Open letter to President
Trump
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Global Harmony
Association (GHA)
Citizens of the Earth!
Unite in harmony for
love, peace, freedom, justice, fraternity and happiness!
GHA since February 15,
2005 is an international NGO uniting more than 600 members in 65 countries and
more than one million participants from the GHA collective members in 80
countries.
Board: 36 GHA members
from 14 countries
GHA headquarters: Office A 170, New
Manglapuri, New Delhi 110045, India; Ph. 1244266169. Email: ghatrust@gmail.com
GHA Mission is:
To
bring global peace from harmony and to pave a conscious way for harmonious
civilization on scientifically based ‘ABC of Harmony’ and through ‘Global
Peace Science’
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February 1, 2017
Professor Rudolf J.
Siebert,
Department of
Comparative Religion,
Western Michigan
University, Michigan, USA
http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=51
To: Mr. Donald Trump, President of the United States,
To: Mr. Donald Trump, President of the United States,
Subject: Your Global Peace Paradigm for the US geopolitics, its Christian meaning, and convergence with President Putin’s Global Peace Paradigm of Russia.
Dear President Trump:
I enjoyed very much that you became a peacemaker, when you in your campaign speech on foreign policy of April 27, 2016, promised to end President Obama’s aggressive geopolitics, and to make our goal - peace and prosperity, not war and destruction, and to make America great again through global peace, and not through war. Here you have formulated the Global Peace Paradigm for the United States, in which I see a deep religious, and even Christian meaning. You have formulated this Paradigm at a time, when the Dooms Clock in New York has once more moved several degrees toward Midnight.
I am a scholar, who has devoted his life to the comparative study of religions, particularly their ability to promote harmony and peace, as formulated and expressed especially in the Sermon on the Mount, including the Golden Rule. The latter is recognized by almost all living world religions. It has been translated into the widely accepted secular ethics of the categorical imperative and of the a priori unlimited communication community. Your Global Peace Paradigm is built on this Golden Rule. Thus, it carries in itself the religious and Christian meaning of love and nonviolence, inspiring all faithful and reasonable people. You and President Putin have both confessed publicly, that you are not only modern enlightened people, but also believers, and even Christians, if also in different Christian paradigms.
I have founded a Center for Humanistic Future Studies at Western Michigan University, with a strong peace component, out of which developed an international course on The Future of Religion at the IUC in Dubrovnik, Croatia, which has lasted now for over 40 years, and an international sister course about Religion in Civil Society in Yalta, Crimea, which is supported by American as well as by the Crimean Universities, and which has now lasted for 14 years. Scholars from all over the world have met in both courses every year in order to work for peace. Unfortunately, we were unable to meet in the past year in Yalta, because of President Obama’s United States Executive Order 13685, and other sanctions, which are harmful not only for Russia, but also for America, and for the development of mutual scientific and cultural cooperation.We are looking very much foreward to your cancellation of these sanctions, which will allow us to resume again our international course in Yalta, in the service of peace.For more than 40 years, I have travelled between the American and the Slavic Worlds, in order to promote friendship and peaceful cooperation between them. Please, see my biography: http://www.rudolfjsiebert.org/.
In our Center
for Humanistic Future Studies, and its branches in Dubrovnik and Yalta, we
have created a critical theory of religion in the past 50 years, which
asserts that there can not be any peace among nations without peace among
religions; no peace among religions without discourse among them; and no
dialogue among the religions without foundation research in them (Hans Küng).
Our dialectical religiology understands itself as practical discourse: as
future-oriented remembrance of human suffering, particularly through war, with
the practical intent, to diminish it through helping to reconcile the
dissonance between the sacred and the profane dimension, and in the religious
and secular spheres, and thus to resolve some of the consequent, most painful
culture wars, at home and abroad. The critical theory of religion aims, with
the help of the great world religions and world philosophies,
particularly Kant, Hegel, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Einstein, King, Kalam, and many
Nobel Peace Laureates, at the post-modern alternative of Future III - a
free and peaceful society, characterized by the reconciliation of the religious
and the secular, as well as of personal autonomy and universal solidarity,
instead of Future I - a totally administered society, or Future II - and
entirely militaristic society. Secular people know, that there is something
missing in modern civil society. Religious people have to find new translators
for their message of redemption, and liberation, and peace. Please, see our
books, in which our critical theory of religion has been developed, on my
website: http://www.rudolfjsiebert.org/.
More than 11 years ago,
I became a member of the international peacemaking organization Global
Harmony Association (GHA: http://peacefromharmony.org). It brings together
thousands of individual and collective members from over 60 countries, and has
a prominent place in the global civil society. The GHA has published 8 books,
and has created more than 50 projects of global peace for 12 years (http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=472).
The GHA has created a Global Peace Science (GPS) with the help
of 174 co-authors, including the President of India, Abdul Kalam, three Nobel
Peace Prize Laureates, and dozens of distinguished scientists and peacemakers
from 34 countries, including 59 of them, coming from the US (http://peacefromharmony.org/docs/global-peace-science-2016.pdf).
A book about this Global Peace Science is attached.
As GHA nominated Ambassador
of Peace and Disarmament, on the basis of the Sermon on the
Mount, including the Golden Rule, I would like
to submit the following proposals and invitations to you, in the name of
all of us:
1. In your speech on
April 27, 2016, you promised to seek a new vision, new minds, voices,
ideas and approaches to peace. Could you make practical use of these
resources by inviting GHA to cooperate?
2. For the purpose of convergence of the peace positions of the Presidents of the two nuclear superpowers, GHA invites you and President Putin to take part in the republication of the book on the Global Peace Science, including articles on your own vision of a global peace paradigm and its geopolitics, in the historical perspective of the 21st century, which you can today offer to your nations, and the entire world. This will immortalize your names as the founders of peace science together with the names of Kant, Hegel, Tolstoy, Gandhi, King, Kalam, and several Nobel Peace Laureates, and will open the common ground for peace negotiations between the American and the Slavic Worlds. Here the Global Peace Paradigm contained in our critical theory of religion can be particularly helpful.
2. For the purpose of convergence of the peace positions of the Presidents of the two nuclear superpowers, GHA invites you and President Putin to take part in the republication of the book on the Global Peace Science, including articles on your own vision of a global peace paradigm and its geopolitics, in the historical perspective of the 21st century, which you can today offer to your nations, and the entire world. This will immortalize your names as the founders of peace science together with the names of Kant, Hegel, Tolstoy, Gandhi, King, Kalam, and several Nobel Peace Laureates, and will open the common ground for peace negotiations between the American and the Slavic Worlds. Here the Global Peace Paradigm contained in our critical theory of religion can be particularly helpful.
3. A logical extension of
the Global
Peace Science would be a joint establishment of a
small, but nevertheless effective International Institute/Academy of Global
Peace in the United States and in Russia, in order to find
collective answers to increasing challenges,
and for the sake of peace of all humanity. only you and President Putin
together can constitute this science through its support, use and participation
in its development. only you and President Putin are able to give practical
lifeto the Global Peace Science in
the world politics and culture. Hardly anything else can strengthen and lift up
your and President Putin’s world prestige, as well as the good reputation of
yourcountries respectively. This Global Peace Institute would be an
intellectual as well as spiritual bridge between the two countries, which will
show to all the world that you can build not only walls, but also bridges.
Pope Francis I has defined being Christian as being able to build bridges: to
break through the many ingroup - outgroup barriers.
4. You, together with
President Putin, could offer the Global Peace Science, developed
with your participation, to the educational systems of the American and the
Slavic worlds, in order to increase the level of peaceful consciousness in
their populations. Your presidential narratives in the Global Peace
Science would be able, to pull the consciousness of the world media
away from militarism, fakes and military terminology in all areas (Putin),
and from defining politics as the identification of the enemy (Carl
Schmitt, Hitler’s jurist and political theologian), and toward defining it as
the art to make friends, and toward a way of peaceful thinking, in order to
provide a common goal - peace and prosperity, not war and
destruction (Trump).
5. A joint development of the Global Peace Science could be the best convergence of President Putin’s and President Trump's global peace paradigms, and their common sense (Trump) in nuclear disarmament up to nuclear zero as soon as possible. It will allow both of you together to make this century the most peaceful and prosperous the world has ever known (Trump), and spread the peace ideal of humanity (Putin).
6. The joint Global Peace Science could become a common philosophical and scientific foundation for the creation of Peace Departments in the Governments (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Department of State) of the two world powers, about which the best minds of Russia and America have dreamed and thought. Global Peace Science, global peace education, and governmental Peace Departments as the soft-power resources (Putin) could fulfill the hope of Mahatma Gandhi and of Martin Luther King Jr.: We must shift the arms race into a peace race.
You and President Putin are pragmatists in the best sense of the word, and both of you are the peacemakers, who can make use of the proposed soft-power resources, in your quest to find a new vision, new minds, ideas and approaches (Trump) for your common peace geopolitics.
Certainly, the GHA, and
the majority of peace organizations in the USA, and in the world, are happy to
support your historically important paradigm of global peace, which you have
presented on April 27, 2016 in your election campaign speech. It was presented
in comparison with President Putin’s peace paradigm in our published
article Putin-Trump: Two Paradigms of Global Peace: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=735 (in
attachment).
Our deep concern is to
ensure, that your peace program is not only a pre-election promise, that is
easily forgotten, but that it will find its development and validation in
a radical change of the US relations with Russia, which recently have reached a
very dangerous point in the nuclear standoff. We would like to believe and to
hope, that your peaceful program will be implemented as promised: We
shall seek common ground, based on shared interests. Theory must turn
over into praxis, without neglecting theory!
We are convinced that
the Global Peace Science and its philosophy will be the best
scientific and spiritual basis for shared interests and
fora whole complex of peacemaking cooperation between the
American World and the Slavic World, Eurasia, concerning, e.g. terrorism, or
environmental issues, or epidemics, etc., but mainly and
particularly nuclear disarmament/zero, and a common Summit, to
address this global and most dangerous challenge for all nations,
and not just for the USA and Russia. Please, see our
project: Russia and the USA Peaceful Cooperation
Instead of the Insanity of Nuclear War: "RUSAP" by
42 peacemakers, including three Nobel Peace Laureates from 21 countries: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=710 (in
attachment).
Our proposals include
not only the creation of a Peace Department in the USA and in
the Russian Federation, but also the development of an Earth
Constitution, as a renewed international law, ensuring global peace.
Both projects are formulated in a Pragmatics page at the end
of our article Trump: Peacemaking Revolution of the
USA against Aggressive Geopolitics by
20 coauthors from 11 countries: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=685 (in
attachment).
We very much hope for
your attention to the peace proposals contained in the Global Peace
Science, which were carried on for decades in theory, but were ignored in
praxis by the past Administrations, neglecting peace problems. These proposals
are extremely important for the development, and successful realization of your
global peace paradigm. With your Administration, the time has come to
move from peace talk to peace action.
Thank you for your
consideration.
I am, with my best
wishes, for you and your administration
Yours,
Rudolf J. Siebert
Professor of Religion
and Society
Department of
Comparative Religion
Western Michigan
University,
Kalamazoo, Michigan.-------------------------------------------------
Dear friend Rudolf,
The GHA members and all our friends - the true peacemakers - admire with your great, wise letter of Golden Rule peacefulness to President Trump! (In attachment). This is your highest peacemaking achievement as "WORLD HARMONY CREATOR" GHA! This is historic letter, because it sounds by strong reasonable voice of reconciliation among the huge militaristic pay-chorus of NATO’s yells and the like.
This is historic letter, because it supports and promotes the global peace paradigm of President Trump with his great, unprecedented for the militarist America goal: "Our goal is peace and prosperity, not war and destruction!" America has never in its history did not set such a goal! This is historic letter because it was sent on February 1, when the President approved the new Secretary of State to fulfill this great American purpose and put an end to the aggressive geopolitics of the previous administration.
This is historic letter, because it shows an effective way out of the total and dangerous militarization of world politics, as Mikhail Gorbachev wrote recently. But he cannot name this way, and you together with the GHA called it: it is a joint development of Global Peace Science in its joint Institution in Russia and the United States with the accession of other countries in the future. This Institute will be the spiritual and scientific antithesis to militaristic NATO bloc, which "is obsolete" (Trump), and which no one is opposed to its nuclear aggression on Russia's borders. This is historic letter, because it shows the new ways of Christian Golden Rule, the peaceful potential of which from harmony is effective and immortal until now.
You are not only the great religious philosopher and scientific theorist, but a great political practitioner who is not afraid to raise the Christian peace voice in an angry and bribed crowd of militarists and hawks on entire world! You have shown to the world leaders the religious and scientific way, which alone can lead to nuclear disarmament and to zero. NATO and similar warlords will never show it. God bless you on your wisdom and courage to the quickest nuclear disarmament/zero. We highly appreciate you and kneeled before you. Your ideas coincide with the ideas of the Dalai Lama, who wrote that "Trump and Putin union can create WORLD PEACE” http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/757635/Donald-Trump-Putin-WORLD-PEACE-Dalai-Lama-World-relations-US-Russia
I was happy to send your letter to Russian President Putin in the Kremlin, because it is directed not only to the American President, but to him also.
I was happy to publish your letter in the networks and in our article: "Putin - Trump: Two Global Peace Paradigms”: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=735 And on your personal page: http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=51
I call to all true peacemakers to publish this letter on your sites and in your networks. Today it is the most effective, the Christian and scientific instrument of global peace. The true peacemakers, whom want peace not in words but in deeds, in politics, cannot pass indifferently past its. And if they are indifferent, they are the fake peacemakers from zombie faked mainstream media of militarism, preparing the world for the nuclear disaster. only spirituality of Rudolf and similar true and brave peacemakers, together with adequate world leaders, are able to resist militarism and prevent a nuclear catastrophe.
With love for peace from harmony of Golden Rule through science,
Cordially,
Leo
Dr. Leo Semashko,
GHA Honorary President
http://peacefromharmony.org
