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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Global Citizen Democratic Participation in United Nations Institutions
World Federalist Movement · June 2021
Pandemic vaccine nationalism showed the cost of having no global layer of government. A proposed experiment would let people elect global citizen representatives to attend UN agency conferences, giving a voice to those who have none and building a roadmap towards Charter reform.
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Memories of founding the Spinelli Institute
World Federalist Movement · June 2021
Young recruits were the aim when the Spinelli Institute grew out of the 1980 Bari Congress, and its Ventotene seminars drew federalists from Europe, Africa and beyond. Its work should stay on training young activists, not academic study.
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G7 and World Federalism: Considerations for Global Governance
World Federalist Movement · June 2021
World federalists should stop bickering over purity and pragmatism and build on existing models: seven of the eight largest countries are federal, and regional bodies have parliamentary oversight, but the G7 has none. First, civil society needs formal recognition alongside the G7.
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World Federalism is not Big Brother
World Federalist Movement · June 2021
Pandemic controls and surveillance have made people distrust states, and critics paint global federation as tyranny. Federalism does the opposite: it leaves decisions at the lowest workable level, demands accountability to the people and reconciles individual with collective rights.
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The pandemic slogan must be applied globally
World Federalist Movement · June 2021
Covid taught that no one is safe until everyone is safe, and the same holds for climate, poverty and clean water. Acting on it needs enforceable world law and accountable global bodies, and pooled sovereignty enlarges a nation rather than shrinking it.
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Engaging with AI Global Governance
World Federalist Movement · June 2021
The World Federalist Movement establishes a Transnational Working Group on AI governance. The group focuses on mapping AI’s global implications and shaping a governance framework for emerging technologies.
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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: a federalist review
Young World Federalists · May 2021
Marvel’s political series treats global problems through an American lens, never says what its Flag-Smashers want, and reduces the international system to treating refugees well. Its one useful thread is who holds power and answers for it.
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Listen to the People: No One Wants Nuclear War
Young World Federalists · May 2021
Most people, including 73% of Americans and 63% of Russians, favour eliminating nuclear weapons, yet governments stay locked in a security dilemma that rewards building more. A binding world parliament could close the gap between public will and state policy.
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It’s Time for a Nuclear-weapon-free Northeast Asia
World Federalist Movement · May 2021
Northeast Asia has been in a state of war since 1945. A treaty among Japan and the two Koreas, guaranteed by the US, China and Russia, would create a nuclear-weapon-free zone, and a coalition modelled on the one for the International Criminal Court could drive it.
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TakeAction for March 2021: Building peace & security
World Federalist Movement – Canada · March 2021
Because China’s Security Council seat blocks UN action on Myanmar’s coup, Canada should widen its limited sanctions on the military, and readers are urged to write to the foreign minister.
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Mondial Spring 2021: WFMC President Walter Dorn appears before Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs
World Federalist Movement – Canada · March 2021
Walter Dorn urges Canada to sign the treaty banning nuclear weapons, having joined the chemical and biological bans, and suggests the World Health Organization be given the OPCW’s any-time inspection powers.
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Mondial Spring 2021: WFMC Honours Carol Greene
World Federalist Movement – Canada · March 2021
A lifetime of letter-writing, chairing a Montreal action group and quiet persistence earned a long-serving member the Hanna Newcombe Award. At 85, discouraged by rising nationalism, she stays hopeful, because ideas only work if people do.
