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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Norman Cousins: Peacemaker in the Atomic Age
December 2023
Allen Pietrobon’s biography of Norman Cousins chronicles how the Saturday Review editor shaped Cold War peace advocacy through a network spanning Nikita Khrushchev, Pope John XXIII, and John F. Kennedy, leading United World Federalists and co-founding the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. Cousins brokered the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963 and dedicated decades to ending the wars in Vietnam and Biafra while arguing that nuclear weapons made world government a necessity.
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The Peacemakers: India’s Quest for One World
December 2023
Manu Bhagavan’s history, chosen by a world citizen book club, shows India’s independence leaders tying freedom from empire to a democratic One World, and India steering the creation of two separate human rights covenants.
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Toward the Summit of the Future: Building the UN We Need
December 2023
Dialogues and surveys reaching some 1.5 million people shaped the September 2024 summit, and civil society coalitions are drafting a People’s Pact to push leaders past old tools toward a UN fit for this century.
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How a World Federation Can Respect and Protect LGBTQI+ Rights
December 2023
World federalism advocates for universal human rights, but the current international human rights treaties reflect outdated political and social realities. Addressing evolving social and political realities, such as the struggles of LGBTQI+ persons, is crucial for effective global governance.
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Climate Change Lawsuits Around the World
December 2023
Climate change litigation is exploding globally, with thousands of lawsuits seeking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These legal actions, often relying on human rights law, aim to force corporations and nation-states to adopt more stringent environmental measures.
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The United States Should Ratify the Rome Statute
December 2023
Washington’s claim that the ICC cannot touch nationals of countries that never joined is outdated and hypocritical, as Russia’s war on Ukraine shows. After two decades of watching the court work, the US should finally join the court it helped design.
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In Defense of an Idealist Approach to UN Reform
December 2023
World Federalists advocate for fundamental changes to the UN system, arguing that the Security Council’s structure is inherently undemocratic. The article details how the veto power of the P5 members stifles global progress, preventing effective world policy from coming to fruition.
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UN Reform: Three Paths Forward
December 2023
The article examines the state of global governance, noting that the international order’s pillars are rapidly deteriorating. It proposes three viable paths forward: recommitting to the current system, pursuing deeper reforms, or finding alternative solutions.
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International Poll: Public Supports a World Parliament and World Law
December 2023
Clear majorities in Kenya, India and most of the 15 countries polled want an elected world parliament able to pass binding global law. Support fell below half only in Poland, Britain and the US, so the obstacle lies with governments, not voters.
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How Strengthened Global Governance Could Produce a Nuclear-Free World
December 2023
The world faces an existential nuclear danger, with nine nuclear powers engaged in an arms race and military confrontations. Creating a nuclear-free world, however, remains possible through global cooperation and disarmament efforts.
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For Oppenheimer, a World Government Was the Only Way to Save Us From Ourselves
December 2023
Oppenheimer, a leading proponent of world government, argued that international control was the only way to prevent a nuclear arms race. His early proposals for an international Atomic Development Agency laid the groundwork for global cooperation.
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YWF President speaks at JEF European Congress in Madrid
Young World Federalists · November 2023
Eston McKeague tells young European federalists that regional unions can ease the nation-state system’s flaws rather than copy them, and that YWF stays neutral on how a world federation should be reached.
