The planetary challenge is urgent and systemic. The world confronts twenty-first century perils hobbled by twentieth century mindsets and institutions, a dangerous gap that bodes ill. A just and sustainable civilization is still possible. We can forge a path to a different future: a world of lives enriched and nature resilient.  

A fragmented movement is incapable of systemic transformation. Civil society efforts are vital, but lack an overarching vision and strategy matched to the complexity of the historic task. A critical social actor is missing from the global stage. The transition awaits the awakening of a vast cultural and political movement engaged on all fronts in a supranational project of global citizenship.  

The Global Citizens Movement (GCM) will be adaptive and polycentric. The living movement will evolve as a dispersed ecology of associations, spawning centers of influence in every nation and community. A new organizing campaign, The Widening Circle, with the explicit aim of catalyzing a global movement of global citizens is evolving. From the onset, such a campaign must foster a politics of trust, committed to balancing unity and pluralism on the road to our common future. Join the Dialogue! Join the Campaign! 

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