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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Falling behind on the Sustainable Development Goals
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2021
Civil society groups said the 2021 UN high-level forum on Agenda 2030 offered no bold recommendations and ignored root causes, even as progress on inequality, emissions and hunger had stalled or reversed before COVID-19.
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Canada and UN Peacekeeping
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2021
Canada has 56 military and police personnel in UN operations, WFM–C’s annual fact sheet reports, while its campaign tracks whether Ottawa has kept the pledges made at the 2016 London and 2017 Vancouver peacekeeping ministerials.
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Taxes and Sovereignty: A Complicated Relationship
Young World Federalists · July 2021
Jesus’ response to taxation defines state-church relations. The article explores taxes’ political role through history.
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The poet and the soldier
World Federalist Movement · July 2021
Soldiers often become peace activists, and soldier-poets such as Wilfred Owen convey the futility and human cost of war more powerfully than argument. Campaigners can make the case through logic and economics, but sometimes poetry says it better.
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Transnational Organized Crime in Latin America: A Regional Approach
World Federalist Movement · July 2021
Criminal networks trafficking drugs, people and weapons push Latin America’s murder rate to triple the world average and cost the region about US $236 billion a year. National courts have failed to contain them, so the answer must be regional.
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Must Justice Sleep or Hibernate for the Victims of the Philippines’ ‘War on Drugs’?
World Federalist Movement · July 2021
Filipino civil society leaders fear the ICC probe could be shelved: only one of thousands of extrajudicial killings has ended in a conviction, and Duterte pulled the Philippines out of the Rome Statute.
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New Opinion Piece Series: The Cost of Hibernated Investigations
World Federalist Movement · July 2021
A review panel advised the International Criminal Court to suspend difficult investigations to cope with underfunding. Civil society groups say this would abandon victims, politicise the Court and may cost more, and argue the answer is more resources.
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Should we heed the New Atlantic Charter? Whose Rule of Law? II
World Federalist Movement · July 2021
Law matters because power must be restrained, and treaties, custom, the Geneva Conventions and the ICC already bind states to a degree. A lawmaking General Assembly answerable to an elected parliamentary assembly, and a world court with compulsory jurisdiction, would bind them fully.
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Should we heed the New Atlantic Charter? Whose Rule of Law? I
World Federalist Movement · July 2021
The New Atlantic Charter emphasizes internationalism over multilateralism. The article explores its implications for world federalism and global governance frameworks.
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How to Reconcile the Urge for Nationalism With the Need for Global Governance?
Young World Federalists · June 2021
Under a world federation, nations would keep flags, anthems, languages and schools, while the world level governs only what no country can govern alone, such as climate and war. Nationalists would lose nothing but their fear, and gain one more layer of identity.
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The Chinese Enigma
World Federalist Movement · June 2021
China’s evolving diplomatic approach challenges global governance norms. The article explores tensions between historical isolationism and modern assertiveness in international relations.
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Remarks on Peace-Building in a Post-Covid-19 World
World Federalist Movement · June 2021
Covid left the rich richer and the poor poorer while the largest economies fought trade wars. Its lesson of shared safety should guide a world of enforceable law, summits answerable to citizens, and sovereignty pooled for common gain.
