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People's Global Authority - Reference
Participedia is a tool for democrats. It aims to create and gather public knowledge to deepen democracy. Based on a wiki platform, its main content will be user-generated articles which will describe and assess participatory governance throughout the world. (Full Article)
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The World-Wide Web as a Super-Brain: From Metaphor to Model |
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by Francis Heylighen and Johan Bollen -- It is a recurrent idea that the whole of humanity, the system formed by all people together with their channels of exchange, can be viewed as a single organism: the `super-being'. After the advent in the 19th century of one-to-one media, like telegraph and telephone, and in the first half of this century of one-to-many media, like radio and TV, the last decade in particular has been characterized by the explosive development of many-to-many communication networks. (Full Article) |
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Global Politics and Institutions - A "Utopistic" View |
by Sudhir Chella Rajan -- Oct. 13, 2007 -- This paper outlines a different possible world in the future that conjoins the desires of progressive social movements everywhere and gestures thus towards a hopeful vision of new forms of collective action. (Full Article)
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Manifesto on Global Economic Transitions (Must Read) |
International Forum on Globalization -- Sept. 2007 -- The planet’s ecological, social and economic systems are on the verge of catastrophic change, for which few societies are prepared. Efforts by governments to respond to the impending emergency are thus far grossly inadequate. Efforts by corporations and industries to reform their behaviors remain largely enclosed by systemic limits that require continued growth and profit above all other standards of performance. (Full Report)
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Dawn of the Cosmopolitan: The Hope of a Global Citizens Movement |
by Orion Kriegman -- 2006 -- From the point of view of any single individual, the world and its future appear to be constructed by vast social forces, elite power networks, and continent-spanning institutions with their own internal logics. Many people would like to help address the intimidating challenges of our times, yet they feel powerless and this diminishes their potential agency for change. (Full Article)
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Towards a World Parliament |
by Rasmus Tenbergen -- July, 2006 -- This paper offers a detailed and systematic general analysis of the potential creation of a World Parliament, which includes an overview of the different possible models and an investigation of their advantages and disadvantages. (Full Article)
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One World Democracy (Must Read) |
by Jerry Tetalman and Byron Belitsos -- 2005 -- This book is an introduction to the greatest political transformation in history--the democratic revolution to create enforceable global law. This epochal change in human affairs will put an end, once and for all, to the war system that is the greatest scourge facing humankind. In this revolution, ordinary people will take control of this planet from those who foment war and profit from war, and who permit environmental destruction. (Full Book)
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The Age of Consent - A Manifesto for a New World Order (Must Read) |
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by George Monbiot -- June 1, 2004 -- All the issues we care about most – climate change, international debt, nuclear proliferation, war, the balance of trade between nations – can be resolved only at the global or the international level. This lecture highlights the ideas in his book "The Age of Consent". (Full Article) |
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Taking Democracy Global: Assessing the Benefits and Challenges of a Global Parliamentary Assembly |
by Andrew Strauss -- July, 2005 -- Taking Democracy Global looks into why a world parliament would lead to a more peaceful global political order and how it can be created given present day political realities. It offers a creative, long-term solution to the lack of democratic structures and processes at the global level that have come about as a result of globalisation. (Full Article)
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A Better Globalization: Legitimacy, Governance, and Reform |
by Kermal Dervis -- 2005 -- The huge costs of armed conflict, the great challenge of state failure, and the slow pace of international actions to address world poverty all point to weaknesses in the global institutional framework and the need for much more effective international cooperation. (Full Book)
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Bridging the Globalization Gap: Toward Global Parliament |
In domestic politics, interest-group pluralism flourishes within a parliamentary system of representation. In global politics, interest-group pluralism is growing, but no unifying parliament represents the public interest. Any serious attempt to challenge the democratic deficit must therefore consider creating some type of popularly elected global body. The only question is what form this participation will take. (Full Article)
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by Francis Heylighen -- 2000 -- The following list of "Frequently Asked Questions" is largely inspired by the discussions on the global brain mailing list. Although I have tried to as accurately as possible render the ideas of other global brain researchers, this FAQ is obviously biased by my own understanding of the issue. (Full Article) |
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A Global Parliament - Principles of World Federation |
by Christopher Hamer -- 1998 -- What we need now is a properly constituted ‘village council’, to deal with the global problems that confront all of us in common, and to move us towards a safer and more prosperous future. That is the argument for world federation in a nutshell, and the basic premise of this book. The present United Nations is clearly inadequate for the task. (Full Book)
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“Most of the things worth doing in the world have been declared impossible before they were done.” L. Brandeis
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