Blessed is he who visited this world in its fateful moments – Fyodor Tyutchev (1803-1873)
Modern world citizen action has been a response to important challenges faced by the world community. Individuals who saw the dangers of traditional ways of thinking have acted together to promote loyalty to the human family and negotiated responses to violent conflicts.
The Association of World Citizens in its current form as a non-governmental organization in consultative status with the UN was created in 1975 in San Francisco; during the 40th anniversary celebration of the drafting of the UN Charter. Thus; the Association of World Citizens builds upon the efforts of a long line of creative thinkers and active world citizens.
Hugh J. Schonfield – Palestine Confederation
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…
Norman Cousins: A Pioneer of Track II Diplomacy.
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. …
Teilhard de Chardin: The Noosphere and Evolution toward World Unity
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…
Salvador De Madariaga: Conscience of the League of Nations.
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…
The Three Waves of World Citizen Action
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;