It’s Time to End the Suffering
Our world is being crushed under a torrent of cascading crises. In the past two years alone, we have been buffeted by the twin crises of a global pandemic and...
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Democracy in Decline?
Democracies throughout the world have been giving way to autocracies and nationalist movements in the last 15 years, as many people think. President Biden has announced a global struggle between...
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the World’s Future
By Lawrence S. Wittner Dr. Lawrence S. Wittner is professor of history emeritus at SUNY/Albany and the author of Confronting the Bomb (Stanford University Press). This past January marked the...
War Crimes Are a Feature of the War System
By Byron Belitsos Belitsos is the managing editor of World Citizen, the monthly publication of Citizens for Global Solutions. He is coauthor of One World Democracy: A Progressive Vision for...
Ending the Race to the Bottom on Corporate Taxation
By Jane Shevtsov Jane Shevtsovis an ecologist and board member of the Citizens for Global Solutions. She teaches math for life sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. While...
The General Assembly Jurisdiction to Recommend the Use of Force
The General Assembly Jurisdiction to Recommend Measures to Address Peace and Security Situations This paper attempts to summarize the powers of the General Assembly (GA) to make recommendations on matters...
A New Foundation for a Sustainable World
The 7th Generation Initiative is working with the WFMC to stimulate thinking about what a post-growth world might be like. Growth has been our goal for so many generations that...
Mondial Interviews Amy Oloo Incoming Executive Director of WFM-IGP
Mondial: What are your first thoughts and impressions upon entering into your new position as the executive director of WFM-IGP? Amy: I’m incredibly honored by the opportunity to take on...
Make Peace Possible With a United Nations Emergency Peace Service
President Dwight Eisenhower’s farewell address in 1961 warned us about the existence of a military-industrial complex that exerts “unwarranted influence” and displays “the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced...
An Unusual Relationship: World Federalism and National Populism
In an era plagued by the rise of nationalist populists around the world, it is only fair to see the possibility of achieving world federalist objectives through a more pessimistic...