{"id":213,"date":"2013-10-20T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T08:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wfbn.myhoasted.com\/\/?p=213"},"modified":"2024-06-09T10:25:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T08:25:08","slug":"ingredienten-voor-een-werelddemocratie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wfbn.nl\/en\/ingredienten-voor-een-werelddemocratie\/","title":{"rendered":"Ingredients for a world democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marco van Hulten | 20-10-2013<\/span><\/p>\n

This week is the Global Week of Action for a World Parliament<\/a> (17-24 October 2013). This started with a campaign meeting in the European Parliament in Brussels. Having just returned from this, I will report on it after a short introduction to the campaign<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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To address the global democratic deficit, a campaign<\/a> established to establish a Parliamentary Assembly for the United Nations (UNPA<\/a>). There are plenty of examples of the democratic deficit in the world, both inside and outside the United Nations (UN). The Security Council, the World Bank, the IMF and the World Intellectual Property Organization (sic; WIPO) are some UN organizations that have a lot of influence on the world but where there is hardly any democratic control. Global legislation is established through treaties and often even goes outside the UN, which means that all democratic control is gone. Such treaties confirm the need for an elected world parliament<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

During the campaign meeting it emerged that parliamentary democracies do not function as desired and that other forms of decision-making should be considered. As a result, the following statement was made in the Declaration of Brussels<\/em> of the Campaign for the Establishment of a UNPA (CEUNPA) included:<\/span><\/p>\n

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14. With a view to exploring innovative forms of civic participation in a UNPA, implementing models of electronic direct or \u201cliquid\u201d democracy that allows citizens to participate in deliberations or decision-making processes could be considered.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Liquid democracy<\/em> is a form of representative democracy combined with elements of direct democracy. The idea is that each individual can give his or her vote to any other individual. For certain subjects you can directly change your delegate or decide to vote on bills or policies yourself. Recently, this form of democracy has become technically possible for large groups of people through the development of the Internet and the necessary software that implements (elements of) liquid democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Good that liquid democracy<\/em> (fluid democracy) has been mentioned and it may be important to further elaborate on this within the association and at future UNPA conferences.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the conference the WFBN was well represented, and also the Pirates (Gregory Engels, international coordinator Pirate Party and co-chair PPI, and myself). It seems good to me to continue to follow the progress of a UNPA and to analyze attentively how this can democratize the world in the best possible way.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Marco van Hulten | 20-10-2013 Deze week is de Global Week of Action for a World Parliament (17-24 oktober 2013). Deze ving aan met een campagnebijeenkomst in het Europees Parlement in Brussel. Hier net van teruggekomen, doe ik daar verslag van, na een korte introductie over de campagne. Om het democratisch tekort op wereldschaal tegen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wereldburgerschap"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 08:33:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wfbn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wfbn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wfbn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wfbn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wfbn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wfbn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/wfbn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wfbn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wfbn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wfbn.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}