Global Union of Scientists for Peace: Updates and Achievements
Dr. R.K. Pachauri,
chairman of the IPCC
The Institute was thrilled to hear that the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) had won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, together with former U.S. vice-president Al Gore, in honor of its rigorous and extensive research on global warming. Dr. R.K. Pachauri, the chairman of the IPCC, is also the president of our Global Union of Scientists for Peace in India.
Dr. Pachauri, who accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the IPCC, first met with Dr. Hagelin in New Delhi in January 2006, during the inaugural conference of GUSP, and since that time these two leaders have exchanged many ideas and research findings about how best to end the proliferation of nuclear arms and create lasting peace on earth. We send our deepest congratulations to Dr. Pachauri and the IPCC for this immensely prestigious and well-deserved honor.
Our other GUSP international activities continue to expand rapidly. In Ghana, some 2,000 students have been instructed in the Transcendental Meditation technique this fall, with another 2,000 waiting to begin, thanks to the support and influence of our Ghanaian GUSP president, former Minister of Health Dr. Agyeman Akosa. Two hundred hectares of land have been obtained for a national Invincible Ghana University, and thousands of hectares have been set aside as part of an organic agriculture project that will help support the new university and its students. Dr. Akosa also plans to launch a national initiative to introduce Maharishi Ayurveda Health Care throughout the country.
In Hungary, South Africa, and Moldova, our GUSP presidents are working to help establish new Consciousness-Based schools and universities whose students can quickly learn the TM and TM-Sidhi programs and thereby create permanent peace-creating groups in their nations. We continue to recruit other top scientists around the world to join GUSP as founding presidents in their countries, and these efforts are now expanding quickly thanks to the ongoing Global Invincibility Tour (see related story) and the interest and support of our international colleagues. With this growing support, we hope to expand GUSP organizations and activities into 192 nations as quickly as possible.
On a related topic, Mr. Joachim Chissano, former President of Mozambique, has just been chosen as the first recipient of the new annual Achievement in African Leadership Award, a $5 million prize given to an outstanding African leader. While in office, President Chissano implemented the Transcendental Meditation program throughout Mozambique to bring balance and harmony to his nation, long ridden by drought, poverty, and civil war. He later commented, “The result has been political peace and balance in nature in my country.” During this time, Mr. Chissano’s son and nephew enrolled as students at Maharishi International University Currently, Mr. Chissano is working in other African nations embroiled in conflict to help broker peace.
Upon hearing this news, Dr. Hagelin, the international director of GUSP, commented, “Mr. Chissano’s inspiring award is yet another indication of how receptive the world has become to our primary approach to peace.”
Dr. Hagelin founded the Global Union of Scientists for Peace in July 2005 to stop the threat of nuclear proliferation and nuclear war through the establishment of large, peace-creating groups in every country (see www.GUSP.org). Since then, he has secured commitments from world-renowned scientists in many nations to serve as the national presidents of GUSP and to help implement peace initiatives in their countries. These scientists in many cases hold key positions of governmental authority, including presidents of national academies of science, and are working with Dr. Hagelin to fulfill the goals of GUSP in their nations.
These initiatives have arisen directly from the first international conference of the Global Union of Scientists for Peace held in January 2006 and a follow-up international GUSP press conference held on November 1, 2006, to present research findings on the impact of the Invincible America Assembly in the United States (see www.demonstrationproject.org). The inaugural conference brought together GUSP presidents from India, Mexico, El Salvador, Moldova, Montenegro, Ghana, South Africa, and Uganda. Addressing the international conference at the Maurya Sheraton Towers in New Delhi, Dr. Hagelin presented the cutting-edge scientific principles underlying the US Peace Government’s proven approach to peace: the discovery of the unified field, its identification with the field of pure consciousness, the profound impact of the Transcendental Meditation technique on brain development, and how large groups of peace-creating experts can create world peace. The GUSP national presidents responded very enthusiastically and are eager to promote these initiatives in their own countries. (Click here to view Dr. Hagelin’s presentation at the conference.)
“Scientists today can equip themselves with a powerful, proven approach to peace and national security—and play a decisive role in the leadership of their nations,” Dr. Hagelin said. “It is no longer necessary to leave the fate of the world in the hands of ignorant politicians with destructive agendas. We can now render such aggressive tendencies utterly impotent by creating an overwhelming physical influence of peace in every nation and around the world—thereby achieving national security and invincibility and creating lasting global peace.”
For more information about the Global Union of Scientists for Peace, please visit www.GUSP.org.