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Opinion pieces reflect the views of their authors, not necessarily Citizens for Global Solutions.
Peace & DisarmamentOvercoming the Obstacles to UN Maintenance of International Peace and Security
Although, according to the UN Charter, the United Nations was established to “maintain international peace and security,” it has often fallen short of this goal.
Peace & DisarmamentRussia’s Ukraine Invasion: How Do We Find A Peaceful Solution To End War?
A more democratic United Nations, with greater funding and enforcement power, is necessary if we hope to survive this dangerous time. We can move from war to law by reforming and strengthening the United Nations, but it will take some creative thinking and action by all of us.
Climate JusticeClimate Change, the SDGs, and My Father
My father was always the smartest person in the room. Despite never studying medicine, he once assisted a pre-med friend in preparing for an exam entirely by recalling intricate anatomical structures from a biology course he had taken thirty years prior.
Peace & DisarmamentReplacing a Disastrous War with a Just Peace in Ukraine
Grinding on for nearly two years, Russia’s massive military invasion of that country has taken hundreds of thousands of lives, created millions of refugees, wrecked Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure and economy, and consumed enormous financial resources from nations around the world.
World CitizenTime to Unite and Prosper: 75th Anniversaries of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the World Citizenship Movement
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the World Citizenship Movement (WCM).
NewsBetter Global Governance urgently required to address our world’s critical issues
Recommendations from the 2023 Congress of the World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy
United NationsUN Reform: Three Paths Forward
The pillars upon which the international order was built seem to be rapidly deteriorating—from territorial integrity to the laws of war to the breaking of promises—and we find ourselves asking: what is to be done?
Climate JusticePope Francis’ “Laudate Deum” (2023)
According to Pope Francis, “it is no longer possible to doubt the human--‘anthropic’--origin of climate change.” (#11) He says that it is a fact that the average global temperature has risen dramatically with the increase use of fossil fuels.
Peace & DisarmamentTime to Abandon International Anarchy
n December 1934, Arthur Henderson, a leader of the British Labour Party, declared in his speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize that the immense human suffering caused by World War I “led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.”
United NationsWorld Peace and Security Require a Stronger United Nations
This call for strengthening international security under the aegis of the United Nations makes sense not only for Ukraine―a country suffering from brutal military invasion, occupation, and annexation by its much larger, more powerful neighbor, the Russian Federation―but for the nations of the world.
Peace & DisarmamentFrom the Partial Test Ban Treaty to a Nuclear Weapons-Free World
This September is the sixtieth anniversary of U.S. and Soviet ratification of the world’s first significant nuclear arms control agreement, the Partial Test Ban Treaty. Thus, it’s an appropriate time to examine that treaty, as well as to consider what might be done to end the danger of nuclear annihilation.
Peace & DisarmamentDaniel Ellsberg Remembrance (1931-2023)
One of the most wonderful qualities about Daniel Ellsberg, (1931-2023), is that unlike too many of us he got better and better as he grew older.