World Federalist Movement · February 2026
At a Westminster service marking eighty years since the UN first met there, Cardinal Vincent Nichols called its founding a covenant against vengeance and prayed for the renewal of international institutions as nationalism rises and multilateralism falters.
Young World Federalists · August 2024
World Federalist Movement – Canada · May 2024
World Federalist Movement – Canada · April 2024
December 2023
March 2023
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.
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.
World Federalist Movement · 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.
September 2021
A new strategic plan to secure long-term sustainability won approval at the first online congress, while the election of a new Executive Committee waits for a resumed session on October 30 and 31.
September 2021
Paris Agreement pledges would trim emissions yet still allow about 2.7°C of warming, because each country writes its own promise and none is bound to keep it. Glasgow will test whether a treaty built on pledges can be enough.
June 2020
This article details the formation and initial congress of the United World Federalists in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1947. Speakers at the event called for global unity and cooperation to prevent future conflicts and build a world of peace.
December 2019
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.
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.
