By Dr. Rene Wadlow. 18 December: International Day of Migrants: Need UN-led Cooperation on Migration and Refugee FlowsRene Wadlow, President, Association of World Citizens 18 December was set by the UN General Assembly to call attention to the role of migrants in
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By Dr. Rene Wadlow. The first two organizations using world citizen in its title “World Citizens Association” date from 1939, the eve of the Second World War when the dangers of aggressive nationalism became evident. Both organizations, one in the USA, the
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By Professor George Kaloudis. Abstract – This article proposes a framework on how to teach the New Globalism so that students can gain a better understanding of the world beyond the confines of the United States. I began teaching my course on globalization
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By Dr. Rene Wadlow James H. Cousins (1873-1956) “We were trying to build bridges between individuals and classes and between the present and the future“We who have grasped the spirit’s handAre not divided when we part;Though men by ghostly shapes possessed,Map their
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By Dr. Rene Wadlow ” The outer message of the United Nations is peace.The inner message is Oneness.Peace – we strive to structure;Oneness – we manifest.” Dag Hammarshjold has written that the United Nations was “the beginning of an organic process through
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Humanity’s growing desire to discover the world and the satisfaction that comes along with a deeper understanding of the world is becoming more pronounced.This is a progressive evolution for humanity. The search for the deeper origin of the soul helps people face
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The human race must be converted to a fresh mental attitude, if it is not to suffer extinction…A new renaissance, much greater than that in which we emerged from the Middle Ages, is absolutely essential. Are we going to draw from the
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In 1993, the then Secretary General of the United Nations, Boutros Boutros-Ghali wrote “From the outset of my mandate, I have been convinced that the structure of the Organization must mirror, as closely as possible, the tasks it is assigned to undertake.
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« There is no doubt that Mankind is once more on the move. The very foundations have been shakened and loosened, and things are again fluid. The tents have been struck, and the great caravan of Humanity is once more on the march. »
Jan Christian Smuts at the end of the 1914-1918 World War
The idea of world citizenship has been put forward in periods when the existing structures of inter- State relations were fragile and endangering life and society: by Socrates when the classic Greek city states were under strain;
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