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  • World Federalism
    • What is World Federalism?
    • Inequality and Economic Justice
    • Environment
    • War and Conflict
    • Democracy
    • The Way Forward
  • Activities
    • Course on Global Democracy
    • Talks and Lectures
    • Ventotene Seminar
    • World Citizenship
    • World Parliament
    • Real Democracy
    • ICC
    • 1 For 7 Billion
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    • Podcast
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Ventotene Seminar

‘Ventotene Seminar is organised by the Spinelli Institute for Federalist Studies in collaboration with the World Federalist Movement and takes place is the island of Ventotene, Italy, the last week of August each year. During the seminar dozens of young European and World Federalists gather to discuss, debate and learn with leader experts on federalist ideas regarding Europe and the world. The seminar is a unique and intensive experience that allows participants to deepen their understanding of how federalist principles can help build a better world.

 Every year One World holds an annual competition to select one or two participants to attend the Ventotene Seminar. Successful applicants receive a scholarship covering accommodation, food and tuition costs in Ventotene plus a return flight to Rome. If you are interested in participating in the Ventotene seminar, please contact us or sign up to our mailing list.

Seminar Program 2018

Seminar Program 2019

Who was Altiero Spinelli?

Altiero Spinelli was an Italian political dissident who was banished to the island of Ventotene by Mussolini’s fascist regime during the Second World War. Spinelli spent much of his time on Ventotene thinking about how to keep the peace in Europe after the end of the war, and wrote the Ventotene Manifesto, calling for the construction of a united, federal Europe. At the end of the war he established the Federalist Movement in Italy.

Later in his life Spinelli was a member of the European Commission and then the European Parliament. Throughout his life he worked tirelessly for a more federal Europe. He died in 1986 and the main building of the European Parliament in Brussels is named after him.

European Parliament - Altiero Spinelli Building
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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
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  • "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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