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The DAO and the Dao – Finding a Path to Govern the World
World Federalist Movement · March 2022
Decentralized autonomous organizations let members vote on a blockchain with no central authority. Federated worldwide and guided by the Dao’s sense of interconnection, they could let people vote on global issues and act locally, replacing the nation-state order.
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Fasttracking East African Federation
Young World Federalists · December 2021
East Africa’s integration efforts faced collapse due to political tensions and economic disparities. A revived East African Community now includes Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, and South Sudan.
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Reflections on Ventotene 2021
Young World Federalists · September 2021
Young European federalists still lack a vision for the world of their own, and some carry national pride into talk of an EU army. Every federalist should see themselves as a world citizen first, and young world federalists need an annual seminar of their own, at Montreux.
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Insignificance and solidarity
World Federalist Movement · 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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An Integrated Movement: The necessary steps to unite the world
September 2021
A member of the Young World Federalists argues that the global federalist movement must overcome its internal fragmentation by uniting under a single umbrella, with shared branding, pooled membership, and a revitalized WFM-IGP, drawing on the experience of the movement-wide Working Group and the newly formed WFM-IGP Advisory Council. The author contends that operating in silos obscures the movement’s real strength and makes unified action on a world federation impossible.
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TakeAction for August 2021: National Peacekeepers Day and Canada’s UN Peacekeeping Commitments
World Federalist Movement – Canada · August 2021
Canada’s UN peacekeeping contribution ranks 68th globally. The WFMC Canadians for Peacekeeping campaign urges increased federal support for UN missions.
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World Federalism – A Mantra or a Pathway
World Federalist Movement · 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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Canada and UN Peacekeeping
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2021
Canada has 56 military and police personnel in UN operations, WFM–C’s annual fact sheet reports, while its campaign tracks whether Ottawa has kept the pledges made at the 2016 London and 2017 Vancouver peacekeeping ministerials.
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Taxes and Sovereignty: A Complicated Relationship
Young World Federalists · July 2021
Jesus’ response to taxation defines state-church relations. The article explores taxes’ political role through history.
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The poet and the soldier
World Federalist Movement · 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
World Federalist Movement · 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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Should we heed the New Atlantic Charter? Whose Rule of Law? I
World Federalist Movement · July 2021
The New Atlantic Charter emphasizes internationalism over multilateralism. The article explores its implications for world federalism and global governance frameworks.
