Resolutions of the 18th IAEWP

World Peace Congress:

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 29-31, 2008

Final Draft presented by

Dr. Leo Semashko

IAEWP Advisory Board Chair, GHA President,

leo.semashko@gmail.com, www.peacefromharmony.org

Approved by the IAEWP Secretariat’s Executive Council:

Dr. Charles Mercieca, Pres,

Dr. Surya N. Prasad, Exec V. Pres,

Dr. Nenad Javornik, Secr-Gen

January 1, 2009

Publications:

English: http://www.iaewp.org/newsletter/Vol41-No1-2.pdf

English: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=355

Russian:http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=381
Spanish: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=es_c&key=90
French: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=fr_c&key=123

About IAEWP: International Association of Educators for World Peace (IAEWP) (http://www.iaewp.org). Founded in 1967, it has branches in 80 countries with over 50,000 members. Headquarters in USA and it works with Global Harmony Association (GHA) http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=129; http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=316

CONGRESS GENERAL APPRECIATION

This 18th IAEWP World Peace Congress in Malaysia was a great global event, which took place in Malaysia, October 29-31, 2008.

The first International Martial Arts Festival, devoted to protection of peace, was an integral part of this peace congress. This Congress brought hundreds of people from many countries. The great success was due to the cooperation received from the Malaysian Government. Dr. Steve Rajan, helped with the organization and selection of speakers.

PREAMBLE

Conceptual Vision of New Education: A serious reality we face consists of increasing the global threat of degradation of an industrial civilization through economic crises, growth of people in poverty, environmental pollution, an “arms race” with sophisticated weaponry, and wars threatening nuclear warfare. The US economic liberalism has put the world o­n the verge of financial collapse. As Barack Obama noticed, the USA has dug out to itself this hole and we should get out of it.

Global Harmonious Revolution: This began in 1990 after the USSR’s disintegration and our liberation from two antagonistic systems: capitalism and communism. This is expressed by the European Union with its motto "United in Diversity"; by the "building of a harmonious society" in China since 2006; by economic and interreligious harmony in Singapore and Malaysia, and more of similar events.

Exit from the hole of the current world financial crisis should be sought through alternative strategy of economic harmony, revealed in people’s income. The traditional industrial peace education is false by definition, since it is deprived of the scientific knowledge of peace and reason. It is based o­n fear of war. "Si vis pacem, para bellum - If you want peace, prepare for war." The growth of arms does not strengthen peace but o­nly increases military threats for destruction. Peace can win war and strengthen o­neself worldwide o­nly by social harmony.

Unfortunately, our "peace" education is subordinated to war. It is limited by the national frameworks and it does not overcome the animosity of different cultures. Over the past 60 years the UN itself did not prevent wars. The cost for the preparation of war is criminal because it takes money from the health, education, and social security of people. The military budget of 3 days would achieve the required budget to control malaria.

The true peace slogan is: "If you want peace, create harmony". Therefore harmonious education is built o­n the principle: "If you want peace, create harmony, starting with general harmonious education of children". These ideas, which were expressed in the Congress, should guide teachers and students o­n a way to true peace from harmony, which is held in all cultures and religions.

The modern tendency of harmonization requires general harmonious education. Therefore, a conclusion made in Congress was natural: The World Harmony Peace Academy (WHPA) as the generator of general harmonious education will inevitably be created. For realization of this project it is required $27 million for 3 years, o­n $9 million per o­ne year: It is the paltry sum for the budget of any country, even for the poorest. Hence, any country, even the poorest, has a chance to become a cradle of world harmony and to become a part of a harmonious civilization.

Educators should show that they can bring to students a new scientific knowledge about social harmony as a source of global peace and prosperity. This is that new conceptual vision of our future hope in the promotion and implementation of a permanent peace, which became dominant in the Peace Congress in Kuala Lumpur. As a matter of fact, this has eventually resulted in the following resolutions based o­n IAEWP principles.

IAEWP Principles in Global Harmonization

1 – Putting priority o­n social harmony as a basis for harmonious education that ensures global peace.

2- Supporting constructive peace initiative, thus setting ground for modern harmonization.

3 - Promoting IAEWP goals of peace education, good environment, human rights and disarmament.

4 – Supporting Obama’s principle of "Change,” along with a harmonious education for a 21st century.

5 - Improving our work procedures by searching for “what” is right and not for “who” is right.

Information Sources for the Resolutions

1. Presentations and speeches that were made in the said Peace Congress.

2. Resolutions and proposals, which were made orally in this said world event.

3. Resolutions drafting the project prepared by Dr. Charles Mercieca o­n behalf of the participants.

4. Resolutions and proposals of the Congress participants stated in correspondence after its ending.

5. Global Harmony Association projects jointly with the IAEWP members:

- Harmonious Era Calendar (2006-2008) by 43 authors from 19 countries in 16 languages:

http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=190,

- Magna Carta of Harmony (2007) by 43 authors from 16 countries of the world in 7 languages:

http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=3,

- World Harmony/Peace Academy (2008) by 78 authors from 22 countries in 5 languages:

http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=277,

- Russia/Georgia: peace through education not military (2008) 72 authors in 3 languages:

http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=337,

 


CONGRESS RESOLUTIONS

1. Recognize Tetrasociology as science of social and individual harmony of General Harmonious Education (GHE) & World Harmony Peace Academy (WHPA).
2. Recognize the GHE and WHPA project, which embodies in itself the IAEWP goals of peace as a strategic key project.
3. Consider all IAEWP educational projects also as part of the GHE and WHPA Project.
4. Support creation of the WHPA national branches in the different countries of the world.
5. Make children a top priority in the world as a necessary source for global harmonious peace.
6. Support development of mathematics of harmony developed by the scientists and educators in Canada, India, Russia, Ukraine and other countries.
7. Ask Governments to study prospects of educational reform in each country o­n the basis of the GHE and WHPA Project.
8. Support the peace Aga Khan Academies and experience of harmonious pluralism of Academies in the Moslem world for modern harmonization.
9. Support the "schools of harmony", in the states of Texas and Louisiana since 2000 in the USA as important cultural direction of harmonization.
10. Support the set up of Departments of Peace and Nonviolence already in more than 40 countries.
11. Hold the IAEWP 19th Peace Congress in South Korea o­n October 29-31, 2009 on "General Harmonious Education as a Way to Global Peace".
12. Foresee creation in the Harmony Academies of the scientific laboratories for promoting economic and financial harmonization as urgent for peace.
13. Include in the curricula of harmonious education the technologies of financial harmonization for solution economic crises globally and locally.
14. Create the IAEWP o­nline Portal, which will include conflict resolution courses, peace education materials, kindergarten-12, website links; international university programs in Peace Education; and the open sharing of peace education teaching methods via iPod and web-cam technologies.
15. Create in the Internet IAEWP’s "Peace Forum" and to limit it by discussion of questions of peace, harmony that may include the GHE and WHPA Project. Also, study improvements of the IAEWP, its procedures and the content of the IAEWP Charter.
16. IAEWP may develop an international agency, Volunteers for World Peace, to help well those in dire social and biological needs through the establishment of more IAEWP Chapters everywhere.
17. Support the study, practice and teaching of the science of breathing to promote peace. Breathing is common to all human beings; this may enable us to bring harmony among societies.
18. All organizations need to be encouraged to develop a world peace philosophy that may be viewed as the theory of social harmony to improve learning in all institutes of around the world.

RECOMMENDATIONS TO

THE UNITED NATIONS

1. Support Lama Gangchen’s World Peace Foundation Initiative for a Spiritual Forum at the UN, devoted to general harmonious education of children.

2. Discuss the GHE and WHPA project in the UN to encourage the development of peace education and culture everywhere.

3. Encourage for 2010 the UN First World Harmonic Festival and Summit covering the following topics “Peace Harmonization through Education instead of Militarization: Strategy for Survival, Global Peace, Prosperity and Sustainable Development.

4. Requesting the UN to proclaim the decade 2011-2020 as "Decade of general harmonious education of children for harmonious global peace".

5. Accept the UN Convention "About annual reduction by all states of the charges o­n arms o­n 2 % and achievement of their zero level for 50 years". Money should go for the building of the schools and academies of general harmonious education, and also for liquidation of hunger, poverty and illnesses.

6. In spite of its defects, the UN remains the most important entity in the world to bring about a genuine world peace. To this end, the UN needs to become a federation of people not of governments.

7. This would require the creation of a UN two houses: the senate and the parliament. The nations’ representatives in the senate should be about the same and in parliament in proportionate to the population

8. The governments are the servants of the people and not the other way round; hence, the people may make constructive contributions that should be then respected by governments.

9. Since all people of all nations want peace the governments have a sacrosanct obligation to make the securing of a permanent peace a top priority.

10. War should be viewed by the UN as a crime against humanity and those that promote it, regardless of the position they hold in society, should be condemned by the world court as criminals.

11. The ultimate goal of the United Nations is to bring peace and harmony among all people of all nations who must be viewed as brothers and sisters of o­ne harmonious family of humankind.

12. The UN should put top priority o­n the "Health for All" objectives and programs. The protection of the environment and the treatment of major diseases must be implemented immediately.

13. Every government must safeguard human rights by providing free health care and education to all people, in addition to providing food for the hungry and residences for the homeless.

14. The UN is obligated to develop an international program of arms control along with the abolition of all nuclear weapons and landmines.

15. The singing and implementation of the UN space peace preservation treaty.

16. The UN should ensure unfolding of the “black budgets” wasted o­n “extraterrestrial” military program for the last century.

17. In dealing with each other, every government should adopt healthy dialogues and good diplomacy rather than using belligerent policies.

18. The International Day of Peace the UN established o­n September 21 should be filled with the harmonious educational contents that reveal love and forgiveness in all schools. Students should leave their educational institutions as CITIZENS of the HARMONIOUS PEACE between all people, instead of CITIZENS of ETERNAL WAR with other nations!

Violence: Tool for Self-Defeat

We tend to resort to violence when we become desperate, when we lose all hope in getting what we want by easy or comfortable means. Although violence is generally adopted as a last resort to get what we want, we rarely ever achieve anything o­n a lasting basis through this approach. o­n the contrary, in the long range we end up being big losers, most often be-yond repair. This means that violence is the best and most effective tool for self-defeat.

Violence Leads to Self-Defeat

In Northern Ireland, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) resorted to violence to secure the unity of Northern Ireland and they did not succeed. However, the Egyptians took the lost territory they lost in 1967 from the Israelis through diplomacy not violence.

Violence breads violence and more violence breeds more violence. Each time thousands of innocent people are left dead and numerous places of habitation are destroyed. The result is always misery, poverty, suspicion, hatred disaster, and death.

According to Socrates, the first step to eliminate a problem is to expose it for everyone affected by it to see it clearly in the open. This way people are may know where they stand as to what effective steps to take without resorting to violence.

Exposing the Promoters of Violence

The real source of violence is the weapons industry, which usually goes hand in hand with the military forces. Our real enemies, who are responsible for all violence, may be enlisted as follows:

1. Those who own the weapons industry, along with the investors, the board of directors, and their entire management.

2. Those who work for such industries as a means of making a livelihood or for any other purpose whatsoever.

3. Those who sell such weapons to governments, political groups or factions, and to anyone who is willing to pay the right price.

4. Those who are aware of the lethal use of weapons and remain silent. Such people may be profiting from weapons or they may be receiving donations from those who make the profit. Such recipients may be churches and religious groups.

5. Those who have a special interest in the gun industry because it is found to be a means of making a lot of money fast. Among such groups we find the US National Rifle Association (NRA).

The above five types of people or groups are responsible for the violence which exists everywhere. Those spiritual leaders, who accept donations from those who make or sell weapons must keep in mind that this money is blood money. It is atrocious for churches and religions to use blood money to promote “good causes.” In view of this, we need to realize that violence stems largely from the weapons industry and the military, which has done more harm than good during the last 6,000 years of recorded history.

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Some presentations:

1. Dr. CharlesMercieca. The Crime of War in Iraq:
     http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=129

2. Dr. Leo Semashko. General Harmonious Education as the Best Way to Indestructible Global Peace:
     http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=351

3. Dr. Patricia Rife. An Inter-connected World: 21^st Century Visions of E-Business and E-Leaning, the Pathway to World Peace

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Some presentations:

1. Dr. Charles Mercieca. The Crime of War in Iraq:
     http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=129

2. Dr. Leo Semashko. General Harmonious Education as the Best Way to Indestructible Global Peace:
     http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=351

3. Dr. Patricia Rife. An Inter-connected World: 21^st Century Visions of E-Business and E-Leaning, the Pathway to World Peace

Abstract

E-Business has made a tremendous impact upon the world, and small innovative businesses can be developed worldwide for peaceful purposes.To understand this, we need to review the data o­n the huge rise of Internet users worldwide and the demographics of Asian nations particularly, the largest users of the Internet in terms of 63% growth rate in 3 years.E-marketing is based upon e-commerce, and the shift from the 'old model' of factory production of goods to the 21st century 'web-centric' model of putting customers, or in the case of E-Learning, students, at the center of our e-marketing focus.

E-Learning has tremendous opportunities for peaceful programs and peace education, from basic courses in Conflict Resolution to major curriculum development and university re-structuring.The use of cell phones, iPods, portable computers and the many new hand-held devices will open up huge frontiers for e-Learning, and new universities such as Asia E-University and hundreds of others need new forms of curriculum designed -- let us face new populations of young and old with innovations in e-Learning for peace bridges to be built across and via the Internet.The future is ours to design and create!

Patricia Rife, Ph.D.,

Graduate School of Management and Technology

Masters Degree Programs in

E-Business and Project Management
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Open Letter to Barack Hussein Obama, President-elect of the United States of America

by Dr. Mahathir Mohamad and Former Prime Minister of Malaysia

Global Research, January 2, 2009

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11584

January 1, 2009

Dear Mr. President,

I did not vote for you in the Presidential Election because I am Malaysian.

But I consider myself o­ne of your constituents because what you do or say will affect me and my country as well.

I welcome your promise for change. Certainly your country, the United States of America needs a lot of changes.

That is because America and Americans have become the most hated people in the world. Even Europeans dislike your arrogance. Yet you were o­nce admired and liked because you freed a lot of countries from conquest and subjugation.

It is the custom o­n New Year's day for people to make resolutions. You must have listed your good resolutions already. But may I politely suggest that you also resolve to do the following in pursuit of Change.

1) Stop killing people. The United States is too fond of killing people in order to achieve its objectives. You call it war, but today's wars are not about professional soldiers fighting and killing each other. It is about killing people, ordinary innocent people by the hundreds of thousands. Whole countries will be devastated.

War is primitive, the cavemen's way of dealing with a problem. Stop your arms build up and your planning for future wars.

2) Stop indiscriminate support of Israeli killers with your money and your weapons. The planes and the bombs killing the people of Gaza are from you.

3) Stop applying sanctions against countries which cannot do the same against you.

In Iraq your sanctions killed 500,000 children through depriving them of medicine and food. Others were born deformed.

What have you achieved with this cruelty? Nothing except the hatred of the victims and right-thinking people.

4) Stop your scientists and researchers from inventing new and more diabolical weapons to kill more people more efficiently.

5) Stop your arms manufacturers from producing them. Stop your sales of arms to the world. It is blood money that you earn. It is un-Christian.

6) Stop trying to democratize all the countries of the world. Democracy may work for the United States but it does not always work for other countries.

Don't kill people because they are not democratic. Your crusade to democratize countries has killed more people than the authoritarian Governments which you overthrew. And you have not succeeded anyway.

7) Stop the casinos which you call financial institutions. Stop hedge funds, derivatives and currency trading. Stop banks from lending non-existent money by the billions.

Regulate and supervise your banks. Jail the miscreants who made profits from abusing the system.

8) Sign the Kyoto Protocol and other international agreements.

9) Show respect for the United Nations.

I have many other resolutions for change which I think you should consider and undertake.

But I think you have enough o­n your plate for this 2009th year of the Christian Era.

If you can do o­nly a few of what I suggest, you will be remembered by the world as a great leader. Then the United States will again be the most admired nation. Your embassies will be able to take down the high fences and razor-wire coils that surround them.

May I wish you a Happy New Year and a great Presidency.

Yours Sincerely,

Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad

(Former Prime Minister of Malaysia)

Mahathir Mohamad is a frequent contributor to Global Research.  
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Malaysian Peace Congress: Appeal to the UN and states of the world to establish General Harmonious Education

Dear friends of harmony!

After end of the IAEWP Peace Congress Resolutions, I had an opportunity to create the page if not promised report, so a brief ideological and photographic outline on the GHA website «Peace from harmony» o­n the address in English: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=355 and in Russian: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=381.

This Congress will go down in history as the world first Congress which recognized general harmonious education and its Academies as a way to global peace. It is significant and that, that this Congress passed in the fine country of Islamic harmony: in Malaysia. These two ideas of harmony embodied, o­n the o­ne hand, in IAEWP peace Congress and with another - in the Islamic country are key for this page. The page title is: «World Peace Congress of Educators 2008: Appeal to the UN and states of the world to establish General Harmonious Education» expresses the main historical achievement of the Congress; and the published 50 photos illustrate this achievement and the country of Islamic harmony.

The Congress main result is idea: «The modern tendency of harmonization requires general harmonious education. Therefore, a conclusion made in Congress was natural: The World Harmony Peace Academy (WHPA) as the generator of general harmonious education will inevitably be created. For realization of this project it is required $27 million for 3 years, o­n $9 million per o­ne year: It is the paltry sum for the budget of any country, even for the poorest. Hence, any country, even the poorest, has a chance to become a cradle of world harmony and to become a part of a harmonious civilization».

I am convinced this idea in the near future will seize the world. Scientific understanding a new reality and new perspective of harmonious education opens before humankind and EACH country the essentially new opportunities of development of peace and innovative consciousness of children and youth. Certainly, such opportunities are strongest in few countries similar to Malaysia, which already reached serious successes o­n a way to social harmony. I tried to express it in a photo-session.

Certainly, I have been limited in it. Therefore I shall be grateful to all participants of the Congress who could add a harmony of event and the country by 1-2 photos, having sent them to me to publish o­n this page. I also mentioned some presentations, to which the speakers could add your abstracts in 2-3 paragraphs.

I like to invite the volunteers from different countries to translate the Congress Resolutions (5 pages) to other languages: French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Arabic, Hindi and others to publish o­n the site. Translators will be recognized as "Global Harmony Association Honorary Members» in day of Global Harmony o­n June 21, 2009.

I hope you will like this page and its spirit of harmony which reflects a spirit of harmony of the Congress and Malaysia.

Peace through harmony.

Dr. Leo Semashko,

Global Harmony Association President

15/01/09

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Dear Harmony Creators, Friends!

Excuse my message about the peace Congress in Malaysia delay: I arrived home o­n November 4 in evening but in a very bad condition. o­nly yesterday I can sit down for the computer.

I began to write the detailed report o­n the Congress and to create for it a special page o­n the Global Harmony Association (GHA) site "Peace from Harmony". During o­ne week I shall send you my detailed report. Please, let me now o­nly some the most general thoughts about Congress, global harmonization and Senator Barack Obama’s winning.

The peace Congress in Malaysia (October 29-31), in my opinion, became the outstanding world event in the following aspects:

1. o­n a theoretical level and practical consequences;

2. o­n domination of Islamic culture, which shown pluralism and harmony;

3. o­n the host country, which reached a high level of harmonization;

4. o­n the Congress excellent organization and service, which can not darken some organizational frictions, natural for so large event, collected about 4 thousand people from 120 countries. (Together with Congress passed the first International Martial Arts Festival devoted to protection of peace. This Festival included more than a half of the Congress participants).

The Congress great success merit belongs to Government of Malaysia, which ministers each day took part in its work. The special merit belongs to its direct organizer Dr. Steve Rajan. The Congress participants expressed sincere gratitude to Malaysian Government and Dr. Steve Rajan for organization of the unprecedented peace Congress. The key substantial contribution to Congress success belongs to its 19 speakers from 13 countries. The abstracts of them presentations will be published o­n our site, if they will be kind to send me the abstracts (1 page) during 2-3 days.

The GHA project of the World Harmony/Peace Academy (WHPA) attracted wide attention o­n the Congress: more than 200 participants got acquainted with it through my presentation, books, disks, cards, and main, through personal contacts. About 20 participants from the Asian and African countries expressed desire to join this project. I transferred the GHA letter about creation of Harmony Academy in Malaysia to o­ne of the Government ministers. Five ministers received in a gift the book with the project of Harmony Academy.

Financial crisis and the USA President election also were subjects of wide discussion o­n Congress. With this election, undoubtedly, is connected the world destiny. The financial crisis became a crash of economic liberalism as priority strategy of the degraded industrial society. Global economy, economy of the USA in particular, as source of crisis, require harmonization. Harmonization of global economy is possible o­n the basis of the scientific theory of social harmony instead of traditional industrial liberalism. In an atmosphere of necessity of similar change Senator Barack Obama has won. Obama’s winning is a victory of the global tendency of harmonization in the USA. The epoch of economic harmonization in the USA and world will begin with Obama. o­n a priority place of the industrial liberal values come harmonious values of a new information civilization.

Obama harmonized, first of all, interests of the white and colour population of the country that will be a basis for economic harmonization. (Obama became by the USA 44th President: two quaternions are a symbol of harmony with Pythagoras and in the scientific theory of harmony: in tetrasociology). In connection with Obama’s winning, a significant chance for creation of the Harmony Academy arises in the USA. (At Bush this chance was equal to zero). Therefore I offer to the WHPA General Directorate to direct the letter with the offer to create Harmony Academy in the USA to new President. Obama, which searches for changes, I think, will consider with attention the offer of educational reform in the USA o­n the basis of general harmonious education.

I expected Obama’s winning. Mr. McCain’swinning would be the USA collapse. As the world history of the last 20 years has shown, the way to a harmonious information society lays or through collapse of industrial societies, or through long harmonizing transformation. The collapse examples are USSR, Yugoslavia and some other countries. It is the worst and most dangerous way for the world peace, as it conducts to a set of the new interethnic armed conflicts, which puts obstaclesfor harmonization. The examples of long harmonizing transformation in the different (pluralistic) forms are the European Union, China, Malaysia, Singapore and number of other countries.

In number of these countries are included also the USA in connection with Obama’s winning and his course o­n changes, which can be in the global world o­nly changes in a direction of harmonization. This direction is impossible without appropriate, i.e. general harmonious education, which the first presentation has taken place o­n the outstanding peace Congress in Malaysia.

Certainly, it is o­nly personal vision, which I offer to discuss in Global Harmony Association as organization devoted to global harmonization in all spheres and o­n all directions: education, economy, politics, culture and another.

Best harmonious peace and education wishes,

Dr Leo Semashko:

07/11/08

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