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    • Inequality and Economic Justice
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    • Democracy
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    • Course on Global Democracy
    • Talks and Lectures
    • Ventotene Seminar
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    • World Parliament
    • Real Democracy
    • ICC
    • 1 For 7 Billion
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Course on Global Democracy and Justice

10 weekly meetings on Sundays 19.00 – 21.30 in Tel Aviv

For the first time in the history of humanity we are now facing problems that affect us all at a global scale. Whether it is climate change or inequality, migration or terrorism, pandemics or poverty, these are all global challenges that require global solutions. And yet no-one is thinking globally and no-one is responsible for tackling these problems. Our political institutions are organized at the level of the state and encourage politicians to think, at best, only about what is good for their country. The result is anarchy at the global level and the rule of force by the richer and more powerful countries.

In this course we look at alternative visions of the global political arena. How could global politics be organized so that politicians would be encouraged to think what would be best for humanity? How could a truly democratic world system be developed, where everyone is represented, whether they were born in America or Israel or Ethiopia or Haiti? Could a global environmental regulatory body finally tackle climate change? Could there be such a thing as a global welfare state, and if so, could it alleviate poverty better than the current international development industry? Is this a utopian fantasy, a dystopia, or a practical vision for a just future? In the course participants will grapple with these issues, hear what other activists and thinkers have to say, and be supported to develop their own vision of a just and democratic global society.

The course will consist of lectures, group exercises and discussions, skype sessions with global democracy activists overseas, skills training, and project work. Participants who complete the course and the project will receive a Course Certificate from One World.

The course topics will include:

  • What is global democracy and why do we need it?
  • Global causes of inequality
  • Global politics and economic justice 
  • Global governance and climate change 
  • World federalism and different models of supra-national government 
  • The global visions of Einstein and Gandhi  
  • Ideas and campaigns of the World Federalist Movement. 
  • Potentials of an Israel-Palestine federation (Jerusalem course only)

Please note: the language of the course is English.

Recommended Reading:

  • History of the World Federalist Movement
  • Supporting quotes by Einstein, Gandhi and other thinkers
  • Appeal for the establishment of a parliamentary body at the UN 

Feedback from previous participants:

  • “the course really opened my eyes…”  – Michal, Tel Aviv
  • “enlightening, especially about global injustice…” Alon, Jerusalem
  • “the course leaders were very passionate – it made the sessions very stimulating…” Daniel, Netanya
  • “the guest speakers were amazing! It was a privilege to discuss politics with them!”  Liat, Ramat-Gan

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  • "If I can get freedom for India now [...] empire idea dissolves and world-state takes its place, in which all the states of the world are free and equal, no State has its military, there may be a world police to keep order in the absence of universal belief in non-violence."

    Mahatma Gandhi, 1942
    Mahatma Gandhi, 1942
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  • “With all my heart I believe that the world’s present system of sovereign nations can only lead to barbarism, war, and inhumanity. Mankind’s desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government.”

    Albert Einstein, 1945
    Albert Einstein, 1945
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  • "I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world."

    Socrates, ~400 BC
    Socrates, ~400 BC
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  • "A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient means of social justice to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history."

    H. G. Wells, 1920
    H. G. Wells, 1920
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  • “Our task is not to overthrow globalisation, but to capture it, and to use it as a vehicle for humanity’s first global democratic revolution.”

    George Monbiot, 2003
    George Monbiot, 2003
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  • "Faced with the globalization of economy and finance, the mounting imbalance in the distribution of wealth, and asymmetric threats to international security, the answer that is provided by the cooperation of nation-states is often no longer enough. There's an increased urgency that political institutions and instruments of participation and democracy also go through a process of globalization. That's why I support the establishment of a UN Parliamentary Assembly."

    Federica Mogherini, 2013
    Federica Mogherini, 2013
    - Quotes
  • "Today the universal common good poses problems of worldwide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of a public authority [...] which is in a position to operate in an effective manner on a world-wide basis. The moral order itself, therefore, demands that such a form of public authority be established."

    Pope John XXIII, 1963
    Pope John XXIII, 1963
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  • "I have no doubt in my mind that the World Government must and will come, for there is no other remedy for the world's sickness. It can be an extension of the federal principle, a growth of the idea underlying the United Nations, giving each national unit freedom to fashion its destiny according to its genius, but subject always to the basic covenant of the world Government."

    Jawaharlal Nehru, 1948
    Jawaharlal Nehru, 1948
    First Prime Minister of India - Quotes
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