Young World Federalists · October 2026
Global democracy breaks down when the same minority always loses. A proposal for layered government, from country to globe, with a two-thirds dissent rule meant to keep every region inside the system.
Citizens for Global Solutions · July 2026
World Federalist Movement · July 2026
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2026
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World Federalist Movement · November 2025
Hard-won gains, from restraint on nuclear testing to international law, are being reversed. Peace groups should combine their strength, and a louder civil society makes a review of the UN Charter under Article 109 now look viable.
Citizens for Global Solutions · October 2025
With the Ukraine war splitting the great powers into two armed blocs, weapons and sanctions will not avert a wider war. An Article 109 review conference could build an enforceable, democratic UN, bringing the world the peace through law the EU brought Europe.
Citizens for Global Solutions · March 2025
War survives because nations live in near anarchy, where treaties are voluntary and might makes right. The European Union shows the way out: pooling some sovereignty into shared courts and a parliament, which a more democratic world body than the UN could do for everyone.
World Federalist Movement – Canada · September 2024
Mondial’s summer double issue puts writers from inside the Summit of the Future process on the page, then follows the law from the “spirit of The Hague” 125 years ago to today.
World Federalist Movement · August 2024
Arnold Toynbee warned that the atomic age forces a choice between political unification and self-destruction. His remedy was a minimal federal world government, adopted by consent and limited to what survival requires, which now covers climate change too.
World Federalist Movement – Canada · July 2024
Courts, not war: the Law Not War initiative uses the anniversary of the ICC’s founding to argue that the ICC and the ICJ offer a more lasting answer to conflict than force.
Citizens for Global Solutions · July 2024
South Africa challenges Israel’s Gaza treatment. The World Court’s limited jurisdiction hampers global justice.
World Federalist Movement · June 2024
The European Union faces fragmentation without a unified leadership. A constitutional reform is needed to shape a better global order.
Young World Federalists · May 2024
Civil society delegates in Nairobi in May favoured gradual UN reform: a stronger ICJ and Security Council, an emergency platform, a climate emergency declaration and an envoy for future generations. Delegates also backed a UN Parliamentary Assembly through grassroots advocacy.
Young World Federalists · May 2024
Albert Einstein advocated world federalism as a necessity for global peace. He argued that unified governance is essential to address shared challenges like nuclear threats and climate change.
Citizens for Global Solutions · May 2024
Nuclear arsenals grow out of rivalry among sovereign nations, a lesson the first antinuclear campaigners of the 1940s understood and later movements forgot. Treaties bought time, but ending the danger means reforming the international system itself.
World Federalist Movement · April 2024
Abolishing the Security Council veto is possible from within the UN: Charter Article 109 allows a review conference that no veto can block. The Earth Constitution could then serve as the model for a democratic “new UN”, turning the General Assembly into a House of Nations.
