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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Mondial Fall 2021: Obituary of Ian Waddell
World Federalist Movement – Canada · December 2021
A lawyer, filmmaker and veteran MP who helped draft Section 35 of the 1982 Constitution has died in Vancouver. A backer of a UN Parliamentary Assembly, he was proud of Canadian world federalists’ part in creating the International Criminal Court.
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Mondial Fall 2021: Obituary of Duncan Graham
World Federalist Movement – Canada · December 2021
A world federalist for over sixty years has died at 92. He helped found the Toronto branch, revived Vancouver’s in the 1990s, and wanted his legacy to be a common humanity that finally unites.
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Mondial Fall 2021: Canada and UN Peacekeeping Fact Sheet – Updated August 2021
World Federalist Movement – Canada · December 2021
Canada has slid from the largest UN peacekeeping contributor until 1992 to 68th place, WFM–C’s fact sheet finds, despite a 2016 pledge of up to 600 military and 150 police personnel that has been only partly kept.
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Canadian Foreign Policy and Global Governance After the Federal Election
World Federalist Movement – Canada · December 2021
World Federalists press Canada’s new government to rebuild its UN peacekeeping role (68th in the world, with strong public support), address nuclear weapons and engage the Secretary-General’s Our Common Agenda.
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Fasttracking East African Federation
Young World Federalists · December 2021
East Africa’s integration efforts faced collapse due to political tensions and economic disparities. A revived East African Community now includes Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, and South Sudan.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu: A True Servant of the People
World Federalist Movement · December 2021
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner and South African icon, championed justice and reconciliation. His leadership shaped global human rights and world federalism ideals.
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Ukraine-Donbas-Russia: Can the Normandy Format Be Reactivated?
World Federalist Movement · December 2021
With troops massed on Ukraine’s border, the stalled Normandy Format of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany is the best forum left to settle the special status of Donetsk and Luhansk. Progress there would ease the risk of escalation.
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What can we learn from COP26 as world federalists?
World Federalist Movement · November 2021
Glasgow left national interest in charge, as China and India softened the coal pledge and small island states were let down. Yet the US and China agreed to cut emissions together, and the climate fight could spur more democratic, accountable global governance.
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Building Peace, Security and Justice through the Rule of Law and Global Governance
World Federalist Movement · November 2021
Treaties, courts and a deadlocked Security Council show that lasting peace rests on enforceable law, from the International Criminal Court to cases over the Rohingya. The missing piece is a UN Parliamentary Assembly giving the world’s people a voice.
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Uncertainty regarding the ICC’s delayed preliminary examination in Venezuela
World Federalist Movement · October 2021
Venezuela’s victims have no remedy at home and were already blocked from the Inter-American system, so Valentina Ballesta of Amnesty International urges the ICC prosecutor to open an investigation without delay or hibernation.
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Reflections on Ventotene 2021
Young World Federalists · September 2021
Young European federalists still lack a vision for the world of their own, and some carry national pride into talk of an EU army. Every federalist should see themselves as a world citizen first, and young world federalists need an annual seminar of their own, at Montreux.
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Peace Walk & Conference Londonderry, Northern Ireland
World Federalist Movement · September 2021
Bloody Sunday is still a living wound in Derry, yet the Good Friday Agreement, South Africa’s truth commission and victims who forgave their attackers show that hatred can end. Peace needs reconciliation, which begins by seeing a conflict from the other side.
