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Will Canada Champion Global Democracy?

Canadians can be proud of their notable contributions to the United Nations, including vital support for the Land Mines Treaty and the International Criminal Court. If the Liberal government wishes...

Toward a “UN Spring"

The United Nations is currently locked in a rigid and outdated structure, unable to reform itself. Because of its inability to adapt to a changing world, the UN is severely...

The Solution is a Global Vision

The quote “never, never, never give up” by Winston Churchill comes to mind when trying to understand and counter the global regression we are in with re-arming of nuclear weaponry, under-mining...

A Quantum Leap In Human Sovereignty

Clearly, World Government is not a new idea; yet the reason why it hasn’t been implemented and has become a much silenced idea is because national governments and the many...

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...

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...

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the World’s Future

This past January marked the first anniversary of the entry into force of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This momentous international agreement — the result of...

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...

War Crimes Are a Feature of the War System

The Ukraine conflict has been a grim reminder that barbaric warfare is too often the result of our flawed international security system—or, what world federalists often call the “war system”...

Mondial Interviews Amy Oloo Incoming Executive Director of WFM-IGP

"I’m incredibly honored by the opportunity to take on this role, but I’m also hyper-aware of the enormous responsibility that comes with the position. My mind is also racing with...

Ending the Race to the Bottom on Corporate Taxation

While globalization has brought many benefits — such as economic efficiency, international collaboration and cross-cultural exchange — it has also come with a number of costs. One is a race...

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...

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...

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...

Anxiety Looms As Global Economy Enters Shutdown

With a pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and a global economy in crisis, the world sets its sights on an uncertain future. The global COVID-19 pandemic shifted everything from how...

Reforming International Economic Institutions, For a More Prosperous, Just And Sustainable World Economic Order

Responding to the financial distress of the Great Depression and World War II, nations came together in 1944 at a conference in Bretton Woods, USA, to create an international monetary...