[gha] Re: The UN Decade of Interfaith Harmonious Education for 2014-2024 Proposal Comment by Ernesto Kahan
- From: "Prof. Ernesto Kahan" <ekahan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 08:18:41 +0200
Dear friends, Leo and all
I agree with Norm and Laj, that justice is important to achieve a harmonic
civilization. The great question is what is first justice, tolerance or
harmony?
During years I have sustain that before this achievement it will be necessary
to make an universal agreement towards harmony, and for that a world wide
campaign for tolerance will be the key issue.
The present Interfaith Harmonious Education for 2014-2024 Proposal is
important. However we should not forget the great power of people without any
religion, like myself.
Another point is "harmonization of science and religion". I recognize that I do
not understand if we are talking about "harmonization" of each part separately
- What is harmonization of science? Maybe, what may pretend to say is the
creation of a constructive dialogue among them towards an harmonic world.
Made these observations I agree with the program.
Ernesto Kahan
Prof. Emeritus Dr. Ernesto Kahan MD University Professor - Poet - Physician
Tel Aviv University, Israel.
1st Vice President & Secretary General- World Academy of Arts and Culture USA
Former Vice President of IPPNW (Association awarded the Nobel Peace Prize) and
the actual president of the Israeli Branch
Honorary President co Founder United Nations of Letters
Honorary President of SIPEA - International Society of Poets Writers and Artists
Vice President Intl Forum for Literature and Culture of Peace (IFLAC)
Co-President -UHE- International Union of Hispano-American Writers
Former 1st Vice President. Global Harmony Association (GHA). GHA World Harmony
Creator
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Subject: [gha] Re: The UN Decade of Interfaith Harmonious Education for
2014-2024 Proposal
Dear All:
I concur with Norm in stating that it is impossible to achieve harmony without
justice, whether caused by economics, politics or faith. Two of the most
important factors that compromise our ability to properly and correctly address
the issues that we face are the man-made divisions of the powerful and the
powerless and the economics of global trade. However, unjustified wars,
disproportionate wealth-gaps, inequitable access to food, healthcare,
education, opportunity and fair governance remain related factors. These
factors contribute to differences that cause conflicts. The differences that
really cause conflict are the resulting human suffering and injustice. That's
where harmony is important.
Love and regards,
Laj Utreja
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Norman Kurland <thirdway@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I say this reluctantly, but I fail to see any mention of Justice as an
essential condition for achieving Peace, Harmony or Love. I totally agree with
Pope Paul VI that "If you want Peace, work for Justice." For definition of
such terms as "Justice," "Social Justice," or Economic Justice" see the Just
Third Way Glossary at http://www.cesj.org/definitions/glossary.html. For a
vision that would deliver Peace, Prosperity and Freedom through Justice for
all, see http://www.cesj.org/thirdway/paradigmpapers/jtw-greengrowth.pdf.
While the UN, the US, the Eurozone countries countries and all other nation
states are failing to address the injustices of the global economy, the good
people now associated with GHA can succeed in leading the way to a solution by
reflecting on the message delivered in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06vP84SqnS4. And to strengthen the bonds of the
GHA in its educational outreach to interfaith leaders and scholars in all
cultures, we should all seriously consider the wisdom of other global moral
leaders in the attached set of quotes.
In Justice,
Norm
--
Norman G. Kurland, J.D.
President
Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ)
P.O. Box 40711, Washington, DC 20016
(O) 703-243-5155, (F) 703-243-5935
(E) thirdway@xxxxxxxx
(Web) http://www.cesj.org
"Own or be owned."
On 3/3/13 6:06 PM, maytham.alsalman@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Dear Interfaith friends and partners
I am fully supportive of the idea hoping it matures into an initiative
Love and respect to all
Sheikh Maytham Al Salman
Bahrain Interfaith
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 4, 2013, at 12:23 AM, María Cristina Azcona <mcrisazcona@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I strongly agree with the proposal and the document
Maria C Azcona
2013/3/2 Leo Semashko <leo.semashko@xxxxxxxxx>
Dear GHA members, interfaith friends,
An excellent idea matured within the GHA: the idea UN Decade of
Interfaith Harmonious Education for 2014-2024, which requires a logical and
organizational completion.
The first and most important. Implementation of this idea will
significantly enhance the harmonizing social mission of States, the UN members,
and religions and their churches in the life of society through the development
of global harmonious interfaith education. The issue of enhancing the social
role of the state and religion through harmonious education is very important
for both of them in our time of burgeoning social and religious conflicts in
the world. The harmonizing social mission of state and religion is very
relevant and for the population, which faces growing global challenges
demanding from them adequate responses in a non-violent way of global
harmonious interfaith education, rather than on a way of global militarization
and violent solutions.
Second. The need for global interfaith harmonious education has reached
a new level to meet the challenges of globalization in the 21st century. The
existing system of national, common and elite education does not respond to the
global challenges of our time and fails to prepare the young generations for
non-violent harmonious solutions to any social problems. This is a key flaw of
modern education that can be overcome only in harmonization as in interfaith
perspective, and through harmonization of science and religion.
These two key global motives determine the relevance and necessity of
the UN Decade of Interfaith Harmonious Education for the years 2014-2024, which
will give a good start and order for the most favorable global trends of
spiritual and educational nature. The common good of this UN Decade is so
obvious that it requires no special logical proofs.
Organizing to complete this idea may proceed from its initiation within
the UN by any organizations involved in the UN one way or another. This can be
the Interfaith Coalition of Partnership with the UN, or the head of any state
who can offer this idea in the UN General Session. Obviously, the most logical
initiator of this idea may be Jordan's King Abdullah II as the initiator of the
World Interfaith Harmony Week in the UN, 2010. In this regard, we propose to
add the GHA offers to Jordan's King in the GHA Project of Interfaith Harmony as
a new, ninth point with the following content:
Initiate in the UN, as a development of initiative 2010, a proposal of
the UN Decade of Interfaith Harmonious Education for 2014-2024, which will
strengthen a harmonizing mission of state and religion in global society in a
non-violent peacemaking way of qualitative renewal of the education system in
the world, especially in the direction of interfaith harmony instead of
militarization.
We offer within three days, until March 5, inclusively, to discuss this
proposal and include it in the GHA Interfaith Harmony Project, in section 9:
www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=541.
We understand that the common benefit of this proposal is so obvious
that it requires no special discussion. There may be a difference only in the
formulations of this proposal. Therefore, in this case, we will take your
silence as a sign of consent and approval of this proposal and welcome all of
its amendments to improve it. Thank you for supporting this proposal.
Best harmony wishes,
Dr. Leo Semashko, GHA President
Dr. Bruce Cook, GHA-USA President
www.peacefromharmony.org
02/03/13
--
María Cristina Azcona
@macazcona
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