideas, > articles and coauthors will be discredited. We cannot let that happen. > But this statistical research for GPS cannot be held without payment of a > complex and long (4-6 months) work of professional statisticians in the > United States and Russia. The costs for this work in minimum amount $24,000 > on $12,000 by a country. In addition, translation, editing, creating two > original models and publication in Russian and English two books of 400 > pages in 1000 copies each will require, in minimum, another $16,000 by $8000 > for each country. As a result, each country requires $20,000 to provide GPS > necessary empirical basis and publish its book in November-December 2014 to > the GHA 10th anniversary. In total, the GHA must find at least $40,000. > This funding is today the GPS salvation, the rescue of spirit, will, mind, > and hope of global peace, which is impossible without this science in the > 21st century. It is salvation for revolution of peace thinking embodied in > GPS and, finally, is the GHA salvation as only organization that embodies > the idea and dream of global peace from global harmony. Without this money > they will die. This will be an irreparable loss of humanity for its global > peace. Therefore, the GHA must find $40,000 to save GPS for mankind. How to > do it? > Solution: Self-sacrifice for Peace through Donation > Our GHA position today maybe expresses well by the paraphrased first line of > Dante's Divine Comedy: "earthly life passed before the half, we (GHA) found > themselves in a dark forest," in the financial quagmire. In truth, we are > all life in it but today it is particularly critical and detrimental for the > GHA. We rescued from it acting on our own donations of the GHA members and > coauthors of all our books 7. Therefore, before the GHA a choice is today: > either to perish abandoning GPS or find a lifeline in one thousand dollars > donation from each of the GPS 43 co-authors during February-March that since > March to begin the necessary statistical study. > I, Leo Semashko, GHA Founding President, guarantee to donate in February a > thousand dollars to create GPS. It's my 3+ monthly pension ($300 or 10 500 > rubles per month); I'll live at the expense of my wife and sons. Glen gives > a similar guarantee what he will write specially. Of course, we understand > that this donation has three sides. For some of the authors of the poorest > countries, with children and aging parents, it is impossible. For some, it > is possible only in some part of a thousand of dollars. But for some the > donations in 5, 10, and 15 thousand dollars are possible. > The donations for GPS, without which global peace is impossible in the 21st > century, are real help and compassion to humanity still deprived of > universal peace, suffering from war and terror and unhappy in them. The > names of all donors will be included in Honorary List: "Global Peace > Donators," which will be published on the first page of GPS book. > We see in the world a lot of the war donators, including us, a substantial > part of the taxes of each of us goes to weapons and war but unfortunately we > still do not see the taxes on peace, because we live in a militaristic > civilization, and also the donors of global peace, the institution of which > GHA will open by this list. > Honorary Title - "NUMA: MAECENAS OF GLOBAL PEACE AND EARTH CONSTITUTION" > We propose to approve the GHA new World Honorary Title for the GPS donors in > 15 thousand dollars or more, starting with the GPS book donations. As GPS > now includes the Earth Constitution as its essential part so we offer the > following name for this title: "NUMA: MAECENAS OF GLOBAL PEACE AND EARTH > CONSTITUTION" or "Numa Pompilius of the 21st Century" or simply "NUMA". GHA > will open on the site "Peace from Harmony" a gallery of the MAECENASES with > their portraits and biographies and will publish them in the GPS periodic > books to immortalize their names. This honorary title is offered in honor of > the second king of Rome Numa Pompilius, who lived in the 7th century BC. > According to ancient historians, Plutarch and others, Numa Pompilius donated > for peace all his fortune and established for all 43 years of his reign > eternal peace for the Roman people on the basis of social harmony, which he > created intuitively long before Confucius, Buddha and Christ. The human > history does not know of such rulers and wealthy people as philanthropists > and maecenases of eternal world peace. Alfred Nobel was only in the late > 19th century, tried to repeat the example of Numa Pompilius and bequeathed > to humanity of the 20th century the annual Peace Prize of his military > revenue from his invented dynamite. Unfortunately, his Prize, with all its > grandeur, did not save humanity from the bloodiest in the history of the > 20th century, filled with the world, national, revolutionary, civil and > terrorist wars, still flame up to now. To a new age and its global peace are > need the new rulers, maecenases and donors like Numa Pompilius but not the > only and in an infinite number of supporters of world peace, willing and > able to donate 15 thousand dollars or more for GPS. Erica Lazarova’s > wonderful article about Numa Pompilius on two pages of the ABC of Harmony is > given in the attachment. > "NUMA: MAECENAS OF GLOBAL PEACE AND EARTH CONSTITUTION" is Global Peace > Nobel of the 21st century and its qualitative development. It is a symbol of > revolution of peaceful thinking and GPS from social harmony in the 21st > century, the supporters of which will be millions of people of moderate > means from all spheral classes of humanity as a source of harmony. If the > GHA Honorary Title "World Harmony Creator" was approved primarily for > thinkers, developing the idea and science of world harmony, including the > social, the GHA Honorary Title "NUMA" we propose to approve for peace > sponsors with donations more than 15 thousand dollars and for policy makers > working in global peace direction and donating for it. Status of this GHA > honorary title will be created after its approval in principle and we > welcome your suggestions for it. But the main thing is: who of GHA members > will be the first "NUMA" of the 21st century and will launch this > unprecedented peace initiative for humanity? > If we, the GHA coauthors, members and friends are the true peacemakers of > the 21st century, we must show an example of self-sacrifice for GPS, without > which cannot be global peace in our century. We cannot blame anyone, as we > first need to present a convincing empirical basis for GPS; we are able to > create only by some of our small but tangible sacrifice as donation. From it > now depends the fate of global peace and new honorary title. > We hope for a high peaceful awareness and civic responsibility of the GPS > coauthors, other members and friends of the GHA to save GPS and GHA as a > symbol of peace from harmony. > We invite the GHA members to discuss and approve with your editing this > Appeal together with the GHA new honorary title "NUMA" by your public YES or > NO for 4 days within February 2 to 5 February inclusively and with it inform > about your intention to donate (or inability to do so) the guaranteed amount > in February-March 2014. After this information you will receive from us the > bank account number to which you could transfer your donation. Thank you. > The GPS book Co-editors: > Dr. Leo Semashko > GHA President > (www.peacefromharmony.org) > and > Dr. Glen T. Martin > President, World Constitution and Parliament Assoc. (www.wcpa.biz, > www.worldparliament-gov.org) > President, Institute on World Problems (www.worldproblems.net) > Professor of Philosophy, Radford University (www.radford.edu/gmartin) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > GPS Authors on 01/02/14: > 43 co-authors from 17 countries: > Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Ghana, Greece, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, > Kazakhstan, Nepal, Norway, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, Russia, Slovenia, USA > GPS Authors > Proposed > Donations > In $1000 for every > My guaranteed donation in February-March 2014 > Remarks > Leo Semashko > 1 > 1 > Glen Martin > 1 > Ada Aharoni > 1 > Celia Altschuler > 1 > Ayo Ayoola-Amale > 1 > María Cristina Azcona > 1 > Ammar Banni > 1 > Harold Becker > 1 > Tholana Chakravarthy > 1 > Subhash Chandra > 1 > Bruce Cook > 1 > Renato Corsetti > 1 > Harry Gensler > 1 > Takis Ioannides > 1 > Kurt Johnston > 1 > Ernesto Kahan > 1 > Abdul Kalam > 1 > Muhammad Khan > 1 > Athanassios Koumouris > 1 > Evelin Lindner > 1 > A.K. Merchant > 1 > Charles Mercieca > 1 > Nina Meyerhof > 1 > Matjaž Mulej > 1 > Manijeh Navidnia > 1 > David R. Ord > 1 > Apostolos Paschos > 1 > Bishnu Pathak > 1 > Marianna Poghosyan > 1 > Susana Roberts > 1 > Subhash Sharma > 1 > Russian-speaking > Uraz Baimuratov > 1 > Julia Budnikova > 1 > Dmitry Delyukin > 1 > Ivan Ivanov > 1 > Svetlana Kuskovskaya > 1 > Erica Lazarova > 1 > Roxana Sadykova > 1 > Alexander Semashko > 1 > Andrew Semashko > 1 > Piotr Semashko > 1 > Adolf Shvedchikov > 1 > Alexander Subetto > 1 > TOTAL > $43.000 -- Dr. Surendra Pathak, *Professor & Head, Department of Value Education, **Direc**tor-Research & Dean-Social Sciences**, * *Project Director**: Interdisciplinary Research Projects & World Conference on Existential Harmony **(*www.existentialharmony.org/*) * http://iaseuniversity.academia.edu/SurendraPathak *Vice President GHA, President- GHA-INDIA * (www.peacefromharmony.org), *Special Consultant* :IAEWP (www.iaewp.org), *Member, WCPA* (www.wcpa.biz/), *Member, Advisory Board* : Ground Report India www.groundreportindia.com<http://www.groundreportindia.com/p/advisory-boards.html> websites : www.coexistence.in *IASE Deemed University, Gandhi Vidya Mandir, Sardarshahar, 331401, Dist-Churu, Rajasthan, India, Mobile: +91-9414086007, www.iaseuniversity.org.in, www.gandhividyamandir.org.in, www.bttc-gvm.org.in/, www.iaseve.org.in*