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World Citizen Clubs
December 2019
A new program from World Service Authority and Citizens for Global Solutions lets students start a world citizenship club with friends, a faculty advisor and a constitution, then turn potlucks, film nights and refugee drives into local action on global issues.
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Religious Support for Democratic World Federation
December 2019
The article explores how various religious traditions, from Baha’is to Catholic bishops, advocate for a democratic world federation. These groups propose a global system of enforceable laws and a world constitution to solve global problems, including war, genocide, and environmental degradation.
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COPLA Update
December 2019
A proposed Latin American and Caribbean court against organized crime keeps gaining allies: Paraguay’s deputies, Ecuadorian parliamentarians, Argentina’s president at the UN, regional prosecutors and a Brazilian senator, on the argument that crime has outgrown national courts.
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ICRtoP Update
December 2019
A coalition working to prevent genocide and mass atrocities spent recent months pressing for veto restraint and action on hate speech, putting young women at the centre of prevention, and training civil society in Lebanon to spot early warning signs.
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Representation at a Global Level: The Model United Nations Parliamentary Assembly
December 2019
This article details a Model United Nations Parliamentary Assembly event in Argentina, designed to simulate global governance and raise awareness among students. The simulation focused on key global issues, including environmental preservation, energy transition, and human rights, emphasizing the need for global citizenship.
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Introducing Dr Tawanda Hondora
June 2019
Major powers that use the Security Council for their own ends are feeding wars from Yemen to Libya. Civil society, working in national capitals and enlisting business and young people, must defend the ICC and push to reform global institutions.
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In Memoriam: Takeshi Akune
June 2019
Takeshi Akune’s most recent campaign, a petition against land reclamation at Henoko, Okinawa, drew over 210,000 signatures, including that of Queen guitarist Brian May.
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ICC Update
June 2019
International justice moves unevenly: the ICC acquitted Jean-Pierre Bemba and Laurent Gbagbo, convicted Bosco Ntaganda, still waits on suspects at large in Darfur, Libya and Uganda, and lost the Philippines from the Rome Statute.
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In Memoriam: John Sutter
June 2019
John Sutter, who died in March 2019 at age 93, spent decades after a career in the U.S. Foreign Service and The Asia Foundation promoting democratic international institutions through the World Federalist Association, Democratic World Federalists, and the World Federalist Movement. He was the driving force behind world federalist newsletters in Northern California and a key organizer of the 1995 WFM World Congress in San Francisco, held to mark the 50th anniversary of the UN Charter.
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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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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.
