Appendix 2. Matt Meyer et al. Perpetual Peace of Russia and Ukraine (PPRU): The Peacemakers Solidarity Mobilization for
a Peace Culture Renaissance (Please, correct your article, especially with links 2 and 3)
Banner of 11 international peacemaking organizations, which supported the PPRU project
The Peace Science Map of 16 social spheres as the Perpetual Peace Culture Center
The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned… War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. -Elise Boulding, On Peace Cultures and Living with Difference [1] Matt Meyer, Leo Semashko, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Noam Chomsky, Surendra Pathak, René Wadlow, Markandey Rai, Li Ruohong, Roger Kotila, Igor I. Kondrashin, Rodney Atkinson, Kurt Johnston, Julia Budnikova, Natalina Litvinova, Chaitanya Dave, Rudolf Siebert, Bishnu Pathak, Théa Marie Robert, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Takis Ioannidis, Rosa Dalmiglio and Vera Popovich Writing across borders, boundaries, and socio-cultural/political-economic differences is far from easy. Yet it is easier still than the more urgent and ever-changing work of negotiating, mediating, implementing, and monitoring actual, sustainable peace. The cries for an end to war, genocide, and violence ring out across the globe with greater vehemence and urgency than ever before. Yet we seem, as a human species, closer to nuclear and environmental devastation than ever before, with so-called leaders more detached from the realities of everyday resistance and peaceful methodologies for achieving peace. When twenty-two of us added our thoughts, and then our names, to the joint document below on Perpetual Peace for Russia and Ukraine (PPRU), it was not because we had unanimity in ideology, strategic focus, tactical alignments, or even (in some cases) basic political agreements. Taken as a whole, however, the grouping of us – representing “people’s diplomacy” and bottom-up peace research, study, and long-time practice from ten countries – agree that only through people-to-people personal and scientific commitment to communication and direct peacebuilding will peace prevail as a lasting presence in our lives. From Britain (include Ireland), China, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Nepal, Russia, South Africa, and the USA, we agree that the long era of US and NATO imperialism and expansionism must end. From world citizen enthusiasts to the GGHA St. Petersburg (Russian) department, from a Nobel Peace laureate to the most cited living social scientist (Chomsky), as international and national leaders of grassroots-based associations representing millions, we affirm, following Immanuel Kant that PERPETUAL PEACE IS POSSIBLE AND NECESSARY! We do so, not based on starry-eyed utopian dreams, but on experiences of previous world history filled with peacebuilding, and a scientific analysis of what a culture of peace means and how we can build on history, integrating its peacebuilding seeds into our work for a better future. The culture of perpetual peace, accumulated over millennia in various world civilizations and religions today, in the West nuclear civilization since Hiroshima/Nagasaki [4], is absolutely lost, nullified and neutralized by the complete, 100%, dominant militarism of the West world hegemon and its battering ram – the NATO “nuclear alliance”. All world media dependent on it are completely, 100% absorbed by the militaristic narrative, zombifying the population on the inevitability and unavoidability of wars in general, and nuclear genocide in particular. Therefore, American nuclear scientists left 90 seconds of life on the Doomsday clock, less than one chance in 1000 for the survival of humanity [5]. Therefore, today, without the solidary Renaissance of the peace culture, the systemic center of which is the peace science [6], without a transformation, a break from the dominant total narrative of war to the dominance of the total narrative of Eternal Peace, it is unlikely that we can expect any other fate than the saddest. An attempt at such a break in world public consciousness from eternal war to PERPETUAL PEACE using the example of the most acute conflict is proposed by the plan of "Perpetual Peace of Russia and Ukraine" below, supported by 22 peacemakers from 10 countries and 11 international peacemaking organizations. Russian President Putin, at the briefing with BRICS journalists on October 18, confirmed the main hypothesis of the plan “Perpetual Peace of Russia and Ukraine” with the following answer to one of the questions. “If we are talking about some specific peace processes, then these should not be the processes connected with a truce for a week or two or for a year what would allow NATO countries to re-arm and stockpile new ammunition. We need conditions for a long-term, stable and lasting peace…” This means that Russia is fighting the Nazi Kyiv regime only for perpetual peace and nothing else. He also confirmed this intention by saying that “I can say straight away: under no circumstances will Russia allow this (Ukraine nuclear weapons) to happen.”[7] These points, however – as important as they are – can both get lost and also lose us if we are to ignore an part of our analysis that is not nuanced or complicated at all: The war raging in Europe today cannot be ended without Russian involvement, top, middle, and bottom. The demonization of Putin by so many in the West and elsewhere, like the apparent deification of Zelensky, is both historically inaccurate and dangerously anti-peace. For some of us elders, it harkens sharply back to an earlier time when leaders and rank-and-file workers of the Soviet Union shed their lives in the millions defeating the Nazi Third Reich, then immediately (and ridiculously) were called “Nazis” by those in the USA and NATO who sought only to pursue a staunch capitalist program. Collusion with actual Nazis – then and now – was not too great a price to pay so long as one could make Russia out to be the “Red Menace” and source of all evil in the world. We cannot afford to repeat those grievous errors which some US-based, Western, and Global North “progressives” fell and fall into even now. As I wrote in my global overview for the biennial IPRA Special Issue and 50th Anniversary issue of our professional journal Peace & Change, we must learn from history that one-sided proposals leaving one or another adversary without dignity or justice are inherently short-term at best, exacerbating and explosive at worst.[8] I quoted German political scientist and journalist Gabriele Krone-Schmalz, whose deep work on both sides of the Cold War divides led her to lay out a cogent challenge to the shallow and sectarian proposals coming from the “West.” If one accepts the basic, scientific premise of Krone-Schmalz’ “Peace in Europe—Not Without Russia,”[9] then an acceptance of the PPRU outlined here is the concrete, logical extension to follow. Of course, in IPRA we continue our heightened concern about the wars, including gross genocidal policies, being waged in Palestine (especially Gaza, but with worries about the West Bank and Lebanon), in Sudan and the Congo, throughout Indigenous territories across the planet, among Black, Brown, and Indigenous Peoples in the USA and the Global North whose experiences are too often invisibilized by the mainstream human rights and peace institutions of the North, and elsewhere. This personal endorsement, then, is one way in which I assert necessary connections and dialogues with European colleagues who correctly remind us of the thousand-year common history of Russia and the Ukraine, with its Golden Peacemaking rules and histories. I join with the obvious but too often-overlooked understanding that the current European conflict cannot end without a system of peacemaking actions/events in all spheres of Ukraine and Russia. I thus attach the PPRU plan signed on by the aforementioned People’s Diplomats, as a starting point to a scientifically considered end to all war in our time. ***
PERPETUAL PEACE OF RUSSIA AND UKRAINE (PPRU)
Russia and Ukraine, because of bilateral and multilateral negotiations within the framework of BRICS and G20, have come to a consensus on the following positions of their PERPETUAL peace: 1. The common historical nature of perpetual peace for the two countries: Russia and Ukraine are one multinational and multi-confessional family of peoples in harmony of good-neighborly, sovereign and democratic states, which guarantee all human rights on a federalist basis. 2. Russia and Ukraine recognize the canonical Orthodoxy established by the Jerusalem Synod of 1672 as a common spiritual foundation, embodied by the united Orthodox Church and its golden peacemaking rule as the highest moral imperative of relations between the peoples of Russia and Ukraine. only the enemies of the peoples of Russia and Ukraine seek to destroy their common spiritual platform of canonical Orthodoxy in order to condemn these peoples to eternal mutual destruction and endless mutual genocide. 3. on a common spiritual and moral platform, Russia and Ukraine are developing a renewed peace culture and peace science with the safe AI, for which they are creating joint innovative working institutes: - "Department of Peace from Harmony" at the level of the country’s Foreign Ministries, - "Academy of Peace Science and Accelerated Development" at the level of the country’s Academies, - "Center for Safe AI and Digital Economy" at the level of the country’s Ministries of Economy. These innovative institutes (DAC) are recognized as key working tools for the practical implementation of the eternal peace for Russia and Ukraine. 4. Russia and Ukraine recognize both the neutral status of Ukraine outside and without the NATO “nuclear alliance” and other military alliances that threaten the security of Russia, and the neutral status of Russia outside and without any military alliances that threaten the security of Ukraine. 5. on a common spiritual platform and using the DAC innovative tools, Russia and Ukraine, guided by the international principle of equal and indivisible security, excluding its change for some countries at the expense of other countries, ensure the complete demilitarization of Ukraine and predict in the future the complete demilitarization of Russia within the framework and in the course of global demilitarization carried out by the UN on the basis of the approved “Peace Constitution of the Earth” in the future. 6. on a common spiritual platform and using the DAC innovative tools, Russia and Ukraine ensure the complete denazification of Ukraine, which results in the constitutional prohibition of Russophobia, Nazism and any forms of racism by analogy with Russia, where they have long been prohibited by its Constitution and are guaranteed by the organization of culture, media and the entire education system since kindergarten. 7. on a common spiritual platform and using the DAC instruments, Russia and Ukraine guarantee the complete exclusion in the future of any irreconcilable confrontation of new generations, providing them with perpetual peace and harmony instead of perpetual war and blood. 8. on a common spiritual platform and using the instruments of the DAC, Russia and Ukraine recognize the historical, Orthodox and moral justice of the Russian jurisdiction of the territories of Crimea, Donetsk and Lugansk republics, Kherson and Zaporozhe regions within their established borders as integral subjects of the Russian Federation. 9. on a common spiritual platform and using the DAC instruments, Russia and Ukraine recognize the eternal need in the future for an equal international condominium in the joint use of these territories resources in corporate, academic and cultural cooperation on the listed subjects of the Russian Federation. 10. on a common spiritual platform and using the DAC instruments, Russia and Ukraine are jointly developing a long-term “Marshall Plan” as a program for the accelerated restoration of the Ukraine infrastructure and economy (Ukraine Recovery Program) with the participation of the BRICS countries, which will be open to the accession of other countries, including the EU and USA. In order to restore and develop a culture of peace, peace education, peace museums and peace art, interfaith harmony and social diversity in Ukraine, ensure, under the UNESCO auspices, the broad involvement of relevant international institutions in its territory instead of neo-Nazi entities and for their cultural denazification as the “Marshal Plan” special part. 11. on a common spiritual platform and using the DAC instruments, Russia and Ukraine recognize the need for an eternal, egalitarian and inclusive society of the peoples of both sovereign democratic states as their one family with common institutions of people’s diplomacy of a single civil union of their peoples as a guarantee of perpetual peace and the inviolability of their friendship in the future. 12. After agreement by the parties of the previous 11 points by the end of 2024 and their subsequent ratification by the countries’ parliaments, Russia and Ukraine declare since the beginning of 2025 the cessation of all military actions on the contact line and all arms deliveries to it. Since this will begin the implementation of the approved plan for PERPETUAL PEACE OF RUSSIA AND UKRAINE (PPRU). The PPRU plan updated draft was prepared by peacemakers of international peacemaking organizations (individuals listed in by-line above). For complete text, translations, organizational affiliations, commentary, and updates, see: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1219 The similar plan for perpetual peace can be offered to other conflicting and warring countries upon their request, first of all for the solution of the Palestine problem, which can be resolved only from the standpoint of perpetual peace, on the spiritual basis of the religions Golden Rule with using the DAC instruments, as well as an international legal condominium in the disputed territories and in no other way. Bibliography: 1.Ikeda Institute. Elise Boulding: https://www.ikedacenter.org/search?search_api_fulltext=Elise+Boulding 2. Galtung, J. 2009. The Fall of the US Empire – And Then What? Oslo: Kolofon Press (Transcend). 3. Bond, P. and Garcia, A. 2015. BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Critique. London: Pluto Press. See also: https://www.cadtm.org/US-imperial-dominance-BRICS-sub-imperialism-and-unequal-ecological-exchange and here: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1223 4. Semashko L, Corrigan M, et al. Nuclear Civilization ... 2024: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1206 5. Mecklin J. Nuclear Сatastrophe: 90 seconds. 2024: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=924 6. Semashko L, et al. Global Peace Science…of Spherons. – JD Group of Publication, New Delhi. 2016: https://peacefromharmony.org/docs/global-peace-science-2016.pdf 7. Vladimir Putin. Meeting with journalists from BRICS countries. 18-10-24:http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/75349 8. Meyer, M. 2024. New Terms for a New Peace Studies: Introduction to the 2025 Peace and Change Special Issue (50th Anniversary). Peace & Change, 50:1. London: Wiley/Blackwell 9. Krone-Schmaltz, G. 2024. Peace in Europe—Not Without Russia. See http://www.krone-schmalz.de/. Full presentation:https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=121107. Referenced 5 Prepared by Professor Matt Meyer, Secretary General, International Peace Research Association (IPRA): https://wagingnonviolence.org/ipra/2020/06/welcome-from-ipras-co-secretaries-general/, GGHA member: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1034 01-11-24
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