Global Harmony Day
June 21*
by Leo Semashko together with 22 coauthors from different parts of the world

Ten definitions. Global Harmony Day is:

- The Search for the coordinated, dialogic and weighed unity of diversity
- The Statement of a principle "want peace - create harmony" instead of the principle: “want peace
- prepare for war"
- An Alternative to the culture and celebration of war in an Industrial Age
- The First Day of a new culture and calendar of harmonious peace in an Information Age
- The Key for social harmony of the East and West, North and South
- The Beginning of harmony between the different cultures, religions, ethnicities and civilizations, eliminating their wars, confrontations and clashes but maintaining their distinction and achievements
- The Reorientation of spheres of economy, policy, science and education from a priority of war on to priority of harmonious peace
- The Promise of global Belief, Hope and Love for children, women, men and future generations
- A Turn of social science from apologia of confrontation to discovery and exploration of the new actors (classes, groups etc.) that will ensure social harmony
- A Resolution of the increasing global problems of mankind: ecological, energy, food,
demographic and others through establishment of harmonious peace, which provides association of civilizations and concentration of the world resources for resolving the global problems instead of preparation for war.

* It is day of an equinox but other date for Global Harmony Day is possible

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To Youth and Future Generations:

PREAMBLE

We, twenty two coauthors, - scientists, artists and culture activists from twelve countries of four continents of the world, having the love for children and grandchildren, and concerned for the destiny of all children of our planet, united by the idea of harmony as a key value of a new culture of peace (our common understanding of a role of harmony is expressed above in 10 definitions of Global Harmony Day), ADDRESS to the youth of the world, first of all to the young parents and also future parents with the following OFFER of a new Calendar of harmonious PeaceCulture, which is born together with the birth of a new harmonious information society. We undertake the COMMITMENT to further work for the development and practical application of this calendar for the sake of your future. The new calendar requires a new philosophy, worldview or theory. But we do not have a common understanding of social harmony and the ways/means of its achievement. Almost all of us adhere to the different theoretical visions, which are submitted below in the brief abstracts. We understand that without dialogue both between us and with younger generations, without your spiritual participation, the new calendar of peace culture and its philosophical/theoretical substantiation will not be possible. These cultural factors, decisions affecting the peace in your daily life, require your thinking, choice, co-authorship and action. Therefore we APPEAL to you to actively promote them, to develop, to update and to supplement them with your ideas, offers and practical actions. You can express them o­n our site "A New Culture of Peace from Harmony and Children’s Priority" (www.peacefromharmony.org (http://www.peacefromharmony.org/)) o­n the dialogic page (please, see below). We also invite other scientists, artists and culture activists from all countries of the world to join our COMMITMENT/APPEAL, which can become an ideological shift from the tradition of confrontation and clash to the tradition of harmony both in the global information world and in the everyday life of the individual person.

HARMONY CALENDAR

Each society, of every civilization, marks specific calendar days o­n which to celebrate the most important events in its history. Calendars provide daily reminders of cultural values and define the daily behavior of the human being. A new peace culture and calendar, for which the rationale is: if you want peace, search for harmony, is to replace the numerous calendars of the culture of war prevalent during the last and modern civilization, in which the rationale was: if you want peace, prepare for war (Si vis pacem, para bellum). The new peace culture and calendar correspond to the new information age, which first sprouted during the middle of the last century. The new culture of harmonious peace is born of the old culture, slowly and painfully, synthesizing its achievements from the different civilizations, both Western and Eastern. The idea and dream of harmony developed as in the West: from Homer and Plato up to Leibnitz and to our time and in the East at the various schools of Buddhism and Confucianism. Therefore a value of harmony has a universal foundation o­n which to develop a new global society, born in the information age. If in earlier times, harmony remained an unattainable dream, the information society opens real opportunities for its embodiment just as the industrial society has embodied dreams of the automobile, airplane, radio, TV and others. Harmony is the o­nly alternative to the threat and highest risk of nuclear self-destruction o­n the brink of which the Industrial Society has placed our world. Therefore the Information Society can be o­nly harmonious or its will not be at all.

Please see the entire text on
http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=131