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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The Women, Peace and Security agenda — and why it is important
June 2019
Peace deals signed by women last longer and are more fully carried out, yet women remain a sliver of mediators, negotiators and peacekeepers. Bringing more women into peace talks is the core aim of a Security Council effort launched in 2000.
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“Straight Talk on Trade” by Dani Rodrik
June 2019
Harvard economist Dani Rodrik’s book ‘Straight Talk on Trade’ (Princeton University Press, 2018) argues that global governance should protect national democratic policy space rather than maximize economic integration, challenging the Chicago school’s faith in autonomous markets. The reviewer finds Rodrik’s ‘federation lite’ model useful for federalists but incomplete, because it underestimates how transnational political movements increasingly shape domestic trade and market stability.
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My Friend Harris Wofford Jr. 1926-2019: Prophet of a United States of the World
June 2019
Long before the Senate and the Kennedy White House, a teenage Harris Wofford founded a movement that spread to 367 campuses and helped create the organization now called Citizens for Global Solutions. He kept faith with a world republic all his life.
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Global Town Halls to Discuss UN Renewal
June 2019
Global Voice and Partner Organizations have launched ‘The Road to 2020,’ a series of Global Town Halls held across the United States to develop recommendations for renewing the United Nations ahead of its 75th anniversary in 2020. The initiative has allied with the Common Home of Humanity project, which frames the Earth’s biophysical boundaries as the foundation for reformed international environmental law and a potential first step toward world federation.
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Reimagining Your United Nations through Model UN (MUN)
June 2019
The Workable World Trust uses Model United Nations conferences to introduce Joe Schwartzberg’s Security Council reform proposal, which replaces the five-member veto system with 12 regional blocs and weighted voting across all 193 UN member states. A pilot at Mexico City’s MIMUN 2019 found that students debating under the reform model produced a unanimous resolution, while reverting to traditional rules saw P5 veto power block the same measure.
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The Right to Peace: A Political Approach
June 2019
A culture of peace can become a recognised human right. The 2016 UN declaration on the right to peace binds no one, but it builds the public opinion that must come before any legal ban on war.
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Towards the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
June 2019
Twenty-five years after 189 governments adopted the Beijing Platform for Action, a chain of national reports, regional reviews, a civil society forum and UN meetings through 2020 aims to turn promises on women’s equality into ambitious, workable plans.
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Union of European Federalists Focuses on Elections
June 2019
The Union of European Federalists releases a 2019 manifesto calling for European Refoundation, proposing a Eurozone Budget and Treasury, a Banking Union, an Unemployment Insurance Scheme, and a European Bank for Climate to counter nationalist and anti-democratic forces threatening EU structures. The manifesto argues that while European markets have integrated, convergence of member state economies remains incomplete and requires further institutional development.
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ICRtoP Update
June 2019
The International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect advances atrocity prevention by linking the R2P norm to gender equality, hosting side events at the Commission on the Status of Women and the UN Security Council debate on protection of civilians. New UN Special Adviser on R2P Karen Smith, appointed by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in December 2018, takes responsibility for developing the norm across the UN system.
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COPLA Update
June 2019
The COPLA campaign, launched by Argentine NGO Democracia Global, advocates for a Latin American and Caribbean Criminal Court to prosecute transnational organized crime leaders and confiscate their assets, drawing on the Palermo Convention as its legal basis. The initiative has secured resolutions from Argentina’s Congress, support from the Mercosur Parliament, and endorsements from President Mauricio Macri and Vice President Gabriela Michetti at the UN General Assembly.
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“Modalities resolution” highlights UN2020 campaign
June 2019
The UN General Assembly’s adoption of resolution A/RES/73/299 sets the organizational framework for the UN’s 75th anniversary in 2020, establishing a Leaders Summit, a political declaration, and a Secretary-General-led global dialogue under the theme ‘The future we want, the United Nations we need.’ The World Federalist Movement-convened UN2020 Initiative shaped the resolution, though civil society groups secured a more limited role than they sought after opposition from Russia, China, and members of the Non-Aligned group.
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The United Nations as a Values-based Community
June 2019
Non-binding UN declarations matter, because drafting such texts is how the world builds a shared moral language. Naming and shaming gives them force, and an elected, more representative General Assembly would make that conversation more legitimate.
