Global Citizenship

Explore our archive of articles on Global Citizenship.

The One Home Journey | Seven Years for Seven Generations

Journal Article

Dr. Rama Mani and Professor Alexander Schieffer are embarking on an epic journey. On Earth Day, April 22, 2024, their 7-year expedition begins - visiting every country while weaving a new narrative of interconnectedness and regeneration. Follow their itinerary and progress in Kosmos.

Published in Volume 24 Issue 2 By Rama Mani and Alexander Schieffer

Humanæ

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Published in Summer 2018 By Angélica​ ​Dass

Statement on the Unique Challenge of Nuclear Weapons

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"The destructive capacity of nuclear weapons is beyond imagination, poisoning the Earth forever. These horrific devices place before us every day the decision whether we will be the last human generation. The power to unleash this destruction is in the hands of a small number of people. No one should be holding such power over the very creation, which we regard as a sacred gift for all today and for future generations."

Published in Winter 2018 By Jonathan Granoff

Global Citizenship | An Emerging Agenda in Education

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Introduced at an early stage of child development, global citizenship education enhances mutual respect and understanding, tolerance, and cultural literacy, while substantially weakening the power of radicalized messages.

Published in Winter 2018 By Ambassador Choonghee Hahn

Caring for the Soul of Humanity

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I was 25 years old when I witnessed human misery for the first time. It was 2008, and I had moved to a remote city in the underprivileged state of Maranhão, in Northeast Brazil. Despite moving with the illusion of building a new life, the harsh realities of extreme poverty and structural violence expanded my worldview in ways I couldn’t imagine.

Published in Winter 2018 By Bruna Kadletz

Globalism-Nationalism, the New Left-Right

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The Information Revolution is shifting the axis of our contemporary political system. While the old Left-Right divide will remain for the foreseeable future, a new schism is arising to form the crux of our political beliefs—the Globalism-Nationalism divide.

Published in Winter 2018 By Jordan Pittman

On Elevating the Human Narrative

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Judy Rodgers | ...I think decisions about things like governance or institutions source from our awareness. We can’t build something if it’s outside the scope of our awareness. We can’t design a true commons if we’re in a very limited consciousness.

Published in Winter 2018 By Judy Rodgers, Gayatri Naraine, Rhonda Fabian

FILM | LIFEBOAT, Refugees Adrift at Sea

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Kosmos Journal | In 2015, your team produced 50 Feet from Syria, a film focused on the civilian impact of the Syrian conflict. Your new film, Lifeboat, bears witness to refugees desperate enough to risk their lives in rubber boats leaving Libya. What was different for you personally about making those two films?

Published in Winter 2018 By Skye Fitzgerald

The Insurgent Power of the Commons in the War Against the Imagination

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I believe the commons paradigm can help us develop a new social and cultural vision, and new strategies for practical change. Paradoxically enough, redirecting our attention away from conventional politics and policy may offer the most promising possibilities for developing a transformational vision.

Published in Winter 2018 By David Bollier

BOOK | Farming for the Long Haul

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Farmers in urban civilizations have always been subject to powers beyond them. Indeed, there is ample evidence that urban civilizations were invariably built on the conquest and subjection of farming cultures. Our current food industry grew out of the defeat of farmers’ efforts in the late nineteenth century to win fair prices for their production.

Published in Winter 2018 By Michael Foley