When the inner love is limited by various conditions: financial situation, sources of income, education, occupation, social groups and other frameworks, then it leaves room for internal and external hatred, therefore, for violence and war. The most important social condition of unconditional love are SPHERONS, harmonious and loving each other classes of the population, overcoming all antagonistic divisions. Even intuitive awareness of them has beneficial effects o­n the growth and strengthening of internal unconditional love as a source of personal and global peace. The love leads people to o­neness, unity and peace and their harmonious associations, primarily SPHERONS, lead people to love, to a truly collective humanity. Love, like peace, is born and comes from harmony, in turn, fueling peace and harmony. The value-pool of harmony mutually nourishing and strengthens all the values ​​included in it, especially love and harmony, of which o­nly and can thrive personal and global peace.

This is our nonprofit, The Love Foundation [4], whose conceptual mission is to inspire people to love unconditionally and its main initiative, Global Love Day each May1st, which is celebrated in many countries now [5; 6]. Here develops paradigm of global family to bring humanity global peace and love from harmony, actors and architects which we have the honor to be.

Harold W. Becker,

Founding President, The Love Foundation, Inc., www.thelovefoundation.com,

Address: Florida, USA

Dr. Leo Semashko, Initiator and Editor in Chief of the book "Global Peace Science"

6.2.3. Noospheric Principle of Global Peace. Alexander Subetto

In the appeal "For World Without Wars and Violence", created at the end of June 2013 o­n suggestion of Dr. Shanti P. Jayasekara and V.V. Lukoyanova and exposed in the Internet, I wrote: "The world of humanity is in point of no return. The first phase of Global Environmental Catastrophe o­n the turn of the 80s-90s of XX century took place and continues to evolve. For the first time the human himself, his aggressive form of wildlife management in the world economy, jeopardized their existence not o­nly as a civilization o­n planet Earth but also as a species, including a threat to planetary life in general ... The world of dominance, competition and power of rich over the poor, the world of wars and violence means ecological destruction of all people in the world in near future, to the middle of the XXI century ... The time of true man, the true reason, truth - noospheral - Harmony, an era of Noospheral Spiritual Ecological Socialism as era of peace without war is coming! "[7].

The imperative of a world without wars and violence - "global peace", as it was called by the Global Harmony Association (GHA) [8] is an integral part of the ecological imperative of survival. Resolution of the geopolitical disputes through wars when required collective efforts of humanity to address global problems is a form of developing market-capitalist agony of humanity, leading it to environmental destruction: humanity dies for metal, i.e. for the capital, for the money that accumulates by the global financial power.

The mission of "global peace science" (GPS) is to equip humanity with exit strategy from both environmental and capitalist market dead end of history. But that GPS could fulfill this mission, it must be noospheral. We are talking about the noospheral paradigm of GPS based o­n noosferizm as scientific and ideological system [9].

Noosphere, according to Vernadsky, is a new state of the Earth biosphere, where the planetary scientific thought, armed with great energy economic impact o­n the environment (the "energy of culture," wrote Vernadsky), begins to play the role of geological factor of evolution. The first phase of a global ecological catastrophe defined advent of the Great Evolutionary Fracture, directed at changing the social bases of human evolution from market-capitalist to socialist-noospheral.

The Future Noosphere Era is the era of Planetary Cooperation of nations and ethnic groups o­n the basis of a world without wars and violence [10]. The planetary cooperation in the XXI century has noospheral vector. Its purpose is to ensure mankind harmonious noospheral development as managed evolution of society and nature. The transition to the Age of Cooperation for humanity means that it turned out to become a new, united global entity, in which its diversity provides sustainable development" [11].

Thus, GPS is in its infancy. Its indispensable vector and principle is noosferizm, i.e. the inalienable from the nature priority understanding and building of global peace through a united science about noosphere and human [12], the synthesis of which has already begun in Russia in Noospheric Public Academy of Sciences as and in GHA.

Alexander Subetto, PhD

President of the Noosphere Public Academy of Sciences, Honorary Scientist of Russian Federation, Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor.

Address: St. Petersburg, Russia. Web: www.trinitas.ru/rus/doc/avtr/00/0008-00.htm

E-mail: subal1937 {@} yandex.ru

Editor's comment:

1. The Noospheric vector or noosferizm principle of GPS is its really necessary attribute that is accounted and structured in SOCIONOME as the GPS theoretical core.

2. Unfortunately, Alexander Subetto’s noosferizm is not structured and do not reveal the complex relationships of social and natural structures, that does not allow to raise them awareness o­n the scientific level.

3. In general, loyal criticism of the capitalist market, the competition, the power of capital, and super enrichment not take into account the possibility of harmonizing the market, capital and competition, i.e. their transformation as necessary economic mechanisms into qualitatively new, harmonious forms through the new, integrated, social science and spheral, harmonious organization of SPHERONS’ power. The hopes for traditional socialism with a single, state-owned, from our point of view, are unfounded and do not provide peace.

4. Unfortunately, the author ignores groundlessly the discovery of spheral classes of the population - SPHERONS as actors of global peace and social reconstruction of society in a whole o­n the principles of harmony. The reliance o­n the traditional "ethnic groups and nations", and even more o­n antagonistic Marxist classes of militaristic and exploitative civilization, does not allow to rely o­n Subetto’s optimistic conclusions about peace, harmony and justice of his "noospheral-socialist society."

Dr. Leo Semashko, Initiator and Editor in Chief of the book "Global Peace Science"

6.2.4. Principle of Culture as Universal Foundation of Global Peace at

Nicholas Roerich. Julia Budnikova

...By gunshots good nature is not recovered.

It is joyful to think of good nature destined for good.

It is good to meet and have a conversation about all what leads to good deeds.

Let us not be afraid of accumulation and repetition of definitions of the good.

Good is needed. Good is urgent. Good spins the world.

Nicholas Roerich [13]

Thinking over the roots of Global Peace Science and first steps in its practical appliance we cannot leave out the name of Nicholas Roerich who had raised the Banner of peace over the planet and showed the new prospects for further development of humanity. “Peace through Culture” is not just a social movement but an elaborate scientific worldview, a holistic anthropological paradigm of peace's universality as universality of culture.

Nicholas Roerich is not just a world-known artist but an "apostle of culture". In the first half of catastrophic XX century he raised over different continents the Banner for protection of cultural values from elimination and vandalism. Roerich Pact was o­ne of the first experiences of creating a collective agreement and a security system based o­n mutual recognition of absolute values of being.

For years heading towards realization of the idea of this kind of treaty Nicholas Roerich was using extensively his scholastic attainments received at the Faculty of Law at Saint Petersburg State University (1893–1897). Of greatest value to him was a class of F.F. Martens (1845–1909), the founder of school of international law. He was a bright public figure and lawyer, an author of «Modern international law of civilized nations» (1882–1883) – the first legal writing of such kind and scale in Russia. This textbook translated into most world languages in its author’s lifetime, which became the table-top book for diplomats all over the world became the basis of the class which Roerich attended in spring of 1897 in University. Roerich with enthusiasm accepted the fundamental ideas of Martens and knew his other writings. In fact Martens was the author of programme of the First Hague Peace conference which was convened in 1899 o­n initiative of the Russian Emperor Nicholas II and laid the foundation of process of disarmament and regulation of conduct of war. Martens and his students were very active in working out the basic framework of the agreements and took part in the Second Hague Peace conference (1907).

The direct connection to the humanistic heritage of Martens and his followers is seen in preamble and basic framework of the Roerich Pact and even in its title («Treaty o­n the protection of artistic and scientific institutions and historic monuments»). Roerich's knowledge of international law helped him to turn his idea of the Pact into reality with implementation of Russian tradition of peace-building.

Peace through Culture is not just a social movement but an elaborate philosophical worldview, a holistic anthropological paradigm of world's universality as universality of culture. The connection between cultural and social progress and development of human as a biological species is obvious for the artist. Neglect for culture and decline of it lead to running wild with its violence and bloodshed. «Culture is a cult of Light», – Roerich used to say. According to him Culture, based o­n culture of the spirit and developing of the «good nature», has nothing to do with blessings of civilization. Works of art with their energy have decisive significance in the battle between Light and dark, which can be identified o­n the feature of "inhuman cruelty".

One more avant-garde idea was Roerich's thought o­n common roots of spirituality of different cultures which meant that cultural heritage was not the achievement of a certain nation but of all mankind. Destruction of historical monuments, temples and museums was considered as crime against humanity, hostility and war between people as a sign of their ignorance. As a symbol for this universal idea a universal sign possessing sacral meaning was needed. The sign of Banner of peace (three amaranth red spheres in a circle) had a trinity sign as its prototype. This symbol which dates back to Neolithic era is seen in cultures of different countries and nations. Holy Trinity of Christianity, Trimurti of Hinduism (Brahma-Shiva-Vishnu), Triratna of Buddhism (Buddha-Dharma-Sangha) – this list could be continued.

Within this book developing the ideas of Tetrasociology it is interesting to mention that Roerich had supplemented the ancient threefold sign with the forth element – a circle which is a symbol of harmony highlighting the importance of coordinated union within the triad. When asked about the meaning of Banner of peace sign he used to explain it as Past-Present-Future in the circle of Eternity or Religion-Science-Art in the circle of Culture. Roerich's conception of universality of culture is not the result of an abstractive research in the field of history of art but a totally new approach. He pointed at the importance of understanding the quintessence and the most sacred part of any authentic culture which according to Roerich was the concepts of Messiah and the future New era. This was considered by him as a key to understanding and concord between people and nations.

"Messiah, Maitreya, Muntazar, Mitolo and all the glorious names of the same most sacred and most heartfelt aspiration of the humankind. With most delight prophets talk about the future. Read over all the leafs of the Bible which expresses the most lightful hope of the people; read over the words of Buddha prophesying about Maitreya; look how tenderly Muslims talk about the prophet of the future...

In most gloomy times amidst narrowness of thoughtlessness most clearly sounded the encouraging voice speaking about the great Advent, about the New Era - time when mankind would be able to use wisely and inspiredly all the opportunities they had been given. Everybody interprets this Bright Era in his own way but all agree in the language of heart. In every heart, in the whole human world their lives the same striving to Good... Is it hard to agree in Good? Let us remember all the legends about Saints of all times and nations... Saints become panhuman and belong to the whole world as steps of true evolution of humankind [14].

Roerich had repeatedly pointed at special planetary mission of Russia which he named «the land of Saint Sergius» and which according to him «had been given the fearless determination towards renewal of life». Unlike some other states Russia has no interest in war. Not historical memory which keeps record of two World Wars in which Russia were involved against its will, nor the culture of the country based o­n Orthodoxy and «Russian idea» (the priority of spiritual values and service to ethical law) predetermine such an interest. The Reverend Sergius of Radonezh, «Builder of Russia» (1314—1392) had bequeathed the Russian people and their leaders Unity, good will and concord of the nonfusing and indivisible Holy Trinity. He blessed Prince Dmitry and two monks not just for battle with Mongols, invaders encroaching o­n independence of the country but making a historiosophical generalization – for a battle with the powers of evil. The enemy which Russian troops fought o­n Don river was a military empire setting domination, exploitation and demolition of human freedom.

This pattern has been reproduced in the historical reality again and again each time forming potential or real causes for war. In this term the way of peacekeeping is uncompromising struggle. Principles of peaceful social life in harmony and its unconditional advocacy from any aggressor (Mongols, Swedes, Napoleon, Hitler, etc.) are the ultimate historical values of Russia to which it remains faithful to the present day.

Julia Budnikova, deputy director of the Roerich family Museum and Institute (www.roerich.spb.ru), winner of Saint-Petersburg Governmental Prize for culture, president of GHA-Russia, vice president of GHA: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=577

Address: Saint-Petersburg, Russia. E-mail: jb {@} roerich.spb.ru

6.2.5. Principle of Spheral/Societal Security of Global Peace.

Manijeh Navidnia

This article is a continuation of my article o­n the same subject in the ABC of Harmony [15]. It was set inextricable link and dependent societal/spheral security from the level of social harmony. Consequently, societal security is an essential attribute of global peace, which, like security, has a source of social harmony. As adopted in this book (see the first chapter), the source and actors of social harmony is harmonious classes of the population employed in four spheres of social production - SPHERONS. In this regard, logically now analyze societal security as necessary consequence of SPHERONS together with global peace. Societal security in its symbiosis with global peace performs instrumental function of SPHERONS for its provision. Therefore, societal security can be recognized as a necessary principle of global peace, for which both SPHERONS are full responsible. True and full-scale security can o­nly give global peace from harmony of SPHERONS, as shown in the preceding chapters.

The SPHERONS concept theoretically allows defining the following key features of societal security:

1. "Reference object" and "type of threat", corresponding to the four spheres of social production, in which workers SPHERONS and

2. The phases or stages/levels of societal security, constituting an endless cycle of global peace, the limit to improve which does not exist.

The security assessment requires extensive statistics, in the first place, the threats and risks in each social sphere. Unfortunately, for most of them, such statistics do not exist. It can get a powerful stimulus for the development in connection with the development of global statistics of SPHERONS (see chap. 2). Theoretical development phases and cycles of societal security in every sphere within their harmonization carried SPHERONS is a new important task of global peace science, which requires a lot of efforts and time.

Manijeh Navidnia PhD.,

Professor of Sociology, faculty member at Azad University, Garmsar Branch, Iran

Web: www.SocietalSecurity.com E-mail: navidnia {@} hotmail.com

6.2.6. Principle of Tolerance of Global Peace. Ernesto Kahan

"On the threshold of the new millennium, when the prevalent ideologies have come into contradiction with reality, Global Harmony Association makes its appearance offering humanity the necessary philosophical vision of peace from world harmony".

Ernesto Kahan[3, 84]

"Powerful leaders know that if we continue without making changes there will be a universal

tragedy". Ernesto Kahan

"People don’t get along because they fear each other. People fear each other because they don’t know each other. They don’t know each other because they have not properly communicated with each other."- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [16]

Theissues of this article, which are very important and existential for present humankind, were proposed byDr. LeoSemashko, theeditorof this book. Since they can fill thecontents ofone or moretreaties, I will try topresent a summary of my way of thinking and answering the questions:a) Whyit is necessary and urgent to act in order develop processfor harmonyand peace? Or as Dr. Semashko presented as Need for Tetranet Revolution in the 21^st Century and b) Why mustart andscience interact in order tomake this processsuccessful?

In a previous communication [17], I already presented the interaction between tolerance, harmony and responsibility for world peace, as it showed in fig 18.

Figure 18: Tetranet interaction between tolerance, harmony and responsibility for world peace

In the mentioned communication this process towards the achievement of universal peace is explained due to the fact that for first time in the documented history of man, the human society is facing two real opposed feasibilities. "On o­ne hand, by the use of atomic weapons or slowly by the destruction of the environment, there is a real possibility to completely exterminate life o­n Earth; and o­n the other hand, it is now possible to totally eliminate hunger in the world - what seemed incredible just few years ago - and also to achieve a universal contract of harmony that will assure the peaceful relationship among the countries. Such a universal contract of harmony can be achieve by tolerance which is a kind of negotiated acceptance by each component or by groups of the components of the system. Harmony should be the basis for the peaceful coexistence among nations and political agreements. Harmony can never be eternal and complete, but is essential in the present stage of our civilization if mankind have to survive"[17].

In a kind of a poetic way I say that

Without peace there will be no life

Without harmony there will be no peace

Without tolerance there will be no harmony

Without a culture of peace there will be no tolerance

Without a spiritual culture there will be no culture of peace

Without education there will be no spiritual culture of peace

Without democracy there will be no education

Without education there will be dependence, war and pain

THE END OF LIFE!

Concerning the question: "Whyart andsciencemust interact tomake this processsuccessful?" the answer is obvious because both, scientists and artists should be responsible and free thinkers, ethically and socially.

In the current world, after all the greatest technological and scientific advancements, there is still much inequality of opportunities and terrible misery. Today, we write and publish in Web pages and magazines of literature, but we do not reach at the population, since o­nly a very small part of it can read and write and have access to Internet. In the World Conference o­n Science, under the auspices of UNESCO in Budapest, July 1999 [19] scientists declared that they concede "that scientific research and the use of scientific knowledge should respect human rights and the dignity of human beings, in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the light of the Universal Declaration o­n the Human Genome".

Both must sustain mutual dialogues and proposals for a more secure and dignified society; because poetry, music, dance, painting, sculpture… each o­ne, as I said, with a different language of expression, tries to stimulate our emotions and for that they look for to touch the fibers of our more intimate and deep feelings of our life. However, we must consider that in the present human society, art and science are quite separated in the methodology used for study and action. This is the result of the different approach between the scientific objectivism and the artistic subjectivism that occurred as the consequence of the Scientific Method introduced during the modern era [20].

The Oxford English Dictionary defines the scientific method as: "a method or procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses" [21]. Art and science began to analyze the problems of society in an independent angle and without interacting among them.Furthermore, the different methodology utilized and the separated development of linguistic expressions of communication, were factors for the current lack of dialogue between science and art [20].

This separation did not exist in the past. In the Renaissance scientists and artists were integrated and had a common field of action.For example, Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) was painter, sculptor, architect, physics, cosmologist, geologist, engineer and anatomist.Since it is expected and necessary a new era of communication between artists and scientists, a common work should begin; obviously, in the framework of the new dimension of science and technology.

We think that the contemporary community can find in the "Tetranet interaction between tolerance, harmony and responsibility for world peace" (Fig 18), the potentiality to orient the dialogue between science and art, through ways that will guide the present globalized society towards rails of survival and progress.

Writers in general and poets in particular must be the lyric voice of the peoples in a dialogue with scientists to contribute to a new humanistic development of science and technology for the progress and survival of humanity. Although today poetry is in a romance unto itself, the poets have a great challenge, to be the messengers and the guardians of the language, to enrich it and keep alive the flame of our condition as social human beings in cultural communication.

My letter to the Universal Peace [22]

You, beloved

are my tree of golden apples

the road of the wheat fields of tolerance,

the song of the winters waiting for more heat,

and my letter - of this morning –

which I left in your mailbox,

and says: I love you.

Peace,

immaculate sweet maiden,

roses dreaming of the sunlight

Oh life!Oh beloved!

The rain o­n you, the rain in the garden

and my kisses toyou

do you feel them?

Prof. Emeritus Dr. Ernesto Kahan MD University Professor - Poet – Physician

Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Academician - International Academy of Sciences, Technology, Education and Humanities (AICTEH) – Spain; Honorary President - Israeli Association Writers. Spanish Branch;

1st Vice President - 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;

Vice President Intl Forum for Literature and Culture of Peace (IFLAC);

GHA World Harmony Creator and Vice President. Global Harmony Association (GHA).

http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=338;

http://lialdia.com/tag/profesor-ernesto-kahan/

Editor's comment:

Certainly, tolerance is a necessary principle and component of global peace from harmony. But this positive subjective attitude, education in it and its culture are strong o­nly o­n the basis of objective scientific knowledge of system global peace, presented in global peace science (GPS), which is its ultimate objective basis in people's minds.

Dr. Leo Semashko, Initiator and Editor in Chief of the book "Global Peace Science"

6.2.7. Principle of the Highest Dignity of Global Peace. Evelin Lindner

This article develops the ideas of my past work of the ABC of harmony [23, 176-177]. Human relationships are rapidly changing in the world today. During the past millennia, in most parts of the world, relationships were characterized by the relentless ranking of human worthiness—it was generally accepted that some people were born high and others were born low. This is the dominator model of society, as Riane Eisler (1988) calls it. Today, this model is no longer feasible, at least not in the long term.

Humankind is beginning to see the value of respecting all people as equal in worthiness rather than as unequal. We emphasize that the objective equality of SPHERONS in their social nature creates an unshakable foundation for equality of people in dignity and to avoid their humiliation. Also nature is included in this transition. All around the world, we observe how people attempt to move toward partnership (Eisler) or non-domination (Pettit, 1997), be it partnership among ourselves or with nature. “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights,” this is the first sentence of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly o­n December 10, 1948.This sentence invites all human beings into one single human family, no longer a divided family, and a family where all members are respected as equal in dignity. In the context of human rights ideals, it is felt as humiliation when this equal membership is being denied. Equal dignity is recognized in the Declaration as o­ne of the bases of global peace, thus humiliation of dignity of people is o­ne of the sources of wars.

In the English language, the verb to humiliate had a prosocial meaning until 1757. It was generally accepted that superiors would show inferiors their proper place in the social order by exposing them to humiliation. This practice ranged from rigid hierarchical seating orders to beating and torturing. It was in an encyclopedia in1757 that for the first time the verb to humiliate was described as an antisocial act, as the violation of a person’s dignity (Miller, 1993).

In this new context, humiliation can no longer be used by masters to create humble underlings, because humiliation is experienced as an undeserved and unjust violation of dignity that must be redressed. All around the world, subordinates who formerly accepted humiliation quietly are now rebelling against their assigned subservient status in the social order. War is the most cruel humiliation, the most undeserved and unjust violence of dignity, which cannot be tolerated. Peace and harmony can no longer defined as underlings simply keeping quiet in the face of this humiliation as it was before. Humankind is in the process of moving from traditional arrangements of ranked honour to a new vision of human dignity connected with SPHERONS’ theory. It is a move from ranked honour in a divided family toward a world to equal dignity in a united family who cherishes its diversity.

As a result, we must come to understand that humiliation in its many forms—such as disrespect, denigration, derision, or dehumanization—becomes a much more powerful force than ever before to breakdown relationships (Lindner, 2006). Based o­n twenty years of global research, humiliation could be aptly understood as a nuclear bomb of emotions [24]. As peace is the highest human dignity, providing his life, so war is the highest humiliation of human dooming him to death [25].

War and associated with it the worst humiliation of person may be excluded in a decent society based o­n the equal dignity of social harmony. Avishai Margalit calls for a decent society that does not humiliate its citizens [26]. Leo Semashko has deeply thought about the ways to shape a decent world and its global peace from social harmony of SPHERONS as the partnership model [3, 84–85 идр.].

However, so far, world-wide, decent relationships are still far from being achieved. What is reigning instead is a form of domination disguised as partnership. Growing influence of corporate interests threaten the emergence of the partnership model. Self-serving individual achievement and cutthroat competition are being promoted, rather than long-term sustainable collaboration. Still too many practices, policies, and institutions induce and intensify humiliation.

It is clear that humankind is moving through dramatic relational changes, as well as facing dire political, economic and environmental challenges to our existence. To develop the vital knowledge we need to address these daunting challenges, our ways of thinking and shaping our world also need to change. This means creating conflict where it is necessary, rather than being divided by unnecessary conflict or being bribed into accepting humiliation. We need to create mutually supportive, humiliation-free global systems that bring people together in equal dignity and help us protect our planet. If we are to survive as a human species, we must develop systems of unity in diversity that encourage everyone’s best contributions of knowledge, creativity, and wisdom toward this goal. The world needs new models of living together that dignify the lives of all people, of our relationships with each other and our relationship with a fragile planet. A similar model is constructed to change the world in this book devoted to global peace and overcoming the main humiliation of human dignity - the war.

Evelin G. Lindner, MD, PhDs (Dr. med. and Dr. psychol.), Transdisciplinary Scholar in Social Sciences and Humanities. Founding President of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies (HumanDHS). Address: World citizen from Norway.

E-mail: e.g.lindner {@} stk.uio.noWeb: www.humiliationstudies.org, www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=74

6.2.8. Indian Commandments of Peace from Harmony. Kanak Mal Dugar

At the end of the colonial era, just after Indian Independence, a divine inspiration guided the founder of Gandhi Vidya Mandir, Shri Kanhaiyalal Dugar to spread the message of Peace and Harmony through Value based Education. After due planning he started Gandhi Vidya Mandir o­n 2^nd October, 1950, o­n the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Subsequently, he donated all his wealth and took Sanyas (asceticism) and was known as Swami Shri Ram Sharan ji Maharaj. The institution started working in the field of education, health, rural development, social welfare and research in the very backward and desolated that desert region of Rajasthan.

In 2002 Gandhi Vidya Mandir (GVM) proceeded a step ahead in the direction of achieving its long cherished goal of inculcating human values in the students when University status was granted to o­ne of its constituent IASE Deemed University. Today it has eleven colleges, six schools, rural development centers, Agro-science centre, Gaushala (Cow Home), Orphanage and Craft Training facilities etcetera o­n its campus of over 1000 acres.

Two most liked slogans which were the path markers in the life of our founder Swami ji were

i.No o­ne is other, No o­ne is another (Koi Aur Nahi, Koi Gair Nahi)

ii.No desires, be utilitized (Kuch Mat Chaho, Kaam Aa Jaao)

They became commandments for educating students in the spirit of peace from harmony at GVM and IASE University. Even today I think this is the royal path of harmony because till the evils like greed, selfishness, desires, laziness (idleness), feeling of inequality and intolerance persist in any equation the conflict remains. When no o­ne is another, we are all the same as the creation of the Nature or the creation of its master (as o­ne believes), thus disharmony dwindles; when there is no desire, conflict can never arise. When the feeling of being consumed and utilized for others comes, Harmony blossoms automatically as the source of global peace.

The spiritual master of our founder Revered Swamiji gave these ideals for GVM:

1.Introspection, that is by critically observing our mistakes through self-generated power of discretion.

2.Emphatically resolving not to repeat our mistakes.

3.Adopt doctrinal experimentation with ourselves but have faith in others, keeping the binding of laws for ourselves but love and forgiveness for others.

4.Regenerate and reorient ourselves by the mastering our desires and senses, serving others, remembering supreme consciousness and quest for truth.

5.Never treat others duty as our right, others benevolence as our virtue, others weakness as our strength.

6.Develop family like o­neness irrespective of the differences and diversity.

7.Render all possible creative service to the nearby society.

8.For physical betterment use self-control in diet and recreation and maximize self-reliance in meeting our own needs.

9.Make o­ne-self beautiful by industrious body, Spartan mind, prudent intelligence, loving heart and egoless personality.

10.Give more importance to goods over coins; persons over goods; discretion over person and Truth over discretion.

11.Abnegate useless thoughts and positively utilize the present for a bright future.

Another important reality is that disharmony has to disappear from the inside of the personality of individuals. o­ne has to be in perfect harmony with themselves and o­nly then we can think of Global Harmony. These golden principles when adopted can start the transformation from inside. Disharmony then will start fading down as the society starts proceeding towards adopting these principles. Then o­nly Global Harmony from ABC to Z can be achieved. The ABC of Harmony lifts these principles and ideals o­n the new spiritual level of human integrity and strengthens the consciousness of inner harmony as the ultimate source of peace.

Kanak Mal Dugar, Chairman, Gandhi Vidya Mandir; Chancellor, IASE deemed University; Honorary President, GHA–India. Address: Sardarshahar, Rajasthan, India.

Web: www.gandhividyamandir.org.in/; www.iaseuniversity.org.in/;

www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=481; E–mail: kanakmaldugar {@} gmail.com

6.2.9. Principle of Restoring Sanity and Establishing Peace in Strangely Disordered World. A.K. Merchant

There is a conviction deep in every human heart that life has meaning beyond the struggle for survival. But what exactly is the purpose of our existence? To understand the purpose of our existence, we need to first understand the true nature of a human being.When we think about the phrase “human nature”; what images come to mind? Is it something positive or negative? Are we simply a collection of instincts, appetites, urges and emotions, or are we something more? Is there anything that distinguishes us from animals?

We share with the animal world many characteristics related to our material existence.However, we also have a spiritual nature, what some would call in India, the atman (soul), and it is this spiritual nature that determines our true purpose. The purpose of life for the individual is to develop spiritual qualities and perfections, and to advance towards Divinity that too, collectively. Such development does not take place through idle worship.Nor can it be achieved in a life dedicated to the pursuit of worldly desires. Fulfilling the purpose of o­ne’s life—which is to know and worship the Divine—requires activity in the arena of the collective life of humanity; it calls for selfless service to society.

The growing interdependence and the intensifying interaction among diverse peoples pose fundamental challenges to old ways of thinking, believing and acting demanding their revolution, like the o­ne that makes in GPS in this book. How we, as individuals and communities, respond to these challenges will, to a large degree, determine whether our communities become nurturing, cohesive and progressive, or inhospitable, divided and unsustainable?

A recent survey of the world conditions appeals for “a complete reconceptualization of the relationships that sustain society.The deepening environmental crisis, driven by a system that condones the pillage of natural resources to satisfy an insatiable thirst for more, suggests how entirely inadequate is the present conception of humanity’s relationship with nature; the deterioration of the home environment, with the accompanying rise in the systematic exploitation of women and children worldwide, makes clear how pervasive are the misbegotten notions that define relations within the family unit; the persistence of despotism, o­n the o­ne hand, and the increasing disregard for authority, o­n the other, reveal how unsatisfactory to a maturing humanity is the current relationship between the individual and the institutions of society; the concentration of material wealth in the hands of a minority of the world’s population gives an indication of how fundamentally ill-conceived are relationships among the many sectors of what is now an emerging global community” [27].

The unfettered cultivation of needs and wants has led to a system fully dependent o­n excessive consumption for a privileged few, while reinforcing exclusion, poverty and inequality, for the majority. Each successive global crisis—be it climate, energy, food, water, disease, financial collapse—has revealed new dimensions of the exploitation and oppression inherent in the current patterns of consumption and production.Stark are the contrasts between the consumption of luxuries and the cost of provision of basic needs: basic education for all would cost US$ 10 billion; yet $82 billion is spent annually o­n cigarettes in the United States alone.The eradication of world hunger would cost $30 billion whilst some $92 billion are spent in the United States for combating obesity [28]; i.e. as reported by the UN Department of Public Information, “the estimated cost of closing the gap between current trends and what is needed to meet the target ranged from $10 billion to $18 billion per year [29]”.By comparison, the world’s military budget, unaffected by recession, has risen to $1.70 trillion in 2012 of which approximately 45% is by the United States [29].

The purpose of the collective life of humankind is “to carry forward and ever-advancing civilization [30]”. Civilization has two essential components, material and spiritual.Both of these have to advance simultaneously if humanity is to achieve prosperity and true happiness.“No matter how far the material world advances, it cannot establish the happiness of mankind… o­nly when material and spiritual civilization are linked and coordinated will happiness be assured [31]” as taught by Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Baha'i religion. Thus, we can see that we have a twofold purpose in our lives: knowing and realizing the Divine, and walking the path of collective service for the advancement of civilization, as we know it. To this end, knowledge, volition and action play a central role in fulfilling both these purposes.Knowledge is the foundation of civilization; the will to act and the deeds we perform moves us forward. The principle of the o­neness of humankind implies, then, an organic change in the very structure of present-day society.

Since scientific and spiritual knowledge is so fundamental to both personal growth and the advancement of civilization, every human being should have access to knowledge and have opportunities to play a contributory role in its generation, diffusion and application for the betterment of society.

The disharmonious and disordered world is a loss of sanity and unity. GPS develops the conscious, scientific sanity, which is required to establish global peace from harmony and transform disharmonious and disordered world into consciously organized and harmonious world order of its new-thinking global actors - SPHERONS. Steps and architecture of this order are disclosed in GPS presented in this book.

“Every truth,” said the German philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer, “passes through three stages before it is recognized.In the first stage it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, and in the third stage it is regarded as self-evident [32]”. These steps GPS will inevitably have to go. But this is a level of testing its sanity.

Bahá’u’lláh, founder of the Bahá’í Faith, proclaimed: “The well-being of humankind, its peace and security are unattainable unless and until its unity is firmly established;” “the earth is but o­ne country, and humankind its citizens.[31]”

A.K. Merchant PhD.

National Trustee, Lotus Temple & Baha’i Community of India; General Secretary, The Temple of Understanding—India [NGO with consultative status at the United Nations]; Chairperson, Sarvodaya International Trust—Delhi Chapter; Member, India International Centre; Visiting Faculty, Centre for Cultural Resources & Training, Government of India.

Address: New Delhi, India, Email:ak9merchant {@} gmail.com

6.2.10. Children and Youth Leadership in Building Global Peace.

Nina Meyerhof

The previous generations, as well as modern, did not know what global peace is. They do not know the global peace science (GPS), which is created o­nly now by the collective efforts of GHA. GPS overcomes the traditional historical ignorance in social harmony, revealing the scientific way of building global peace from harmony as its first source. Therefore, to study, to learn, to develop and apply this knowledge to build global peace will future generations, today's youth (this is the age group 15-30 years to the UN definition) and children.

To solve these problems the organization Children of the Earth (COE) was created, as a not-for-profit, 501 © (3) [United States legal non-profit designation], officially recognized United Nations NGO organization, dedicated to the building of a better future for all generations. To this end, COE offers Youth leadership programs globally, educational workshops, conferences, as well as presentations at national and international forum.COE promotes building networks and coalitions of groups with common purposes to further the concept of creating greater global cooperation, multicultural understanding, spiritual values and ethical living.COE’s goal is for Youth to hear the call, o­ne by o­ne, and individually become socially responsible and active peace builders. 

The 21st century holds the greatest possibilities for an integrated peaceful and prosperous global community. Connected by telecommunications and a growing spirituality, humankind has a chance to actualize an evolutionary state of being. At the same time, the future has never before been more challenged by worldwide terrorism, poverty, rapid climate change, inadequate education and health care and geopolitical unrest. The kind of world that the next generation will experience will depend upon the collective vision and intention of world leaders. As long as the global culture is grounded in fear, greed and ignorance in social harmony, we will continue to use our human and financial resources for war and destruction. As we shift towards love, compassion and education o­n the base of GPS knowledge, we will deploy resources for the common good, lifting up all people to a life of hope and security.

Today, science and spirituality are coming to the same conclusion that all people are intrinsically similar; the human genome project has proven that we are genetically 99.9 % alike with o­nly 1 tenth of o­ne percent that makes us different. (The same argues and psychological human genome, which was opened in the ABC of Harmony. [3, 44-45].) Until we realize that I am you and you are me, o­nly then will right action and thought be supported by the universal laws of society unfolded in GPS. Until we can concentrate o­n what makes us the same instead of what makes us different, o­nly then can we deal with the challenges ahead. It is imperative that we spend our time and resources o­n young people, supporting leadership and educational experiences, first of all in GPS, that promote respectful communities, common ethics, sustainable practices, global peace, and economic opportunities.

 Children of the Earth is an organization whose purpose is to create a network of young leaders committed to the promotion of peace and opportunity. Under the visionary leadership of Dr. Nina Meyerhof, COE has been bringing youth together for over 25 years, providing community and networking opportunities to young leaders who are committed to positive global change. By developing a culture of co-operation, collaboration, mediation, relationship-building and understanding of our common humanity, these young people go back to their local communities and influence others through sharing their vision of how we can be together in global peace from social harmony.

The mission of the COE is to support Humanity in creating a future that embodies the universal values of peace, tolerance, dignity, freedom, equality, and solidarity for all life.COE’s handbook: PIONEERING SPIRITUAL ACTIVISM [33] offers structured learning opportunities to young people that inspire, motivate and unite them to translate these universal values into global action and culturally appropriate projects in their own communities.

As o­ne recognizes the youth are the world’s engines of change. COE has pioneered spiritual activism through educational training models she created: Reflect, Connect, Act, which have been delivered to youth in over 60 countries and transformed communities worldwide. This experience and the COE possibilities greatly enhanced with the advent of social harmony science presented in the ABC of harmony [3], and with the creation o­n its base GPS, presented in this book. In this direction, a new culture of traditional spiritual values develops.

As SPIRITUAL PEACEMAKERS, youth from all corners of the world are recognizing and remembering that there is hope to live as a human family. Youth are tapping into their inner life and reuniting with their true spiritual nature and this reflection leads to a sincere ethical life.

COE seeks support to propel this movement forward through mutual partnership to raise consciousness and social action among our world’s youth population. The intent of raising awareness that youth throughout this world are realizing and are being called forth to reveal that there is a global consciousness attempting to arise in the hearts and minds of humanity. This consciousness is what is being called the “spiritual revolution” or the evolution of humankind into full awareness.

It is quite evident that even the adults of this new paradigm thinking are still the greatest stakeholders in the present reality although continuing to believe in the necessity of change. Change can occur but o­nly through educational means.New models of any relevant content or lasting ability can o­nly emerge and alter the face of our systems’ effectiveness if a person is willing to alter their entire life. Adults must recognize that they are really o­nly the gatekeepers to this emerging consciousness revolution in GPS and not the recipients.In spite of their great interest in this GPS revolution, they must be informed to not believe that they will ever know or will ever experience the outcomes of this evolving consciousness revolution.

COE is a catalytic learning organization and empowers young people all over the world to become spiritually conscious leaders by employing these methodologies of inner reflection (meditation) to find o­ne’s authentic inner voice and to take inspired altruistic actions for a better planet.  We call it "Reflect, Connect, Act: Spiritual Activism."

Youth leadership here is defined as taking initiative based o­n an inner understanding of o­ne’s personal purpose after tapping into the consciousness field for activating peace-building within their own lives, the lives of others and in the world.

 The o­neness Movement seeks the to transform the world through a shift youth consciousness worldwide by daily o­neness mindfulness meditation, uniting in arevolutionary interactive heart-based site called the Global Heart to exchange and share innovation and inspiration, receive mentorship, and learn about inner transformation to activate the altruistic need to change behaviors and create acts of kindness and community projects of positive action.  Children of the Earth commits to building this platform for youth leaders of the world to organize themselves into a relevant spiritual peacemakers movement. One project in design, is the youth of COE will establish an interactive Global Heart for o­neness Movement & Campaign, a global Inner Revolution for Social Evolution.  COE, joined by others around the world, will launch the effort of uniting 180 million youth worldwide. The goal is to foster a catalytic tipping point to transform our world into a more peaceful and sustainable planet through inner reflection, social transformation and new technologies from harmony.

If we are to alter the course of history that is doomed within the next 25 years and build a New Civilization of Humankind then we must find our commonalties, unite in consciousness and then design alternatives to the structures we have thus created. This is the role of youth. They can be brazen enough to assess internally the potential answers for our survival. 

Dr. Nina Meyerhof,

COE President, GHA Vice-President. Address: South Burlington, Vermont, USA

Web: www.coeworld.org E-mail: nina {@} coeworld.org

6.2.11. Social Responsibility for Global Peace.

Matjaz Mulej, Anita Chrast, Leo Semashko

The responsibility for global peace can carry those social groups who are able to provide it in its entirety. Above it has been found that such groups are SPHERONS. But they can be responsible o­nly if this responsibility is conscious for them that will come if they move from an intuitive and spontaneous state to conscious o­ne. This is possible at their education in GPS.

It is important to emphasize the asymmetry of responsibility for war and peace. Any group or nation starting a war is responsible for the war and for breach of peace. But no such group or nation, i.e. none o­ne PARTON cannot be responsible for global peace. o­nly SPHERONS, uniting and including all PARTONS, may be responsible for global peace.

As the GPS and its SPHERONS remain unknown, so far social responsibility for global peace remains terra incognita for all organizations, including international together with the UN, in the Charter of which we find not responsibility for "global" peace, which is often substituted for the concept of local peace anywhere in the world. Therefore, in the industrial militaristic civilization virtually no concept, understanding and science of global peace, its actors and because there is no scientific concept of responsibility for it. For any war as a violation of global peace, all of humanity is responsible, all of its SPHERONS, which can and should prevent any attempt to global peace of any PARTON if SPHERONS are aware of this and have the necessary practical institutions for this purpose. Study o­n global peace and responsibility for it is connected with the further study of SPHERONS in GPS as actors of both.

Matjaz Mulej, Dr. Dr., Prof. Emeritus, University of Maribor;

International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences (Vienna, Austria), President; Institute of Social Responsibility, President.

Address: EPF, P.O.Box 142, Razlagova 14, SI-2001 Maribor, Slovenia,

E-mail: mulej {@} uni-mb.si Web: www.irdo.si,www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=64

Anita Hrast, Professor of Economics at the Institute of Social Responsibility.

Address: Maribor, Slovenia. E-mail: anita.hrast {@} siol.net Web: www.irdo.si

Dr. Leo Semashko, Initiator and Editor in Chief of the book "Global Peace Science"

6.2.12. Principle of Happiness of Global Peace. Marianna Poghosyan

The principle of happiness of global peace in GPS is the most obvious but at the same time the most generalizing principle, as the peace state is real happiness and war is the worst of all human miseries as the war brings death and deprives a person of his/her main inalienable right - the right to life. Peace, as opposed to war, provides it. It was understood thousands of years ago and expressed by almost all thinkers.

Harmonious Civilization Universal Declaration, created members of the Global Harmony Association (GHA) and supported by like-minded people from other countries [34, p. 21-30], o­nce again proves the need for creation, awareness and ratification of the universal concept of "global peace from harmony", based o­n the scientific theory of global social harmony, first presented in the ABC of harmony [3].

The inevitability of knowledge and use of harmony is now widely spoken by the different scientists. For example, Stanislav Grof, author of the book "Beyond the Brain" [35] believes that the solution of contemporary problems requires a new science called "Science about Systems of Harmony" based o­n Fibonacci numbers and the Golden Section, bringing together the ends of the parts into a beautiful set of perfect harmony. He believes that this will restore and deepen the relationship between science and art as the two complementary methods of detection and reflection of objective harmony of the universe. But this is the technical science, it is powerless before social harmony and scientific understanding of global peace, which grows o­nly from the harmony of social parts not of the Fibonacci numbers, and so o­n.

Based o­n this social need, the necessity to create GPS from harmony is unique and by far the most urgent responsibility of mankind. It makes the most important agenda of the progressive development peace from harmony in pernicious destructive century of industrial civilization. GPS should be universal for all people tool and beacon in the chaos and immorality of our wars against the principal vector of life and happiness, against ourselves. After all, in the end, the formula of the existence of all living things in peace from harmony is principle of authentic Harmony.

Marianna Poghosyan,

Lawyer, Master of Advanced European and International Studies; Political Affairs Officer in the European and International organizations; National Ballet Artist of Armenia; author of the book "Happiness against GDP" (2013).

Address: Yerevan, Armenia; E-mail: poghosyan.marianna {@} yahoo.com

6.2.13. Principle of Women’s Priority in Global Peace.

Ayo Ayoola-Amale, Vera Popovich

GPS reveals the most powerful natural forces of peace in society. The first such force are SPHERONS that shown in the first two chapters of the book. They include the most powerful peacemaking force, which have women. It expresses the principle of women’s priority in management of peaceful society based o­n the appropriate law of SPHERONS in GPS. Female half of SPHERONS, by nature, is intended to bear and raise children, of which grow all people as the main social resource. Women can do so in peace and for peace and not for war as murder of their children. Therefore, women are a major actor of global peace and how the child's mother, his main teacher, and as the inspirer and educator in harmony for the male half of SPHERONS. The woman is the main source of harmony within them. In place of militarization she stands harmonization.

It was long been noted and expressed in world literature and art and now in science. The famous Japanese poet Raityo Hiratsuka said, “Woman was originally the sun!”. Her harmony is sung in countless masterpieces of poetry, music, painting and sculpture of all time. The woman is mother of mankind. Unfortunately, in the past history, women bear and raise children mostly for the wars and violence in which they were killed millions. The woman as the sun, heat and light of harmonious enlightenment of children is a key actor of global peace from harmony. But patriarchal militarist societies with male power, women and children are deprived, oppressed, and unequal with limited rights.

Therefore, if humanity is to get rid itself from male militarism, its power and democracy have changed the face for women and ensure that women have priority in the democratic management of society. Global peace demands that women’s priority in social management was constitutional, that at least 50% of the seats in all parliaments and organs of power were reserved for women, plus a children's suffrage, executed by parents, especially mothers. It is o­nly way humanity to get rid of militarism, war and violence. Children's priority in society and priority of women in the social management are the necessary priorities for global peace. GPS is the first scientific instrument of women in the struggle for global peace, for children’s priority and for their priority in social governance. These priorities provide an objective global peace and raise the rights and status of women in society and their role in the adequate place. This will be a new, harmonious and peaceful civilization with female profile. But it requires long and active peacemaking women’s efforts, the sprouts of which grow stronger over a century.

Women’s work for peace is recognized now more than ever before. Women in developing countries coming out of violent conflicts are calling for more recognition of the vital role of women in bringing harmony, peace and stability to their respective communities and countries. Women who are grounded in humanity, women in their non-violent struggle for peace, the safety of lives and women’s rights must be celebrated for their significant contribution to peace and security.

In Africa, women’s leadership is not the norm but the exception, in spite of the fact there is a tradition of women’s involvement in the community. Culture is being used to keep women from leadership roles. In conflict situations, law is defined by the rule of the gun. This is so, because the perception is that war is necessary to get power. War is believed to be a battle for power.Women can get peace processes going and need to be supported. Here are a few examples, starting with Africa.

Leymah Gbowee is Liberian activist, peacemaker, born in 1972. She is a woman for peace, a trauma counselor and executive director of a pan-African organization, the Women in Peace and Security Network, working to promote women’s role in peace building and conflict prevention. In 2003, she organised a large women’s peace movement that made an important contribution to bringing an end to her country’s 14-year civil war. She along with her collaborator Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, helped usher in a period of peace and enabled a free election in 2005 that Sirleaf won. This made Liberia the first African nation to have a female president. She, along with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Tawakkul Karman, were awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work."

She recalled how she finally realized that the Liberian child soldiers were also victims of conflict like the women. She said “They were recruited at 8, 9 or 10 years old, given drugs and guns. A lot of them were arrested at their place of recruitment; working with them I could see they were victims like myself. The perpetrators are the o­nes who give the guns and I realized then that even if it was going to kill me, I would say something; I would say something to Charles Taylor” – the civil war leader. “I would say something to Charles Taylor about the horrible future he has created for Liberia”.

Former Minister of Justice of Kenya, Martha Karua, who led the peace negotiations in the country, said we are all inter-connected. If we, women, are working to achieve peace then we must stand out and talk about peace. There are millions of people living in poverty and most of the conflicts around the world are about a scramble for resources. There can’t be durable peace without women. When we focus o­n peace, we are giving true meaning to democracy.

Asha Abdallah, a Somali politician, a Muslim member of parliament, criticized the Somali government for its lack of democracy and openness. She o­nce said that "Somalia is the most neglected humanitarian crisis in the world, a community of mother’s grieving over their children." Because of the high mortality rate of Somali men in wars, 65% of the Somali population are women, followed by Parliament secured o­nly 12% of the seats. However, as stated Asha Abdallah, "the warlords do not allow 12% of women in parliament, limiting their number, o­nly 8%."

Women have the capacity to rebuild from the grassroots up re-uniting the people in the process. In Djibouti 100 women came up with a formula for the women to be separate from the clans by negotiating between the warlords and the clans.” They reformed the Transitional Federal Government. Women peace builders strive to bring peace and equality to the world. In conflict women suffer more; they suffer more violence to their body and their person, therefore affirmative action for women is important.

We have prominent women leaders in peace building and human rights activists from all over the world who speak o­n the necessity of international support for the role of women’s leadership in peace building, negotiations, promoting reconciliation between communities, tribal leaders and war lords especially in ethnic conflict.

Another example. Wazhma Frogh, an activist in the Afghan women’s network who has passed through a lot of problems taking part in the Afghanistan peace process. Frogh reported at the Grand Assembly or the Peace Jurga, that there were o­nly 300 women out of 2300 citizens from the entire country. She was the o­nly woman among tribal leaders and MPs. She was in committee 13. She recalled “On the first day I walked into the room and no o­ne said ‘hi’ to me. So for the first day I listened. o­n the second day I said ‘hi’ and again no o­ne responded. As the day progressed it seemed that the process was stuck o­n negotiating a treaty.” She soon came to realized that: “the tribal leaders did not understand the difference between a treaty and an agreement. So I said: ‘can I help you?’ I stood up and explained the difference between a treaty and an agreement. o­n the third day they selected me as head of the programme.”

The tribal leaders thought that all they needed was to be stronger, to have more guns, more soldiers and more equipment. Frogh asked them a question: “What do you want at the end of 2014? Two thousand men are able to shoot or an efficient protection where goods and people are able to move around safely?” Consequently, Committee 13 then said, “We shall lobby for you to become our representative at the Security Council.” In Afghanistan at the provincial council level, we find all men initially but twenty-five women are involved now. Women need the support of their communities. They make a huge difference through active contribution to peace and human rights activism. Their decisions at the grassroots improve lives and are therefore very beneficial to the community.

According to Wazhma Frogh peace in Afghanistan can o­nly be possible through campaigning at the grassroots, the Afghanistan people have to own it. NATO’s policy should not interfere in “cultural” matters. The failure to acknowledge the rights of women is detrimental to building a stable society in Afghanistan. She said “We have to take reconciliation back to people’s homes.” Frogh rightly said, “NATO don’t count how many women are able to travel safely to school or work,” they arm local militias, and “the biggest instruction NATO soldiers get is – don’t speak to Afghan women, because the Afghan men will kill you. If they see a woman getting killed or attacked by Afghan men they don’t get involved because that violence is ‘local, cultural’.” To NATO it is a success indicator when there is reduction in suicide attacks. She believes that “we need to lobby for the empowerment of women in the peace process. It should be women that lead the peace process. NATO Security Council really has to reform itself into a people’s organization necessary for peace.”

Women need to be in leadership roles in peace negotiations and women empowerment should be at the core of human rights issues. They are very vital in preserving the generations. There is the need for us to bring a lot of African women to the negotiating table. It is very important to give recognition to women were peace builders, who did great things for their communities, in their respective field.These women are worthy of being emulated by others.It was by no means a smooth journey for women to gain recognition for their great peace work.

Bertha von Suttner, author and a woman for peace, was the first female Peace Laureate in 1905. In 1931, Sixteen years after, Jane Addams, won the Peace prize, then another fifteen years, in 1946, Emily Greene Balch, academic, writer, won in recognition for her work with the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF); she shared it with John Mott.

It took 46 years (1976) before Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan (née Maguire) both community activists were recognised for their work in the Northern Ireland peace movement.

The Nobel Women’s Initiative was founded by Williams and Corrigan in 2006, along with other Laureates Wangari Maathai, Shirin Ebadi, Rigoberta Menchu Tum, and Jody Williams. These six women brought together their unique experiences as a team to help strengthen peace building work done, and support of women’s rights around the world.

There are many other famous women leaders in peace-building and human rights. These activists from around the world talking about the necessity of international support for women's leadership in peace-building, in the negotiations, in promoting the reconciliation of communities and tribal leaders in ethnic conflicts. These examples illustrate the vital importance of the women’s priority principle in global peace, which is formulated in GPS.

Ayo Ayoola-Amale,

Lawyer, Mediator, Peace-builder and Poet. President, Global Harmony Association in Africa: GHA-Africa. GHA Vice-president. President, Women International League for Peace and Freedom, Ghana (WILPF). Address: Accra, Ghana. Email: aayoamale {@} gmail.com

Web: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=524

Vera Popovich,

Librarian-bibliographer, GHA member. Address: St. Petersburg, Russia,

Email:vera-papovich {@} mail.ru

6.2.14. Global Peace and its Science as the first Common Good of the XXI Century. Francois Houtart, Leo Semashko

The struggle for Common Goods is related with the history of capitalism. In England, the “enclosure” of the common lands has been o­ne of the main origins of the capitalist system. To reduce the “commons” and to transform them in private property was the beginning of a process of accumulation. Common lands were considered as wasted lands. Land reforms like the o­nes of China and Vietnam have restored this notion, with the socialization of land.

Today, neo-liberalism all over the world has reduced the social conquests of more than a century, among them the organization of public services, social security and popular education, creating new forms of poverty. Struggles to restrain such a trend and to reorganize areas of solidarity, have been developed among social movements: labour, peasants, women, indigenous peoples. In Latin America post-neoliberal governments have reestablished or increased programmes against poverty, better access to health and education, social insurances, development of formal labour, public investments.

In the present situation of crisis, the concept of Common Good has known a new life. It is used by the struggles to restore public services. It became part of the discourse of neo-keynesians rightly afraid of the consequences of the economic turmoil. Post-neoliberal Governments in Latin America use the word to justify their political practices. International organizations like UNCTAD speak about “global common good”. Surely there is nothing wrong in emphasizing this concept, and in a short time it may be useful to alleviate the fate of millions of people. However it should not serve as an argument to reproduce the existing economic system, with some improvements.

This is why the notion of Common Good of Humanity is proposed as a new paradigm (fundamental orientation) of the collective life of Humanity o­n the planet. It means the possibility of creating, reproducing and bettering life o­n earth. This is proposed not in an idealistic platonic view, neither in the tradition of utopian socialism, but in response to a system destructing the earth and having adopted a sacrificial economy able to eliminate entire social groups in name of progress. It is a radical critic of the kind of modernity transmitted by the logic of the market and not completely abandoned by the socialist experiences.

Concretely, it means to transform the four “fundamentals” (spheres) of any society: relations with nature; production of the material base of all life, physical, cultural, spiritual; collective social and political organization and culture for global peace as Common Good of Humanity.