{"id":656,"date":"2011-02-04T17:40:19","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T17:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/2011\/02\/04\/statement-on-exopolitics-michael-salla\/"},"modified":"2011-02-04T17:40:19","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T17:40:19","slug":"statement-on-exopolitics-michael-salla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/statement-on-exopolitics-michael-salla\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement on Exopolitics &#038; Michael Salla &#8211; Updated with Salla&#8217;s rejection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am very happy that Michael Salla has finally publicly owned up, and begun to realistically describe his contributions to Exopolitics, the science of relations among civilization in the multi-verse.<\/p>\n<p>His description of his work in Exopolitics at Mary Sutherland&#39;s BUFO is historically and legally correct:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Michael Salla, PhD (Australia) is the founder of Exopolitics.org, a website launched with the online publication of a study paper, &quot;The Need for Exopolitics.&quot;&#0160; Dr Salla has held academic appointments in the United States (1996-2001), and the Department of Political Science, Australian National <br \/>University, Canberra, Australia (1994-96). He taught as an adjunct faculty member at George Washington University, Washington DC., in 2002.&#0160; He is currently researching methods of Transformational Peace as a Researcher in Residence in the Center for Global Peace (2001-2003) and directing the Center&#39;s Peace Ambassador Program which uses transformational peace techniques for individual self-empowerment. He has a PhD in Government from the University of Queensland, Australia, and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Melbourne, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He is the author of The Hero&#39;s Journey Toward a Second American Century (Greenwood Press, 2002) and author\/coeditor of three other books: Essays on Peace (Central Queensland University Press, 1995); Why the Cold War Ended (Greenwood Press, 1995); and Islamic Radicalism, Muslim <br \/>Nations and the West (1993). He has authored more than seventy articles, chapters, and book reviews on peace, ethnic conflict and conflict resolution. He has conducted research and fieldwork in the ethnic conflicts in East Timor, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Sri Lanka. He has organized a number of international workshops involving mid to high level participants from these conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;His inspiration for creating the Exopolitics web site comes from a lifelong interest in extraterrestrial related phenomena and from his professional experience that to adequately resolve international conflict one must always address the roots. Dealing with the extraterrestrial presence is essential for establishing global peace.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonnews.net\/interviewsalla.html\" target=\"_self\">http:\/\/www.burlingtonnews.net\/interviewsalla.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To be in full compliance with historical and legal fact about the founding of Exopolitics, Michael Salla must now revise one statement in his current Wikipedia entry to conform with the above.<\/p>\n<p>His Wikipedia states &#8211; as of Feb. 4, 2011 &#8211; &quot;Exopolitics &#8211; The concept of Exopolitics was formulated by Michael Salla.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>That statement is incorrect and represents a violation of intellectual property rights and copyright of Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd who first formulated Exopolitics in his 2000 book Exopolitics: A Decade of Contact, on which Dr. Salla based his January 20, 2003 paper, &quot;The Need for Exopolitics.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Revising this statement in Exopolitics is not too much to ask, now that Michael Salla has begun to set the historical and legal record straight.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you,<\/p>\n<p>Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd<br \/>Attorney At Law<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.exopolitics.com\" target=\"_self\">Exopolitics.com<\/a><br \/>Vancouver, BC<br \/>Feb. 4, 2011<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR THE  RECORD, HERE IS MICHAEL SALLA&#39;S RESPONSE TO THE ABOVE STATEMENT. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In my  judgment, Salla continues to avoid responsibility by lying about his  theft of intellectual property in 2003 using clever and snide remarks to  do so, and has chosen to reject settlement of this matter.  It is  common to direct persons to change incorrect details on your biography  in Wikipedia, for example. In Light, Alfred Lambremont Webre, Vancouver,  Feb, 5, 2011<\/p>\n<p> &quot;Richard, regarding the Wikipedia biographical entry concerning me, it  is contrary to Wikipedia rules for the subject of a bio entry to alter  it. I have no control over my Wikipedia entry, nor do I post on  Wikipedia. As for who is responsible for formulating the concept of  exopolitcs I have dealt at length with the historical development of  exopolitics here:<br \/> http:\/\/exopoliticsjournal.com\/Journal-vol-1-1-Salla.pdf<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The meaning I give to expolitics in terms of how the ET issue  impacts on human political affairs has been widely adopted which is why  Wikipedia authors and others attribute the term&#39;s origin to me. Webre&#39;s  definition of exopolitics, like much of his work, is too controversial  and marginal. When I first came across it in 2003, I didn&#39;t use it since  it was way too premature to talk about relations between  extraterrestrial civilizations when people are still debating evidence  of ET life visiting Earth.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;As for Webre&#39;s claim that he holds the intellectual property rights  and copyright of exopolitics, I have to conclude that he is launching a  new career as a comedian. That&#39;s a good thing since we all need to laugh  more in dealing with these disputes.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Aloha<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Michael Salla&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by:  \t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.exopolitics.com\/\">Alfred Lambremont Webre<\/a>&#0160;|&#0160;<a href=\"http:\/\/exopolitics.blogs.com\/exopolitics\/2011\/02\/statement-on-exopolitics-michael-salla.html?cid=6a00d8341c73dd53ef0148c85e8bf6970c#comment-6a00d8341c73dd53ef0148c85e8bf6970c\">February  05, 2011 at 01:53 PM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am very happy that Michael Salla has finally publicly owned up, and begun to realistically describe his contributions to Exopolitics, the science of relations among civilization in the multi-verse. His description of his work in Exopolitics at Mary Sutherland&#39;s BUFO is historically and legally correct: &quot;Michael Salla, PhD (Australia) is the founder of Exopolitics.org, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}