Join the Global Citizens Movement

Kosmos was founded on the fundamental principle of justice, compassion and human dignity for all people. Over 70% of humanity recognizes the importance of global citizenship (as distinct from economic globalization), but most people identify exclusively with their own country. Expanding our sense of community to include all humanity (and all life) becomes increasingly important in meeting current global challenges.In an interdependent world our most insidious problems are planetary in scale, requiring a global systemic understanding to manage and solve them.

In this section you will find articles about global citizenship and The Widening Circle (TWC) campaign to strengthen the Global Citizens Movement, to be launched through a Global Assembly in late 2012. Kosmos is a member of the Coordinating Circle for TWC that now has Regional Circles forming in all continents as well as Issue Circles and Circles of Allies connecting a global network that will participate in the launch. For more information see: www.wideningcircle.org

	The Widening Circle - Toward a Global Citizens Movement by The Widening Circle		Issue Article Type
	http://wideningcircle.org. In the Planetary Phase of Civilization, humanity and Earth have become a single community of fate. We are in the midst of a turbulent transition from the world that was to some form of global society, with no exit and no separate solutions for individuals, communities, or countries. The transition is generating a host of ominous transnational problems – climate change and ecosystem degradation, economic instability and geopolitical conflict, oppression and mass migration – that left unattended might well pull us toward a bleak tomorrow. Read Article		Other Articles Other

	Imagine all the People | Advancing a Global Citizens Movement by Paul Raskin		Issue Article Type
	How to change the world? Those concerned about the dangerous drift of global development are asking this question with increasing urgency. Dominant institutions have proved too timorous or too venal for meeting the environmental and social challenges of our time. Instead, an adequate response requires us to imagine the awakening of a new social actor: a coordinated global citizens movement (GCM) struggling on all fronts toward a just and sustainable planetary civilization. Read Article		Spring | Summer 2011 Kosmos

	Global Citizens, Part I by Mark Gerzon		Issue Article Type
	“Why do the people in France hate us?” a second year student, one of almost three hundred seated in the large lecture hall, asked me. “They tried to attack the Olympic torch when it was passing through Paris. Is that because they don’t like our country?” For a split second, I was speechless. I knew the answer to the Chinese student’s question. Read Article		Fall | Winter 2009 Kosmos

	Global Passports: The Mark Gerzon Story by Mark Gerzon		Issue Article Type
	Kosmos salutes Mark Gerzon for living his life as a global citizen and for his remarkable skills in facilitating large-scale global change. His pioneering work in developing global leaders will be a model for future generations. Read Article		Spring | Summer 2005 Kosmos

	How Defining Planetary Boundaries Can Transform Our Approach to Growth by Multiple Authors		Issue Article Type
	Our planet’s ability to provide an accommodating environment for humanity is being challenged by our own activities. The environment—our life-support system—is changing rapidly from the stable Holocene state of the last 12,000 years, during which we developed agriculture, villages, cities, and contemporary civilizations, to an unknown future state of significantly different conditions. Read Article		Other Articles Other

	Listening to the Voice of Humanity by Steven Kull		Issue Article Type
	When we look at world conditions and project current trends into the future we see much that is disturbing—environmental degradation, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, persisting poverty and injustice, violent conflict, the fiscal collapse of democratic governments. The institutions that have the greatest power—nation states, corporations, and organized interest groups—seem locked in patterns of self-interested behavior such that the necessary changes are hard to imagine. Read Article		Spring | Summer 2010 Kosmos