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June 2026

Reflections on the UN’s 80th Anniversary

Mail that arrives, planes and ships that do not collide, nuclear safety and food for the hungry all depend on the UN, so its eightieth year deserves celebration. Aid cuts and Charter breaches are reasons to defend and reform it, not to despair.

Climate breakdown, pandemics, nuclear weapons and artificial intelligence cross every border, yet the world has no democratic way to decide what to do about them. Mondial explores the ideas that could change that: new designs for global governance, and federalism at every level, from the city to the United Nations.

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June 2026

Eighty Years of Nuclear Terror

Public movements, not governments, won the test ban and cut the world’s arsenals from about 70,000 warheads to about 12,000. With that movement faded, the arms race is back, and only a revived one can stop it.

June 2026

I Dissent

Every nuclear arsenal rests on a lie, and a world that spends more on weapons than on development has chosen war and poverty over peace.

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Recent writing from organisations across the movement.

About Mondial

Climate breakdown, pandemics, nuclear weapons and artificial intelligence cross every border, yet the world has no democratic way to decide what to do about them. Mondial explores the ideas that could change that: new designs for global governance, and federalism at every level, from the city to the United Nations.

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Global Governance

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Shared problems need global institutions, not great-power rivalry.

An argument from Mondial

The slave trade is commonly misperceived as a historical crime. Yet, the scourge of the slave trade is present throughout the world today.

Rectifying the Rome Statute and Draft Articles on Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity to Include the Slave Trade

World Federalism

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The world needs a democratic federation whose laws bind nations.

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Vol. 9, Issue 1 · June 2026

The print journal, published twice a year since 2017 by Citizens for Global Solutions and World Federalist Movement –⁠ Canada.

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