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Our Vision
The need
There is a need for all caring humans to design and build a positive
alternative to current world power architecture.
There is a need for all caring humans to create a durable system
of human global governance. Such system should be based
on the most globally shared ethical values, explicit
expression of the citizens' will.
There is a certain urgency to achieve this goal because of
serious risks to the survival of humanity posed by the
use of weapons of mass destruction.
There is a certain urgency to achieve this goal to counter the
risks of a further degeneration of global human
conditions through the fashioning of some durable form
of inhumane global governance.
Benefits
The creation of such system of global governance would be
extremely desirable, reasonably feasible, and crucial to
ensure humanity's survival.
The creation of such system of global governance, would
substantially improve the prospects for current and
future generations in respect to nuclear safety, peace,
economic justice, individual freedom, collective
freedom, environmental health, global livelihood, intercultural
understanding, rights to information and cultural diversity.
The project
Such system should be realized through an acceleration of global
constituent processes involving world citizens
themselves and a number of legitimate global social
actors.
Such processes will have, as their final objective, the
Constitution of a Re-constituent Assembly of United
Nations that defines and implements a new power
architecture, global governance and institutions.
It is to be hoped that such processes will eventually be
officially endorsed by UN, through specific amendments
of art. 108/109 of its Statute. This option, however, is
reasonably unlikely, because of UN's charter's own
internal dynamics.
World citizens, as individuals and as represented in
democratic global social actors, should have
transnational organizations and networks of: directly
elected world citizens' representatives; statistically sampled
world citizens; citizen groups; NGOs; religious groups; national
parliamentarians; national trade unions; non-profit organizations;
constitutional scholars; heads of state; UN-system democratic bodies;
religious leaders; intellectuals, academics, former heads of state;
opinion leaders and others.
Transnational corporations, media companies, rich countries and military
powers, however, already possess a disproportionate
power to influence such process. This power should be
acknowledged and actively counterbalanced.
Such
system should have the moral duty towards future
generations to prevent all potential self -
degenerations. Because of that, Statutes of these systems
should affirm procedures that allow world citizens to make total
revisions of the entire system.
Its feasibility
Nowadays
humanity has all which is necessary to successfully
pursue this task within one generation, provided that an
adequate set of world citizens will soon develop the
will and determination to make it happen.
This task
is not in nature and complexity substantially different
from similar past constituent processes that have
successfully created some of today's national
democracies.
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