Mondial Summer 2020: Branch news
pdf available Montreal branch The WFMC Montreal Annual General Meeting has been postponed to the autumn, but vibrant monthly cafe discussions have continued via Zoom. Issues that have been discussed...
News
Mondial Summer 2020: Update on Canada's National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security
pdf available by Monique Cuillerier 2020 is the twentieth anniversary of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, the first Security Council resolution to specifically address women, peace and security. It...
Mondial Summer 2020: Yikes! - Trump’s Middle-East “Peace Plan”
pdf available by Bill Pearce On 28 January, US President Trump held a press conference at the White House to announce his plan to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The plan,...
Mondial Summer 2020: Norman Dyson
pdf available Norman Dyson, Honorary President of the Toronto branch of WFMC, died on May 30th, 2020, at the age of eighty-eight. Dyson graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in...
ICC Update
pdf available The International Criminal Court is currently engaged in eight preliminary examinations, and has thirteen situations under investigation. Preliminary examinations are currently being conducted in Colombia, Guinea, Iraq/UK, Nigeria,...
Mondial Summer 2020: Book Review
pdf available Existing Legal Limits to Security Council Veto Power in the Face of Atrocity Crimes By Jennifer Trahan, Clinical Professor of Law, New York University Cambridge University Press, August...
Mondial Summer 2020: Book notice
pdf available Albert Einstein from Pacifism to the Idea of World Government Lucio Levi, editor (Federalism Volume 12; Centro Studi sul Federalismo) Peter Lang, Brussels, 2020 “Albert Einstein from Pacifism...
Mondial Summer 2020: U.S. attacks on ICC require a Canadian response
pdf available By Fergus Watt Only time will tell what will come of the recent escalation of hostilities between the U.S. government and the International Criminal Court (ICC). A June...
Mondial Summer 2020: Surviving Dystopia: World Federalism Eclipsed
pdf available Myron J. Frankman . . . what lies between us and extinction is horrifying enough, and we have not yet begun to contemplate what it means to live...
Mondial Summer 2020: Canada’s support for UN peace operations falls far short of government commitments
pdf available The Canada and UN Peacekeeping 2020 update, released each year on August 9 by WFMC, demonstrates that the number of Canadian peacekeepers has reached historically low levels. Canadian...
Mondial Summer 2020: The UN at 75: The world planned a party. . . . Then the coronavirus showed up.
pdf available Fergus Watt, UN2020 Campaign Coordinator & Jeffery Huffines, UN2020 Senior Advisor Since 2017 the UN2020 Campaign has provided a platform for a diverse constellation of civil society organizations...
Mondial Summer 2020: Artificial Intelligence and Global Governance
pdf available by Monique Cuillerier New and potential applications of artificial intelligence are often discussed in the media, sometimes as dystopian warnings and other times as indications of a hopeful,...
TakeAction for August 2020: Canada’s support for UN peace operations falls far short of government commitments
The Canada and UN Peacekeeping 2020 update, released each year on August 9 by WFMC, demonstrates that the number of Canadian peacekeepers has reached historically low levels. According to WFMC...
The search for a new prosecutor for the International Criminal Court
The election process for the next Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is scheduled to take place at the nineteenth session of the Assembly of States Parties in December 2020....
The United States formally begins the process to withdraw from the World Health Organization
Following an earlier announcement, US President Donald Trump has notified the US Congress and the United Nations of the United States’ intention to formally withdraw from the World Health Organization....
Trump's Middle East "Peace Plan"
On 28 January, US President Donald Trump announced his plan to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The plan calls for the incorporation of existing Israeli settlements in the West Bank, including...
Toronto World Federalists
World Federation Through the Gradual Accession of Willing States
World Federation Through The Gradual Accession of Willing StatesSummary of a presentation by Alec Neilly, Board of Directors of the Young World Federalists, to the Toronto Branch of the World...
Greening the World Economy For A Sustainable Future
Themes in Seth Klein’s Presentation and Discussion with The Toronto Branch of the World Federalist Movement of Canada on April 12th, 2022. Based on his recent book A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for...
Global Climate Accountability
Summary of Elizabeth May’s Zoom Presentation to the World Federalist Movement Canada, Toronto Branch on May 18, 2021. Her presentation was about a tale of two treaties. The first was...
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...
Blog posts
Introducing Volunteer Office Hours Every Thursday at 1pm
Interested in volunteering? Drop in Thursdays at 1pm! Are you passionate about making a difference and eager to contribute your skills and time? We're excited to announce our new Volunteer...
Join Session #3 of Book Club for a Roundtable Discussion with Mondial Authors!
Authors from the Winter 2023 Edition of Mondial lead the discussion! WFM-Canada will again join CGS in hosting the third book club session this month on Saturday, May 25 at...
Book Club | Session 2: Kekashan Basu on Keep Hope Alive: Essays for a War-Free World
WFM-Canada teamed up with Citizens for Global Solutions (CGS) to co-hosted a compelling book club session, exploring the second half of the honourable Douglas Roche's "Keep Hope Alive: Essays for...
Update on current ICJ cases | Law Not War
The ICJ currently has 23 cases on its docket. Here is a short update on some of them. Obligations of States with respect to Climate Change. On April 12, 2024, the...