Events around Australia and around the world for World Citizens
(updated October 2019)
Global
World Federalist Movement Congress, June 3-7, 2020 Brussels
This is the gathering of the worldwide movement, now taking place every two years.
Supranational Democracy Dialogue, April 16-17, 2020, Brindisi
The topics will be democratic governance and cemocratic policies beyond the state.
Symposium 'Beyond the Nation State', October 28-30, 2019, Boston University
Global Week of Action for a World Parliament, October 19-27, 2019
A program of events around the world
The New Shape Forum, May 27-30, 2018, Stockholm Sweden
https://globalchallenges.org/en/our-work/new-shape-forum
This event is hosted by the Global Challenges Foundation. The New Shape Forum will be a starting point of our mission to reshape global cooperation in order to better tackle global catastrophic risks based on the proposals put forward in the New Shape Prize
World Conference on Global Institutions in 2020
Proposed by the UN Commission on Global Security, Justice and Governance.
The Commission’s co-chairs: former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Nigerian Foreign Minister Ibrahim Gambari in The Hague
The Commission proposes that Civil Society organizations and UN member-nations collaborate to organize a World Conference on Global Institutions in 2020, the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations, to provide a target date to enact the urgent global governance reforms necessary for a secure and just future. We must do what we can to push forward this initiative.
The Commission is strongly influenced by world federalists. One of the Commissioners is in fact Lloyd Axworthy, a former Foreign Minister of Canada, who is also President of the World Federalist Movement.
Local
1-day meeting on "Expanding Worldviews: Astrobiology, Big History, and the Socio-Political Benefits of the Cosmic Perspective" (ANU, 19 July, 2018)
To be organized by Ian Crawford, a contributor to the World Government Research Network.
9th International Conference on Human Rights Education (Sydney, November 2018)
Daryl is thinking of trying to arrange for a session on human rights and global governance at this meeting. Luis Cabrera would be an obvious candidate as a speaker here.
Model Global Parliament in the NSW Legislative Assembly chamber
