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Research On World Citizens

Communitarianism vs. World Citizen/cosmopolitanism

"At the close of a 75,000-year major cycle, a New World is about to be born. Mankind and Earth have now arrived at a critical juncture in their evolutionary journey. The planet has consequently become a busy nucleus of intercosmic activity. Our world is now in its final stage of preparation leading up to the imminent Great Transition, a monumental event discussed at length in the new book, Servers of the Divine Plan: The Destiny of Ages is Nigh." - Servers of the Divine Plan

"The tremendous growth in the commitment to, and practice of, democracy in domestic settings juxtaposed against globalization's large-scale transfer of political decision-making to international institutions has made the almost complete lack of democracy at the international level the most glaring anomaly of the global system today." — Andrew Strauss

"The United Nations is an assembly for the governments of the world's nations. Business, likewise, has an incredible assortment of institutions such as the Chamber of Commerce and events such as the World Economics Forum that cultivate and propagate its prerogatives. Civil society is obligated to create institutions that are strong enough to challenge other organizations — governments, businesses, criminal groups, extremists — and not strictly on their terms."
Solution: "Launch a non-centralized, heterogeneous, loosely-linked network of people, online and offline resources, institutions, deliberative and other collaborative settings. Develop articles, scholarly papers, opinion papers, manifestos, research findings, and anything else that is relevant to this effort. Develop concepts, design principles, and experiments that lay the groundwork for a World Citizen Parliament."
"In many places attempts are being made to trivialize citizenship and reconstitute citizens as (everyday) consumers and (sporadic) voters. Real power is in many ways being transferred to large corporations and other unelected organizations such as the World Trade Organization. Realizing the growing and critical importance of citizens and civic society in addressing humankind's common problems, we the undersigned propose the initiation of a "Grand Challenge" whose ultimate objective is the development of a World Citizen Parliament." - http://publicsphereproject.org/drupal/node/239

"The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas."

"Klaus Schwab, last year’s honoree and founder of the World Economic Forum, returned to New York to present a Global Citizen Award to Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund." The mission of the World Economic Forum is expressed in its motto: "committed to improving the state of the world". - Second Annual Atlantic Council Global Citizen Awards Dinner

"The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship provides unparalleled platforms at the regional and global level to highlight and advance leading models of sustainable social innovation. It identifies a select community of social entrepreneurs and engages it in shaping global, regional and industry agendas that improve the state of the world in close collaboration with the other stakeholders of the World Economic Forum."

"The cross-cutting efforts of all our undertakings will continue to draw on all aspects of our capabilities, inspiring us to improve the state of the world with an even deeper sense of mission. Our people remain our strongest asset - embracing the notion of “One Forum, One Culture, One Mission” - and I am passionate about leading an organization that has attracted so much talent following our motto of “entrepreneurship in the global public interest”. Klaus Schwab: Vision 2020 "

Liberating voices : a pattern language for communication revolution / Douglas Schuler
The Pattern Language
Index of Patterns (pdf)
Acknowledgments (pdf)

"The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government..." - Article 21(3), Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

World citizen has a variety of similar meanings, often referring to a person who disapproves of traditional geopolitical divisions derived from national citizenship. - Wikipedia

Mormon's are "Good Citizens of the Earth".
Jehovah's Witnesses are World Citizens: "Witnesses strive to be model world citizens wherever they live."
Among Seventh Day Adventist Objectives: "Provide students with information about the world that is timely, relevant, and classroom appropriate in regard to the major issues the world’s citizens are currently facing:"

What is a Global Citizen? Are You One?
The GlobalCitizen Campaign: "Dedicated to ending xenophobia by spreading the message of UBUNTU and educating youth around the world about the importance of living with a global citizen mentality."
YoungGlobalCitizen.com "tries to create a dialogue about the ideas of culturally sustaining development, global citizenship, travel, and identity."
"We designed The Global Citizen Resource Center exclusively for global-oriented individuals and expats, like you, who want to travel, live, work and study abroad as well as live fulfilling and meaningful lives as global citizens."
"This is the official Global Citizen website"
The Global Citizen is a blog by NYU Center for Global Affairs (CGA)
What is a Global Citizen? "A Global Citizen is one who strives to understand the world at large from various cultural perspectives."
"A Global Citizen Year is an immersive international experience between high school and college that unlocks a lifetime of potential."
Global Citizen Year Creates Social Enterprise Leaders
ProjectExplorer wants to know what it means to you to be a "Good Global Citizen."
Become A Global Citizen "It is our goal to establish a Global Community Citizen Center in every larger city around the world that will inform, educate and support people at all ages to help them to envision the prospects of an emerging global society and to participate in meaningful ways as a global citizen."
New Global Citizens "Mobilizing A Generation"
Global Citizen Experiment
Citizens for Global Solutions "We are a membership organization working to build political will in the United States to achieve our vision. We do this by educating Americans about our global interdependence, communicating global concerns to public officials, and developing proposals to create, reform, and strengthen international institutions such as the United Nations."
Clinton Global Initiative "The Clinton Global Citizen Awards™ were established in 2007 to recognize extraordinary individuals who have demonstrated visionary leadership in solving pressing global challenges."
International GLOBAL CITIZEN’S AWARD "The International Global Citizen’s Award is a new programme which encourages young people to become better global citizens"
Independent Global Citizen "Passionate about Africans helping Africans pursuing sustainable development and self-determination."
GLOBAL CITIZEN MAGAZINE "Now available at exclusive locations around the globe
U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy "The success of the November 2010 U.S. Summit for Global Citizen Diplomacy provided a launch pad for new ideas, partnerships, challenges and opportunities in preparation for the ten-year Initiative for Global Citizen Diplomacy. ... support of a goal to double the number of U.S. citizen diplomats by 2020."
Global Citizen Center "The central goal in developing a mixed-use building at 1950 Mission Street in San Francisco, is to create a new kind of educational institution that houses teachers in affordable green housing, and also creates public space that educates and mobilizes the public around sustainability."
The Global Citizen Project "In 2010, food, travel and lifestyle journalist Charyn Pfeuffer swapped her BlackBerry for a backpack. She volunteered more than 900 hours with 12 community projects in 12 countries over 12 months. Now, this Seattleite wants to continue to give back,..."
"Global Citizen Coaching is an eye-opening, “Aha” producing and incredibly empowering process leading to personal and professional fulfillment – at home and abroad!"
"Global Citizen Journey joins hearts and hands across continents and boundaries. We are a nonprofit organization with a vision of deep, ongoing connections that build understanding and bridge cultural differences with bonds of peace."
"Global Citizen is a worldwide platform with more than 75 employees from more than 25 countries. The platform was founded in 2008, but the idea behind Global Citizen dates back to 2000. Global Citizen focuses on more than 2.000 topics relating to globalisation and sustainability."
Global Citizens Network "The peoples of the world are one people, enriched by individual differences, united by the common bond of humanity. The diversity of the Global Community is its greatest strength; understanding and respect are its greatest gifts. "
Global Citizen Corps "Our generation is among the most motivated, smart and passionate generations there has ever been. For the first time, we have a plan of action and the tools that will allow us to join forces to create a better world!"
Global Citizen: Think Globally, Act Locally "Programs run by Global Citizen include the Greater Philadelphia Martin Luther King Day of Service, the largest King Day event in the nation and MLK365, which promotes year-round volunteer service and civic engagement."

Garry Davis' CyberWorld
http://www.garrydavis.org/index.html
1:- 6.25.1948 - Oath of Renunciation 
2:- 6.25.1948 - Statement of Renunciation 
3:- 9.11.1948 - Statement on "leaving" France for U.N. "international" territory" 
4:-11.22.1948 - Oran Declaration (UN GA Speech) 
5:- 12. 9. 1948 - Speech at the Velodrome d’Hiver 
6:- 4.3.1949 - Statement on North Atlantic Pact - NATO 
7:- 7.24.1949 - My reasons for leaving France 
8:- 5.1. 1953 -Petition to Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth 
9:- 9.4.1953 - The Ellsworth Declaration (excerpt) 
10:- 8.20.1957 - World Authorization Order No. 1
11:- 6.8.89 - World Law Proclamation for Mundialized Communities 

World Government of World Citizens - http://www.worldservice.org/
World Service Authority FAQ - http://www.worldservice.org/wcwfaq.html
Memorandum on World Government - file:///E:/World-Servers/World%20Government/Memorandum-on-World-Government-Preamble.html
The Ellsworth Declaration - file:///E:/World-Servers/World%20Government/THE-ELLSWORTH-DECLARATION.html
World Government House - http://www.worldgovernmenthouse.com/
The Publishing Agency of the World Government of World Citizens and the World Government Institute, South Burlington, VT 05407, USA
http://www.worldgovernmenthouse.com/Quotes.php

World Citizen News - http://www.worldcitnews.org/
World Government Institute - http://www.worldgovinst.org/

The Registry of World Citizens is the only institution in the world that has the right to deliver world citizen identity cards through the Registry Centers it has approved ; it is a prefiguration of a world identity service.
The REGISTRY of WORLD CITIZENS (W.C.R.) founded en 1949, has its head office at 66, Boulevard Vincent Auriol, 75013 PARIS, France. It supervises the issuing of World Citizen cards for all countries.
MUNDIALIZATION CHARTER
We the inhabitants of... declare through this charter that our town herby becomes world territory.

Our action means that :

  1. We declare that our security and welfare are linked to the security and welfare of all towns and districts of the world ;
  2. We wish to work in peace with all towns and districts of the world, to co-operate with them so that to establish a world rule of law which will assure our common protection under the aegis of a democratically elected and controlled world federal authority;
  3. We call on all towns, districts and organizations of all kinds to vote for election of delegates to the Peoples' Congress, first assembly representative of their will on a world level;
  4. We demand World Institutions to serve the World People and to solve the problems of security and environment and to satisfy the needs common to all humans;
  5. We request that funds be made available from the districts budgets to make effective our common decisions;
  6. We request of our own government that funds be made available from the military budget to be used for the financing of Peoples' Congress;
  7. We call on all towns and all districts of the earth to join us in this charter of solidarity;
  8. Without renouncing anything of our attachment, our duties and our rights toward our own region and toward our nation as far as they can compass with a wolrd order, we declare symbolically that our territory is world territory and as such, that it is joined to the community of our whole world.
The mundialization movement was born in Hiroshima, Japan in 1945. The surviving citizens of this city devastated by the world’s first atomic bomb signified their resolve to work for a world federation which would make forever impossible a repetition of the tragedy which their city had undergone. - The Hamilton Mundialization Committee

Mundialization is one of the oldest of municipal peace activities. The word is derived from the Latin word “mundus” meaning “world”. It is an act whereby City Council declares its city to be a “world city”, interdependent with other communities worldwide. It involves the linking or twinning of cities around the world, in the belief that future peace and progress are dependent on co-operation, goodwill and understanding. ...On May 8, 1968, the City of Hamilton, by a resolution of Council, and witnessed by the Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations, was declared a World (mundialized) City. - The Hamilton Mundialization Committee, About

PROCLAMATION OF WORLD LAW FOR MUNDIALIZED COMMUNITIES

World Citizen Garry Davis, has been the world's preeminent thinker on global governance issues since 1947, but whose vision I (Norman G. Kurland) share that sovereignty must begin with each human person, not the State. Garry follows in the tradition of the political philosophy of Socrates, America's founders, Tom Paine, John Locke, Einstein, Bucky Fuller, Louis Kelso and all the great humanists of civilization.

Norman G. Kurland, a lawyer-economist, is president of the Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ), a non-profit, ecumenical research and educational organization based in Arlington, Virginia. He served in 1985 as deputy chairman of President Reagan's Task Force on Project Economic Justice, which recommended policy reforms to encourage economic democratization in Central America and the Caribbean. An ESOP pioneer, he invented the Employee Shareholders Association, an advance over the US ESOP, at the Alexandria Tire Company of Egypt. He authored "A New Look at Prices and Money: A Kelsonian Binary Model for Achieving Rapid Growth Without Inflation," The Journal of Socio-Economics, 2001 and co-authored Capital Homesteading for Every Citizen, 2004. Prior to joining Louis Kelso to found the Institute for the Study of Economic Systems in 1968 and later to lobby the first laws to empower workers as worker-owners, Kurland was planning director of the Citizens Crusade Against Poverty, a broad-based coalition headed by labor statesman Walter Reuther. As a government lawyer, he worked in Mississippi’s "one-person, one-vote" movement in 1962-64 and later in structuring empowerment policy for President Johnson’s "War on Poverty." - http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/gceg/Kurland.htm

PREAMBLE OF THE CONSTITUTION FOR WORLD GOVERNMENT OF WORLD CITIZENS

Based on our faith that all sovereignty, under the highest sovereignty of the Ultimate Source of all Creation and all absolute values such as Truth, Love, Beauty and Justice, begins with the individual human being, and that every man, woman and child is endowed with the inalienable right to life, liberty and property;

And that inherent in these rights is the power of the people:

To associate freely with others to create a livable homeland for persons of all faiths and beliefs;

To foster strong families as the bedrock of society;

To foster advances in the spiritual lives, moral development and the realization of the fullest creative potential of all the people;

To build a responsible society based on peace through justice;

To promote economic justice and material well-being by enforcing contracts, protecting property, and expanding to all persons and families equal opportunity to participate both as workers and as owners in the creation of wealth, sharing of profits, and in the control over technology and productive enterprises;

To encourage a freely competitive marketplace for determining just prices, just wages and just profits;

To institute a just monetary system for creating no-interest money for expanding ownership of productive property, a fair tax system that encourages productive activity, and inheritance laws that discourage private monopolies of power, privilege and wealth;

To create a government to advance and secure these rights;

And to restrain government from ownership of natural resources or in the means of production where such property could be owned broadly by the people, or from abusing its otherwise legitimate monopoly of coercive powers in violation of fundamental human rights;

We the People of the Global Community, do hereby establish this Constitution as the Supreme Law of World Goverment.
JUSTICE-BASED MANAGEMENT AND THE JUST THIRD WAY
Ecology: the branch of biology concerned with the various relations of animals and plants to one another and to their surrounding environment.

Open Source Ecology: " The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts."

Syntegration facilitates planning, decision making and information sharing in a non-hierarchical, non-threatening context, and supports collaborative development and implementation of strategies and plans. "It works like a time compression-machine - maximum information shared in minimal time" - http://www.syntegration.com/

Stafford Beer, President, World Association of General Systems and Cybernetics
In 1986 Stafford Beer was appointed Coordinator of the World Cybernetic Commission of the World Government of World Citizens
Stafford Beer was born in London in 1926.

"The urgent challenges of a globalized and interdependent world demand a new vision of world citizenship that is not confined to national boundaries, but encompasses moral and ethical responsibilities to all humanity." - Educating World Citizens for the 21st Century

Global Learning,Changing the way we learn
World Learning, Bridging Cultures, Transforming Lives
Peace From Harmony: World Citizen's Notes, Rene Wadlow: "Only the bridge of Beauty will be strong enough for crossing from the bank of Darkness to the side of Light" - Nicholas Roerich

Diamond Light: Newsletter of the Aquarian Age Community, 2010 No. 1, The Bridge of Beauty and Understanding, René Wadlow

WORLD CITIZEN FOUNDATION: "Politics is like the "Operating System" of society and to remain free and prosperous, it is to our advantage (in addition to being our civic duty) to constantly improve democracy as the least worst of all possible political "Operating Systems"."
Full text of "World citizen oral history transcript, 1986-88 : Norman Cousins"

The top level-a "World Court of Human Rights" for which the statute has been already written-will be evolving with public, NGOs and even certain national government support. - WORLD CITIZEN UPDATE , November 3, 1997

2048 Project A new functional human rights paradigm focusing on enabling rights, over-arching rights and end rights, to replace the artificial first/second/third generation paradigm. Drafting a statute for a World Court of Human Rights and taking a look at articles that can be revised or articles that are missing within the Declaration.

The Rainbow Bridge is a book and movement created to help unify humanity and to create a bridge to a positive and peaceful future in the 21st century. We walk across this bridge to the future by using universal principles found within the world’s major religions. These universal principles are our common ground.

What is The Rainbow Bridge?
The Rainbow Bridge is an exciting global project whose goal is to facilitate the emergence of a global wisdom-based culture of peace. The Rainbow Bridge is a bridge to our common future. The primary intention is to bring together large numbers of people worldwide, to resolve our mutual challenges through peaceful means, conversation, collaboration, dialogue and diplomacy.

The Great Shift: There are a stunning number of additional people and organizations who are all doing powerful work in their communities and in the world to help bring about “The Great Shift of the Ages”, including but definitely not limited to the organizations listed elsewhere in the book and the following:
http://www.thefreemanonline.org/
A Reviewers Notebook: World Citizen

The world citizen was an eighteenth-century phenomenon. A child of the French Enlightenment, the World Citizen tended to put liberty ahead of country. Sometimes the World Citizen was bemused by those who rated equality ahead of liberty. This led many into Jacobin snares, with the guillotine as their reward if they strayed from the gospel proclaimed by Robespierre or some other tyrant of the moment. But the more canny among the World Citizens came to see with Edmund Burke that liberty, in the abstract, could be a delusion. Burke, an anti- ideologue, was satisfied with English liberties in the plural, as defined by the tradition going back to Magna Carta.

Philip Mazzei, an Italian from Tuscany, was a Burkean, ...
Mazzei Meets Franklin
World Citizen, Mazzei
WORLD GOVERNMENT, READY OR NOT! is the first how-to-do-it and how-it-is-being done book on the making of world peace through government of, by, and for the citizens of the world recounted in masterful detail by a veteran of over 50 years experience in the "field." WWII bomber pilot Garry Davis, in 1948 took Emery Reves (Anatomy of Peace) at his word first that "...the ideal of the nation-state is bankrupt.." and second that "There is no first step to world government. World Government is the first step." The eclectic Renaissance Man, stateless World Citizen Davis "lives" the future today treating philosophy, law, economics, travel, space, history and more with equal ease and insight. Moreover, as a world human rights activist, he has seen the inside of over 30 national prisons. Author E. B. White wrote that "Davis marches to the beat of the Universe, while we all march to a broken drum." "The birth pangs of the new world order are already upon us," Davis writes in the Prologue, "and as necessity knows no law but its own, we are too busy attending to that long-heralded and momentous birth to still the shrill cries of infidelity." WORLD GOVERNMENT, READY OR NOT! is a book for the 21st century and beyond.
The World Federalist Movement - Institute for Global Policy (WFM-IGP) is an international citizens movement working for justice, peace, and sustainable prosperity. We call for the end of the use of force, through a world governed by law, based on strengthened and democratized world institutions. World federalists support the creation of democratic global structures accountable to the citizens of the world and call for the division of international authority among separate agencies.

Currently the International Secretariat oversees six programs: Federalism and Constitutional Democracy; Promoting Rule of Law, Defending Human Rights; Creating Lasting Peace, Preventing Conflicts, Protecting Civilians; International Democracy; Global Economic Governance; and Global Environmental Governance. Key projects include: the Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC) and Responsibility to Protect – Engaging Civil Society (R2P-CS, and ReformtheUN.org (RUN).

The Roy and Lila Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation fosters excellence in government around the world in order to generate and strengthen democracy. Through its research, publications, curriculum support, global network, and awards program, the Ash Institute explores critical issues in democratic practice and effective governance. By engaging a broad, global community in which knowledge is shared, by generating and supporting research and curriculum materials, and by highlighting exemplary government programs, the Institute serves as a catalyst for successfully addressing many of the world's most pressing concerns and, in turn, improving the lives of its citizens. - http://ash.harvard.edu/

To enhance understanding and capabilities for cooperation between the United States and the countries of Eurasia and the Baltic States by developing a network of leaders in the region who have gained significant, firsthand exposure to America's democratic, accountable government and its free-market system. - http://www.openworld.gov/
Amnesty International's vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards.

In pursuit of this vision, AI's mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights.

AI is independent of any government, political ideology, economic interest or religion. It does not support or oppose any government or political system, nor does it support or oppose the views of the victims whose rights it seeks to protect. It is concerned solely with the impartial protection of human rights.

AI has a varied network of members and supporters around the world. At the latest count, there were more than 1.8 million members, supporters and subscribers in over 150 countries and territories in every region of the world. Although they come from many different backgrounds and have widely different political and religious beliefs, they are united by a determination to work for a world where everyone enjoys human rights.

AI is a democratic, self-governing movement. Major policy decisions are taken by an International Council made up of representatives from all national sections.

AI's national sections and local volunteer groups are primarily responsible for funding the movement. No funds are sought or accepted from governments for AI's work investigating and campaigning against human rights violations.

YEAR OF REBELLION: 2011 was a year without precedent for the peoples of the Middle East and North Africa region. - http://www.aiusa.org/
National Center for Science Education (NCSE) is a non-profit organization based in Oakland, California affiliated with the American Association for the Advancement of Science. It is the United States' leading anti-creationist organization,... devoted to defending the teaching of evolution in public schools, and keeping creationism out.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science, (AAAS), is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the world by serving as an educator, leader, spokesperson and professional association. ... Founded in 1848, AAAS serves some 262 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. ...AAAS is a global organization, with offices in Washington, D.C. and Cambridge, U.K., and award-winning news correspondents reporting from an array of countries. The U.S. headquarters facility, designed by renowned architect Henry N. Cobb of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, was dedicated in September 1997 as the William T. Golden Center for Science and Engineering,- http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a private, nonprofit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world. Each year, with funding from the US Congress, NED supports more than 1,000 projects of non-governmental groups abroad who are working for democratic goals in more than 90 countries.

"How much longer will the Russian government permit the US National Endowment for Democracy, a CIA front, to interfere in its elections by financing opposition parties..." - Paul Craig Roberts

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly 64/134. Proclamation of 2010 as the International Year of Youth:
Dialogue and Mutual Understanding - http://social.un.org/youthyear/

The UN General Assembly has proclaimed 2010 the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures and has designated UNESCO to play a leading role in the celebration of the Year - capitalizing on the Organization’s invaluable experience of over 60 years to advance “the mutual knowledge and understanding of peoples”. - http://www.un.org/en/events/iyrc2010/

The 63rd General Assembly of the United Nations has adopted a resolution proclaiming 2011 as International Year of Chemistry, placing UNESCO and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) at the helm of the event.  - http://www.iupac.org/web/nt/2008-12-30_IYC

Closing Ceremony of the International Year of Chemistry: One of the central activities of the IYC is the Global experiment ‘Water: A Chemical Solution’... One of the key events of the day is the Young Leaders Forum, a group of young business students and scientists debating on the theme 'The world in 2050: our expectations from the life sciences, chemistry, industry and governments to build a better world by 2050'. - http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/the_international_year_of_chemistry_comes_to_a_close/

The United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 64/136 proclaiming the year 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives (IYC). The theme of the International Year of Cooperatives is “Cooperative Enterprises Build a Better World.” - http://www.ncba.coop/2012/

The International Year of Cooperatives is intended to raise public awareness of the invaluable contributions of cooperative enterprises to poverty reduction, employment generation and social integration. - http://social.un.org/coopsyear/

Welcome to the official website of ICA for the United Nations International Year of Co-operatives. Established in 1895, The International Co-operative Alliance is the Apex organisation for co-operatives worldwide.

"We stand on the threshold of a new world order that may be defined either by an increasing polarisation that fuels a spiral of escalating conflict and violence, or by growing global cooperation that calls the human race to work across national, ethnic and religious boundaries to serve a larger global good." - Bishop Swing, United Religious Initiative (URI)

SOME KEYWORDS:

interdependent world
souvereignty of the people
new world order
democracy
World Citizen
world citizenship
World Service
World Government
Human Rights
democratized world institutions
global community
Syntegration
General Systems
Cybernetics


Key Organizations from The Rainbow Bridge: The Great Shift

Communitarianism In the New World:

"The modern use of the term [Communitarianism] is a redefinition of the original sense [communalist society]. The term is primarily used in two senses:

  • Philosophical communitarianism considers classical liberalism to be ontologically and epistemologically incoherent, and opposes it on those grounds. Unlike classical liberalism, which construes communities as originating from the voluntary acts of pre-community individuals, it emphasizes the role of the community in defining and shaping individuals. Communitarians believe that the value of community is not sufficiently recognized in liberal theories of justice.
  • Ideological communitarianism is characterized as a radical centrist ideology that is sometimes marked by leftism on economic issues and moralism or conservatism on social issues. This usage was coined recently. When the term is capitalized, it usually refers to the Responsive Communitarian movement of Amitai Etzioni and other philosophers.
" - Communitarianism Terminology

"The liberal-communitarian debate is often considered valuable for generating a new set of philosophical problems, rather than a profound and illuminating clash of perspectives." - Contemporary political philosophy

"Multiculturalism is not the old concept of culture multiplied by the number of groups that exist, but a new, and internally plural praxis of culture applied to o­neself and to other" (Baumann 1999:vii). ... community is not o­nly the storehouse of a naturalized identity, it also has a moral dimension which calls for what Habermas calls a "post conventional" identity formation o­n the part of the participants (Habermas 1990).  In such an identity formation, identity needs cannot be easily satisfied by appeals to communitarian frameworks;..." - http://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=26

"Real-world social experiments that seek to achieve a communitarian ideal generally lead either to disintegration or repressive rule." - http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/utopia-versus-eutopia/

"The communitarian movement was at its most popular in the mid-to-late nineties, although it has not gone away; it continues to repackage itself and appears like clockwork whenever classical liberalism comes up." - http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/the-individual-and-the-community-2/

"All in all, the point of the communitarian movement is not to remind us to be morally responsible to other people—to respect them, cooperate with them, love them when that is warranted, and so forth. ... In fact it means something different. We are being urged to support the enactment of laws that force people to serve their communities—to participate in programs that some people have designated as community purposes or in the public interest." - http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/the-individual-and-the-community/

"Like Italian fascism, Nazism was a profoundly communitarian movement." - A Sense of Community Contradicts the Logic of the Market?

Google: about 319,000 for liberty "World Citizen".
Google: about 5,730 for communitarian "World Citizen".
Google: about 987,000 for community "World Citizen". "A World Citizen accepts the dynamic fact that the planetary human community is interdependent and whole, that humankind is essentially one." - http://www.worldservice.org/reg.html
Google: about 152,000 for cosmopolitan "World Citizen".

In the Google search, for "community World Citizen", the word community is generally used in the context of groups with a common interest. Human community, education community, local community, our community, community of developers, etc. and often as [in][of][for][by] "the community".

In the Google search, for 'communitarian World Citizen', the word communitarian is generally juxtaposed against 'world citizen' illustrating the incongruguities between the two concepts. "Scholars have used this idea of "world citizen" (kosmopolites), strongly related to contempory human rights issues, as a ground for cosmopolitanism. An identy as kosmopolites obviously transends a specific national boundary, and thereby moves beyond a community-bounded identity. Commuitarianism regards 'community' as 'a significant source of ethical value,' whereas cosmopolitanism sees 'individuals as the origin of moral worth.'" (Planetary Loves: Spivak, Postcoloniality, and Theology By Stephen D. Moore)

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