Citizens for Global Solutions
Founded in 1947 as the United World Federalists, Citizens for Global Solutions is a nonpartisan membership organisation based in Washington, DC. It works through advocacy, education and coalition building for enforceable world law and human rights, and co-publishes Mondial with World Federalist Movement – Canada.
Adapted from globalsolutions.org.
Articles
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Nations Of The World Unite!
January 2023
Isolationism does nothing to stop wars elsewhere, and pacifism has too few adherents to prevent them. What curbs violence within nations, laws and courts that bind everyone, could curb it between them: a UN without the veto, with taxing power and an elected world parliament.
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Martin Sherwin’s “Gambling With Armageddon”
January 2023
Martin Sherwin’s ‘Gambling With Armageddon’ examines how nuclear weapons drive nations toward destruction. The Cuban missile crisis highlights the peril of nuclear brinkmanship in Cold War geopolitics.
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The Ukraine War And International Law
January 2023
Russia broke the UN Charter, the Budapest Memorandum and its treaty with Ukraine, and the General Assembly and International Court condemned it, yet Russia ignored them. International law has clear rules but no enforcement, so only a stronger UN and court system can make it bite.
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Imperialist Wars—And What Could Be Done About Them
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
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
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
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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China, Russia, And The Bomb
November 2022
Even close allies balk at nuclear war: Moscow stopped helping China build the bomb after Mao shrugged off losing 300 million people, and Xi has now rebuked Putin’s threats. Deterrence is unreliable; only abolition ends the danger.
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There Is An Alternative To War
October 2022
Military buildups provoke rivals and isolationism leaves aggressors unchecked, so neither prevents war. Strengthened global governance, with a UN freed of the veto, given taxing power, a world parliament and enforcement, offers a real alternative.
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Grandparents And Grandchildren Unite The World
October 2022
War sacrifices people to protect nations, when nations should protect people. Just as the 13 American states agreed to settle disputes in court rather than on the battlefield, the UN could become a federation with a world parliament, a constitution and courts that outlaw war.
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Bye-Bye World: While Nuclear Weapons And Wars Exist, Annihilation Beckons
October 2022
In 1946 most Americans polled backed turning the UN into a world government, and public pressure later won real arms treaties. Now those treaties are being scrapped, and only enforced abolition and a stronger UN can keep any war from ending the world.
