World Federalist Movement · March 2026
Humans follow the herd, and leaders exploit the instinct by turning groups against scapegoats. Migration and mixing make racial purity a myth: humanity is one people of many cultures, and nations, like individuals, need enforced laws to live in peace.
World Federalist Movement · August 2025
World Federalist Movement · February 2025
Young World Federalists · August 2024
June 2024
World Federalist Movement · April 2024
December 2023
Citizens for Global Solutions · September 2023
World Federalist Movement · September 2023
Deterring refugees does not work, and the EU has never shared the burden fairly among its members. Wealthy states should invest where people flee from, speed up asylum decisions, and set up a permanent international scheme for safe passage and agreed resettlement quotas.
World Federalist Movement · May 2023
Everyone has a conscience, religious or not, and rulers fear religion because it divides allegiance and teaches care for others. International law must stay universal and secular, yet it needs conscience to guide it and reconciliation between faiths.
World Federalist Movement · December 2022
Like love, peace means different things to different people, so its meaning has to rest on agreed law: the crime of aggression in the Rome Statute and human rights now accepted across every faith and culture.
World Federalist Movement · July 2022
Western individual rights and Asian collective ones are not at odds: Confucian and Islamic traditions both affirm what the Universal Declaration sets out. What the world still lacks is not agreement on rights but the means to enforce them.
World Federalist Movement · July 2022
Few nations can stand alone, wars leave problems unsolved, and public attitudes swing back and forth. Federalists should court business as well as governments, and be ready to bring a post-Putin Russia back into cooperation, the chance missed after the Cold War.
World Federalist Movement · September 2021
A shared charter of democracy, human rights and the rule of law binds 2.4 billion Commonwealth citizens, and regional blocs from Europe to Africa show how cooperation keeps peace. Judged by one scholar’s ten tests, the Commonwealth passes most and fails a few.
September 2021
Jordan Bankhead uses his novel Chaos Magic to promote world federalism, arguing that global crises are necessary for international cooperation. He suggests that achieving global political unity requires a cataclysm, as great powers are unlikely to voluntarily give up their power.
September 2021
This article examines how various religious groups and leaders advocate for a democratic world federation to solve global crises like genocide and climate change. These groups propose a world constitution and global laws to replace the current system of warfare and unenforceable treaties.
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
The article argues that the development of a single global community requires both a strong governance structure and a common language. It proposes that a neutral, phonetic global second language, such as Esperanto, is necessary to facilitate cooperation while preserving linguistic diversity.
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.
June 2019
Non-binding UN declarations matter, because drafting such texts is how the world builds a shared moral language. Naming and shaming gives them force, and an elected, more representative General Assembly would make that conversation more legitimate.
