1. Project Description

Full title:Global Peace Science or Peaceloveology: The First Common Good for the 21st Century and every Human, Scientific Revolution of Social Thinking, Creation of Peace from Harmony instead War and Victory of World Peace among Humanity over Militarism and Terrorism.

Abbreviated title: GlobalPeaceScience - GPS.

World textbook for schools, colleges, universities and academies.

Dedicated:

To the GHA 10^th anniversary, February 15, 2015;

UN International Day of Peace, September 21 and

UN Interfaith Harmony Week o­n February 1-7.

The GHA 48^th Project,

Started: March 12, 2013; Approved by GHA o­n September 21, 2013.

Approximate length is about 350 pages.

Approximate time of textbook publication in full final version in English is January 2016; in Russian – is January 2015.

Authors:

Dr. Leo Semashko, GHA President, Project Manager, Editor in Chief and the GHA 57 members: Roxana Sadykova, Ernesto Kahan, Andrei Semashko, Julia Budnikova, Surendra Pathak, Heli Habyarimana,Ayo Ayoola-Amale, Mohammad Khan, Ivan Ivanov, Svetlana Kuskovskaya, Vera Popovich, Dmitry Delyukin, Alexander Semashko, Piotr Semashko, Svetlana Vetrova, Alexander Subetto, Andrei Smirnov, Uraz Baimuratov, Bishnu Pathak, Nina Meyerhof, Adolf Shvedchikov, APJ Abdul Kalam, A.K. Merchant, Maria Cristina Azcona, Susana Roberts, Manijeh Navidnia, Subhash Chandra, Kurt Johnson, David Ord, Laj Utreja, Timi Ecimovic, Apostolos Paschos, Athanassios Koumouris, Takis Ioannides, Charles Mercieca, Maitreyee Roy, Matjaz Mulej, Reimon Bachika, Subhash Sharma, Andrew Valyavskay, Olga Kashina, Leela Pradhan, Kanakmal Dugar, Brigkartar Singh, Igor Kondrashin, Yuri Tsymbalist, Terrence Paupp, Erica Lazarova, Naresh Goyal, Harold Becker, Renato Corsetti, Herman Dufour, Francois Houtart, Evelyn Lindner, Marianne Pogosyan, Leonid Tymoshenko, Chinta Yogi and others; (The list will be update)

From 20 countries: Argentina, Armenia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Ghana, Greece, India, Israel, Iran, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Norway, Pakistan, Russia, Rwanda, Slovenia, USA

The Project is published in two languages:

English: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=585

Russian: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=606
          The source of project funding is donations from GHA members. Each of the book’s coauthors made a donation for global peace to prepare its science and publish this textbook.
 

                                                                  2. Meaning, Conception and Significance

Historical meaning of GPS: GPS is a victory of peace over war in the 21st century; it is a victory of global peace among nations of the Earth over militarism and terrorism as the major threats to survival of humanity. GPS discloses the methods and ways to achieve this victory as a turning point for the human history from military to peaceful.

          GPS Conception. To date, o­n the GHA website were published the book four Chapters from 12 of its contents in the preliminary version. The first, key chapter develops logic and theory of harmonious classes of the population - SPHERONS as objective sources and actors of global peace. The statistical, empirical evidences of SPHERONS are presented in the second chapter. In the next 10 chapters reveals the different dimensions of SPHERONS harmony: historical, philosophical, religious, political, democratic, legal, financial, economic, ecological and others as necessary conditions for global peace.

The project signification is determined by the value of peacebuilding and place of the project in it. Peacebuilding has great importance in the life of humanity, which discusses this problem throughout all history yet still retains a primarily military emphasis.In so doing, the military focus precludes and eliminates a broader focus o­n all aspect of “human security”, which emphasizes peace and human rights at its core. The military focus can never accomplish its stated mission of bringing peace because it is inherently antithetical to the very foundations of peace, which are grounded in consciousness, dialogue and a growing mutual understanding of humane priorities instead geopolitical calculations.

This problem has become particularly acute in our time, when the forces of war have reached such power that can destroy humanity and the planet in a few minutes. Unfortunately, in peacemaking rooted false principle that recognizes the war as main way for peace: "If you want peace - prepare for war." In reality, this principle has led to a never-ending arms race and the tremendous increase in their efficiency, which has put humanity to the brink of self-destruction. This is the result of more than 200 years of intensive development of military science, which has thousands of academies, institutes and colleges all over the world. o­n its basis, a powerful military-industrial complex was formed as the war infrastructure with millions of employees and trillions of dollars of annual funding, which is according to official data about 10% of GDP and according to unofficial and expert data - in 2-3 times more.

In contrast to the war, peace has not had the benefit of science and a valid scientific theory - until now! Therefore, it is practically devoid its own infrastructure, beyond which it is infinitely weak before the war in comparison to its global arms industry, permanent war economy, and is very fragile in front of all military threats. Therefore, the main objective of our peacebuilding project is an attempt to create “Global Peace Science” (GPS) with main principle: "If you want peace – create the SPHERONS harmony." Such a science, by definition, will focus o­n peace-building, prevention and peaceful resolution of conflicts as a center of its agenda. Absence of a similarly developed science, in our view, is the main challenge of peacebuilding. It will allow overcoming the backlog in nearly 200 years of social/peace sciences from military engineering sciences.

Creating this science of peace will be a revolution in thought and consciousness of peaceful solutions and in social sciences as a whole. This science will move from subjectivism of private, intuitive and national ideas/concepts of peace and solving conflicts to a single objective point of view equally necessary and acceptable to all parties of the conflict. Of course, it did not reject but combine and store the subjective peace ideas. This science will transform peacebuilding in fundamental system activity linked with all spheres of social life. Of course, our project - it is o­nly the first and far from a perfect attempt - but it will give impetus and mark the beginning of a new kind of scientific activity aimed at ensuring global peacebuilding.

The main contribution of our project to the solution of the problem lies in discovery and development of objective harmonious classes of the population employed in the four spheres of social production. These classes we have called SPHERONS, which are constant, in their objective social nature, sources and actors of peace at all levels from local to global. In this scientific knowledge are needed all people, all nations and humanity as a whole. But first of all it is necessary to governing bodies at all levels to anticipate the possibility of armed conflicts, prevent and eliminate them from human society that is global peace, without which modern humanity is not able to survive and thrive. In accordance with this science, peace will be created not through prepare to war and the threat of war but through conscious construction of social harmony among all private groups within SPHERONS at all levels and in all societies through global harmonious education in GPS since childhood. It will ensure global peace with harmonious consciousness of all peoples as a spiritual source of peace. Therefore GPS is the first social need and the first common good for every human being, for every nation and for humanity as a whole in the 21st century. This is necessary in order to overcome the humanitarian crisis of civilization and stop the continuing growth of violence. GPS is a peacebuilding focus and center of our project.