World Federalism
All articles in World Federalism
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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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Mondial Fall 2021: Canada and UN Peacekeeping Fact Sheet – Updated August 2021
World Federalist Movement – Canada · December 2021
Canada has slid from the largest UN peacekeeping contributor until 1992 to 68th place, WFM–C’s fact sheet finds, despite a 2016 pledge of up to 600 military and 150 police personnel that has been only partly kept.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu: A True Servant of the People
World Federalist Movement · December 2021
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner and South African icon, championed justice and reconciliation. His leadership shaped global human rights and world federalism ideals.
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Ukraine-Donbas-Russia: Can the Normandy Format Be Reactivated?
World Federalist Movement · December 2021
With troops massed on Ukraine’s border, the stalled Normandy Format of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany is the best forum left to settle the special status of Donetsk and Luhansk. Progress there would ease the risk of escalation.
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What can we learn from COP26 as world federalists?
World Federalist Movement · November 2021
Glasgow left national interest in charge, as China and India softened the coal pledge and small island states were let down. Yet the US and China agreed to cut emissions together, and the climate fight could spur more democratic, accountable global governance.
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Building Peace, Security and Justice through the Rule of Law and Global Governance
World Federalist Movement · November 2021
Treaties, courts and a deadlocked Security Council show that lasting peace rests on enforceable law, from the International Criminal Court to cases over the Rohingya. The missing piece is a UN Parliamentary Assembly giving the world’s people a voice.
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Peace Walk & Conference Londonderry, Northern Ireland
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.
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Afghanistan – the warning from history
World Federalist Movement · September 2021
Afghanistan confirms what history keeps teaching: armed intervention without a realistic objective ends in humiliation, from Russia to Britain to the US. The West should now engage the Taliban, and the country can find stability only through a decentralised federal system based on consent.
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WFM-IGP Congress charts a new direction
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.
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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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An Interview with Jordan Bankhead
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.
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Many Global Problems, One Global Solution
September 2021
Inequality, pandemics, climate crises and violence share one root: the global community has no government able to enforce law by nonviolent means. The world federalist movement, sidelined by the Cold War, must revive to give it one.
