A Global Citizen is somebody who lives without allowing borders to limit the way we view other people, the way we view ourselves, or the ways we choose to impact the world around us.

– Xiuhtezcatl Martinez

Introduction Keynote

We Are All Global Citizens | Seeing Ourselves in the Advancement of All

By Joni Carley and Daniel Perell

Our Keynote authors represent the Coalition for Global Citizenship (CGC2030). The Coalition, based at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, advocates that governments, public and private sectors, and civil society, all work from a basis of values of just and fair treatment, inclusion and cooperation.

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Article Interspirituality

Evolving Toward Cooperation

By Kurt Johnson

Of course, the question was—after a century and a half of “Social Darwinism” claiming that it was all about competition, from the lowest to the highest—could our world now dominated by the shark-tank rubrics of business, economics, and politics adjust to this astounding news? Could it realize that because of this basic blunder about Darwin’s message, we had, in fact, ended up with dystopia instead of utopia?

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Article Partnership Society

Breaking Out of the Domination Trance

By Riane Eisler

I have been asked to tell you about the findings from my research identifying the core components of a safer, more equitable, and caring world—especially one where women and children are finally safe—a goal that is very close to my heart.

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Music Young Change Agents

Xiuhtezcatl Martinez | Break Free

By Kari Auerbach

My identity and my life as an activist has a very specific energy that people associate me with. In many parts of my life, I saw it as definitely putting me in a box in the way people saw me and my story. People didn’t understand the complexity and diversity of what I was fighting for or the way I wanted to use my voice to influence change.

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Conversation Refugee Crisis

FILM | LIFEBOAT, Refugees Adrift at Sea

By Skye Fitzgerald

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?

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Gallery Human Displacement

The Most Important Thing

By Brian Sokol

Since 2012 Brian Sokol has focused on telling the stories of refugees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), and stateless people in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. The Most Important Thing—his ongoing, long-term portraiture project—seeks to humanize and convey the dignity of individuals who have been dehumanized by conflict, government policies and the media.

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Credits

Staff and Advisors

Winter 2018 Global Citizen, Global Spirit

Introduction

Editorial
The Practice of Global Citizenship
Rhonda Fabian

Articles

Partnership Society
Breaking Out of the Domination Trance
Riane Eisler
Interspirituality
Evolving Toward Cooperation
Kurt Johnson
Indigenous
Returning to Indigenous Worldview
Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), aka Donald Trent Jacobs
New Economy
BOOK | Farming for the Long Haul
Michael Foley

Conversations

Consciousness
On Elevating the Human Narrative
Judy Rodgers, Gayatri Naraine, Rhonda Fabian
Refugee Crisis
FILM | LIFEBOAT, Refugees Adrift at Sea
Skye Fitzgerald
Values
For Love of Place | Reflections of an Agrarian Sage
Wendell Berry and Allen White

Essays

Political Identity
Globalism-Nationalism, the New Left-Right
Jordan Pittman
New Economy
The Economics of Solidarity, Spirit, and Soul
Shaun Chamberlin
Pedagogy
Global Citizenship | An Emerging Agenda in Education
Ambassador Choonghee Hahn
Reader's Essay
Caring for the Soul of Humanity
Bruna Kadletz
Reader's Essay
A Pocket Full of Stones
Vivienne Hull

Galleries

Human Displacement
The Most Important Thing
Brian Sokol

Poetry

Three Poems
Willa Schneberg
Almost Bethlehem
Maria Robinson
The Rebel’s Silhouette
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Razbliuto
Darlene Pagán
Las Vegas
Brandon Marlon

Music

Young Change Agents
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez | Break Free
Kari Auerbach
World Harmony
Playing for Change
Kari Auerbach

Documents

Primary Resource
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Human Rights Commission
Interspirituality
Toward a Global Ethic
Dr. Hans Küng, et al
Primary Resource
The Earth Charter
Earth Charter International