by WFBN | April 28, 2023 | Global Citizenship
Lecture by Peter Davidse, Rome summer 1997, on the invitation of John Ewbank. Introduction When we would look at the Earth from the window of a space station, like the Russian 'Mir', the world is tranquil, undisturbed and amazingly beautiful. Most of us have the...
by WFBN | April 28, 2023 | Global Citizenship
1998-2000 : a historic window of opportunity to build World Democracy by Troy Davis Fifty years ago today, my father, a young and angry American World War 2 veteran, and a bomber pilot who had bombed Brandenburg and Peenemünde, declared himself a Citizen of the World....
by WFBN | April 28, 2023 | Global democracy, United Nations, Global Citizenship
Marjolijn Snippe | 1994 | Let us act towards each other with humility, not arrogance, recognizing that none of us knows all the answers to the manifold problems facing us. / Julius Nyerere Introduction 1. Given is the fact that humanity lives on a planet and...
by WFBN | 20 February 2016 | Global Citizenship
Marco van Hulten | 20-02-2016 The idea of a world parliament was already proposed in the twenties by the League of Nations, the predecessor of the United Nations (UN). Since then, this idea has lived on under the name of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly.
by WFBN | 25 February 2014 | Global Citizenship
Marco van Hulten | 25-02-2014 Early 2014 the ThinkTwice conference took place in Frankfurt am Main, organized by the Pirate Party International (PPI). A number of presentations concerned democracy in the world. Typically, the Pirate Party movement, in line with...
by WFBN | 20 October 2013 | Global Citizenship
Marco van Hulten | 20-10-2013 This week is the Global Week of Action for a World Parliament (17-24 October 2013). It started with a campaign meeting in the European Parliament in Brussels. Having just returned from this, I will report on it, after a short...
