World Federalist Movement
The World Federalist Movement, Institute for Global Policy is a nonprofit registered in the United States and the Netherlands, with offices in The Hague and Washington, DC. It works for more effective and accountable global governance, with a democratic world federation as its aim.
Adapted from wfm-igp.org.
Articles
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Building Peace, Security and Justice through the Rule of Law and Global Governance
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
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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Peace Walk & Conference Londonderry, Northern Ireland
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.
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Insignificance and solidarity
September 2021
Global problems need a global response with a direct democratic voice, yet the pandemic and the refugee crisis saw EU states retreat behind national borders. With China expanding and the US pulling back, Europe must recover its shared vision and act as one.
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The Commonwealth as a “Workable World” Model
September 2021
A shared charter of democracy, human rights and the rule of law binds 2.4 billion Commonwealth citizens, and regional blocs from Europe to Africa show how cooperation keeps peace. Judged by one scholar’s ten tests, the Commonwealth passes most and fails a few.
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Afghanistan – the warning from history
September 2021
Afghanistan confirms what history keeps teaching: armed intervention without a realistic objective ends in humiliation, from Russia to Britain to the US. The West should now engage the Taliban, and the country can find stability only through a decentralised federal system based on consent.
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World Federalism – A Mantra or a Pathway
August 2021
World government will never happen, yet world federalism remains a useful framework. The movement should stop debating the end product and build coalitions around concrete goals such as pandemics, artificial intelligence and a nuclear-weapon-free Northeast Asia, as it did for the International Criminal Court.
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Nigerian Victims Deserve More Than Hibernated ICC Investigations – They Deserve Justice
August 2021
Victims of Boko Haram and security-force abuses have little prospect of justice in Nigerian courts, writes Benson Chinedu Olugbuo, so shelving an ICC investigation for lack of resources would leave them nowhere to turn.
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Further Delays Will Prevent the ICC from Righting Its Wrongs in Afghanistan
August 2021
Afghanistan’s ICC investigation faces prolonged delays and political interference. The ICC’s credibility is undermined by U.S. opposition and slow OTP proceedings.
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Hibernations Must Not Curtail the ICC’s Investigation in the Situation in Palestine
August 2021
Al-Haq’s Susan Power argues that the ICC prosecutor has no clear criteria for shelving cases, and that stalling the Palestine inquiry, already examined by ten commissions, would deny justice.
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Green Energy and Sacrifice Zones: Ecocide?
August 2021
Mega-dams and vast solar parks have flooded forests and displaced Indigenous communities from the Amazon to Mexico and the Philippines. A law against ecocide could deter such projects, but only if it is drafted so that harm cannot be greenwashed and clean power is not stalled.
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Delays in Initiating an ICC Investigation in Ukraine Leave Victims in Limbo
August 2021
Victims in Ukraine wait in limbo: the ICC found the criteria for an investigation met in December 2020 but no authorisation has been sought. With domestic justice unlikely, delay risks lost evidence and fleeing perpetrators, and erodes faith in international justice.
