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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What is Peace?
World Federalist Movement · December 2022
Like love, peace means different things to different people, so its meaning has to rest on agreed law: the crime of aggression in the Rome Statute and human rights now accepted across every faith and culture.
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The Hope for a World Government
World Federalist Movement · December 2022
Fears that a world government would breed strife or be captured by the super wealthy are unfounded. Global diversity would force inclusive coalitions, and a federal level of government would finally be big enough to tax and regulate global corporations.
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Will there ever be world government? A reply.
World Federalist Movement · December 2022
A democratic world federation is both desirable and probably decades away, with one estimate running from 50 to 400 years. Only democracies should form its core, following the path Europeans took from a coal and steel community toward federation.
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Montreux Revisited: Lessons for Today
World Federalist Movement · December 2022
The Montreux Declaration’s legacy informs current debates on global governance. The article highlights historical parallels to today’s Ukraine crisis and the role of international law.
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Imperialist Wars—And What Could Be Done About Them
Citizens for Global Solutions · December 2022
Empires have been built by conquest for centuries, and decolonisation after World War II left newer forms of imperial domination. Anti-imperialist movements, resistance and condemnation help, but only a stronger international security system can end such wars.
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CGS 2022 Global Citizen Award To Pope Francis
Citizens for Global Solutions · December 2022
Bishop John Stowe carried the award from the US to the Vatican, where Cardinal Michael Czerny accepted it for a pope whose teaching, CGS says, backs new structures to solve global problems.
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Human And Environmental Rights Come With Mutual Responsibilities
Citizens for Global Solutions · December 2022
Declarations of human and environmental rights mean little until people accept duties to match. A world court for both kinds of rights, a people’s parliament and a legal status of world citizen would give individuals a say over how the planet is treated.
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A Government Whose Time Has Come
Citizens for Global Solutions · December 2022
Because nations still answer only to the law of force, the Security Council veto and unenforced treaties leave aggression and abuse unpunished. A democratic world government, with national armies cut to policing needs and a global peacekeeping force, is the next step in widening sovereignty.
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World Peace in Peril: Challenging False Narratives
World Federalist Movement · November 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was illegal, but Moscow reads NATO’s eastward growth as encirclement and broken promises. If Ukraine wins, the West must offer a humbled Russia trust and friendship, then pursue disarmament, starting with nuclear arms.
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Remembrance and a demise of the demagogues?
World Federalist Movement · November 2022
Voters in Britain, Brazil and the US have begun turning on charismatic populists, a hopeful sign. Yet a wounded Russia may harden rather than soften, and until war is outlawed, free nations must stand firm for their values.
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International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
World Federalist Movement · November 2022
Conflicts fought over natural resources are twice as likely to flare up again, and war has always ruined land and water. Condemnation is not enough: states need an international environmental court, and ecocide belongs among the crimes the ICC can try.
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The WFM strategy for a “World Constituent Moment”
World Federalist Movement · November 2022
A coalition of willing democracies cannot launch a world parliament while great powers are at war; only a shared danger such as the environmental crisis can. Step-by-step campaigns for a Global Green Deal and a UN parliamentary assembly could start that process.
