Community & Voices

December 2019

Star Trek Beams Down to the CGS Annual Meeting

Citizens for Global Solutions hosted Rod Roddenberry, son of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, at its Annual Meeting in Los Angeles for a conversation with CGS policy director Tad Daley on the parallels between the show's United Federation of Planets and a real-world world federation. Roddenberry endorsed the idea of global government and discussed how his father used the Enterprise's diverse crew to challenge racial and national divisions during the Cold War era.

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June 2026

The Future in the Past by S.M. Sharei

by Joseph Preston Baratta

Dr. Mahmud Sharei's book argues for UN constitutionalization through Article 109(3). The author traces the evolution of international law and global governance frameworks.
June 2026

My Life in Politics by Lloyd Axworthy

by Rev. Dr. Karen Hamilton

Lloyd Axworthy's memoir explores his political journey and advocacy for global governance. His work intersects with World Federalism and international humanitarian law.
March 2023

New book explores global solutions to global problems

by Keith McNeil

Keith McNeil reviews 'Breaking Boundaries' by Johan Rockstrom and Owen Gaffney, a book and companion documentary on the planetary boundaries that define a safe operating space for humanity. He highlights its case for global cooperation and notes where world federalists might extend the argument toward democratic global governance.
March 2023

Biodiversity: A Pledge, Now Action

by René Wadlow

Rene Wadlow reports on the agreement reached at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) in Montreal in December 2022, where delegates adopted a new Global Biodiversity Framework. He weighs the promise of the pledges, the role of civil society, and the risk that implementation and funding could fall short.
March 2023

Winter is coming in Ukraine: Are there prospects for peace?

by Robin Collins and Sylvie Lemieux

Robin Collins and Sylvie Lemieux, co-chairs of the Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, weigh the prospects for ending the war in Ukraine. Drawing on a panel discussion, they consider NATO's posture, the risks of escalation, and the role Canada and civil society could play in building a durable peace platform.
June 2019

ICC Update

by Monique Cuillerier

An overview of the International Criminal Court's active work in mid 2019: ten preliminary examinations, eleven situations under investigation, and 26 cases involving 42 defendants. The update summarizes the status of proceedings across situations including Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, Cote d'Ivoire, Darfur, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Libya, Kenya, Mali, and Uganda.
December 2023

Toward the Summit of the Future: Building the UN We Need

by Nudhara Yusuf and Rebecca A. Shoot

The Summit of the Future, set for September 2024, aims to forge a new international consensus on delivering a better present and safeguarding the future. Civil society organizations, including C4UN, are galvanizing global participation to provide input on this critical milestone.
December 2023

Norman Cousins: Peacemaker in the Atomic Age

by Lawrence S. Wittner

Allen Pietrobon's biography of Norman Cousins chronicles how the Saturday Review editor shaped Cold War peace advocacy through a network spanning Nikita Khrushchev, Pope John XXIII, and John F. Kennedy, leading United World Federalists and co-founding the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. Cousins brokered the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963 and dedicated decades to ending the wars in Vietnam and Biafra while arguing that nuclear weapons made world government a necessity.
December 2023

The Peacemakers: India’s Quest for One World

by Andrea Klein Bergman

Historian Manu Bhagavan's The Peacemakers explores how Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit shaped India's independence struggle and early foreign policy around a vision of democratic world government and human rights. Bhagavan challenges the assumption that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights derives primarily from Cold War American influence, arguing instead that India steered the creation of two separate rights covenants.
December 2023

Imagine

by David C. Oughton

CGS board member David C. Oughton imagines the Pope, the Dalai Lama, and other religious leaders traveling to Gaza, Israel, Ukraine, and other conflict zones, committed to staying until all parties accept binding arbitration through a neutral international court. He argues that the lack of world peace is partly a failure of imagination and that the world's religions bear a responsibility to build the foundations for a democratic world federation.
June 2024

Keep Hope Alive: Essays for a War-Free World

by Blake MacLeod

Hon. Douglas Roche's essay collection Keep Hope Alive connects nuclear disarmament, climate change, and socioeconomic inequality as interlocking crises requiring coordinated global governance, drawing on his career as Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament and Chairman of the United Nations Disarmament Committee. Roche credits grassroots civil society movements alongside UN-centered international cooperation as the twin levers for building a war-free world.
June 2024

The Idealist: Wendell Willkie’s Wartime Quest to Build One World

by Lawrence S. Wittner

Wendell Willkie, a once-influential figure, launched a popular campaign for “global interdependence” during World War II. His vision argued that American independence required a new form of cooperation with the world, advocating for an end to empire and self-determination.