Peace & DisarmamentA World Parliament Is Our Best Hope for Avoiding a Plunge Into Nuclear Anarchy
In 2011, the New START Treaty, which had been signed by the United States and Russia the previous year, came into effect....
Sovaida Maani Ewing
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Sovaida Ma’ani Ewing is an author, speaker, and international lawyer with 20 years of experience in private and government legal practice. She is the founding director of The Center for Peace and Global Governance (cpgg.org), a virtual think tank and online forum that pools and proposes principled solutions to pressing global challenges. She has published five books in the area of peace and global governance including “Building a World Federation: The Key to Resolving our Global Crises.” Her latest book, available on Amazon, is “The Alchemy of Peace: 6 Essential Shifts in Mindsets and Habits to Achieve World Peace.” She also hosts a video podcast "Re-Imagining Our World” on the CPGG YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/centerforpeaceandglobalgovernancecpgg -- that is dedicated to creating a vision of the world we want and infusing hope that we can make the choices necessary to attain it. She is also a member of the Board of Directors for Citizens for Global Solutions.
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Climate JusticeThe Emperor Has No Clothes: COP29
The ability to see and accept things as they are is difficult for us humans. We tend to repeat behaviors that fail...
Peace & DisarmamentHUMANITY HAS TWO CHOICES: POLITICAL UNIFICATION OR MASS SUICIDE
Toynbee predicted that global circumstances we unwittingly created through our technological advancements would eventually force us to submit to a limited world government once we realized it was our only hope for salvation in the face of an existential threat.
Peace & DisarmamentFixing Our Broken International System of Justice
We live in a global family of more than 190 countries. Disputes and squabbles inevitably arise in all families; what matters is how we settle them.
Peace & DisarmamentAre We Sleepwalking Our Way Into a Nuclear War?
The threat of nuclear war is at the highest level it has been since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. However, there is a crucial difference: in 1962, most of us were alert to the threat and its existential nature.
Peace & DisarmamentReviving the Concept of Trusteeship as a Stepping-Stone to Peace in the Middle East
We should urge the UN General Assembly to create an ad hoc Trusteeship Council that would act as a time-limited cocoon (say of 5 years) around Gaza, allowing it to heal at all levels until it is able to take up its role as a mature member of the international community of nations.
Global CooperationThe Time Has Come To Build A Viable Global System Of Collective Security
One of the inescapable features of human existence is that lessons we fail to learn repeat themselves over and over, usually with increasing ferocity until the lesson is learned.