The Commonwealth of World Citizens. Hugh Joseph Schonfield (1901-1988); was the first to incorporate the term “world citizen” into the name of a non-governmental organization: the Commonwealth of World Citizens in 1938. The Commonwealth of World Citizens was to have an emphasis
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World Citizen Norman Cousins (24 June 1915-30 November 1990) was a pioneer of Track II diplomacy. Track I is official government to government diplomacy among instructed representative of the State. Track II is a non-official effort; usually by a non-governmental organization (NGO)
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Why do we hesitate to open our hearts to the call of the world within us, to the sense of the earth. By ‘sense of the earth’; we mean here the passionate sense of common destiny that draws the thinking fraction of
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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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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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