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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Delayed Investigations in Côte d’Ivoire Undermine Confidence in the ICC
August 2021
Years of one-sided prosecutions and a 2018 amnesty have eroded Ivorian victims’ trust in the Court, writes Ali Ouatarra, who calls on the ICC to finish its second investigation quickly and fund it fully.
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The poet and the soldier
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
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’?
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
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
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
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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The Chinese Enigma
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
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.
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Global Citizen Democratic Participation in United Nations Institutions
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
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
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.
