All Mondial articles
Every article from the Citizens for Global Solutions and World Federalist Movement – Canada journal, alongside selected writing from allied organisations, searchable and cross-referenced by topic, issue and source.
Articles
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Force Multiplication for Peace, Enter United Nations Peace Corps
World Federalist Movement · January 2024
The United Nations faces bureaucratic and geopolitical challenges. The U.S. subsidizes the UN despite its ambivalent public perception.
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Preventing the Expansion of the Gaza Conflict: Are Peace Brigades a Possibility?
World Federalist Movement · January 2024
With Gaza’s violence spreading to the West Bank and Lebanon, unarmed non-governmental teams placed on the frontier might give antagonists room to cool off. Past efforts in Nicaragua and the Gulf show both promise and limits, and recruiting and logistics would be hard.
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Wherein lies the source of evil?
World Federalist Movement · January 2024
Peace activists must face the human appetite for violence, which religion alone cannot explain. Effective ones speak out against scapegoating, protect minorities and persevere, because a peaceful world order has to start from honesty about human nature.
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Mondial Featured Poem: What I Do In The War
World Federalist Movement – Canada · December 2023
A poem reflects on loss and resilience amid conflict. The author offers solace through small acts of kindness and collective remembrance.
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Mondial Winter 2023: Remembering Canadian World Federalists
World Federalist Movement – Canada · December 2023
Mary June Pettyfer, Canadian world federalist, died in 2023. Her life reflected commitment to global governance reform and addressing climate crisis.
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Mondial Winter 2023: Letter From the Editorial Board
World Federalist Movement – Canada · December 2023
Mondial marks the 75th anniversaries of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Genocide Convention. The journal advocates for democratic world federation as a framework for global peace and justice.
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Stopping Human Trafficking
World Federalist Movement · December 2023
The World Federalist Movement addresses human trafficking on Human Rights Day. The speech highlights the Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ role in global peace and freedom.
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European Constitutional Reform Hangs in the Balance
World Federalist Movement · December 2023
The EU’s constitutional reform proposal faces rejection. A divided European Parliament fails to secure majority support for deeper governance changes.
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Impunity and Models of Global Order: A Baha’i Perspective
World Federalist Movement · December 2023
The Baha’i Faith envisions a federal world governance system as a path to global peace. The article links this vision to Pinker’s thesis on declining violence and critiques current trends in conflict and impunity.
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Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls
World Federalist Movement · December 2023
Nargess Mohammadi, Iranian activist imprisoned in Evin, campaigns against gender-based violence and capital punishment. Her advocacy highlights systemic oppression and the struggle for women’s rights in Iran.
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Time to Unite and Prosper: 75th Anniversaries of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the World Citizenship Movement
Citizens for Global Solutions · December 2023
Universal rights cannot be secured by nation-states that guard absolute sovereignty. The task for the coming decades is to build world law and a legal status of world citizen, so the rights proclaimed in 1948 are finally made real.
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Imagine
December 2023
Religious leaders who travelled to Gaza, Israel and Ukraine, and stayed until each side accepted binding arbitration before a neutral international court, could break the cycle of attack and retaliation. What keeps the world from peace may be, in part, a failure of imagination.
