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Citizens for Global Solutions We work towards global governance innovations today and democratic world federation tomorrow. We now face threats that were unimaginable 75 years ago.

Nuclear proliferation, climate change, mass migration, and terrorism are a daily occurrence. We need a new UN, capable of handling these challenges. CGS has partnered with organizations worldwide to use the occasion of the UN’s 75th anniversary to push for meaningful change.

No one is supposed to be above the law, including people who commit war crimes. That promise is now under real strain.On...
10/14/2026

No one is supposed to be above the law, including people who commit war crimes. That promise is now under real strain.

On October 9 the US government sanctioned the International Criminal Court itself. The Court has issued 61 arrest warrants and 13 convictions since 2002. It could now lose access to the banks it needs to pay staff and protect witnesses.

Citizens for Global Solutions has signed a joint statement with more than 120 organizations from over 60 countries. It asks the Court's 125 member states to step in and protect it. Read it here: https://coalitionfortheicc.org/news/urgent-call-action-states-must-act-now-protect-international-criminal-court-us-sanctions

Our board member, historian Lawrence Wittner, explains how we got here and what is at stake: https://globalsolutions.org/updates/blog/the-international-criminal-court-is-under-attack/

10/13/2026

Peace isn't just the absence of conflict, it's something we actively build. 🕊️✨

Our Global Governance Fellows at Trinity Washington University gathered for an inspiring workshop hosted by the Institute for Economics & Peace to explore the concept of Positive Peace and the Eight Pillars that foster societies.

Want to learn more about the Fellowship and our upcoming events? Check our website: https://globalsolutions.org/

The worst crimes people commit against each other, genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, do not stop at borders...
10/13/2026

The worst crimes people commit against each other, genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, do not stop at borders. That is why 125 countries built a court that can try the people responsible when their own governments will not.

That court is now under heavy pressure. Its judges face sanctions, its prosecutor and eight judges were sentenced to prison in absentia for doing their jobs, and five countries have announced they are leaving.

CGS board member Lawrence Wittner explains what is happening and why it matters for all of us: https://globalsolutions.org/updates/blog/the-international-criminal-court-is-under-attack/

Some problems cross every border, and economic inequality is one of them. The richest 10 percent of adults receive 53 pe...
10/06/2026

Some problems cross every border, and economic inequality is one of them. The richest 10 percent of adults receive 53 percent of the world's income. The poorest half receives 8 percent. Now more than 1,500 economists and a growing group of governments are asking the UN General Assembly to set up an International Panel on Inequality, modeled on the climate science panel. Lawrence S. Wittner explains how the campaign got here and what comes next. Read it here: https://globalsolutions.org/updates/blog/a-campaign-to-address-global-economic-inequality/

Authoritarian populism has been on the rise for over a decade, and faith in democracy has fallen with it. Historian Manu...
09/16/2026

Authoritarian populism has been on the rise for over a decade, and faith in democracy has fallen with it. Historian Manu Bhagavan was one of the first to spot that trend, and he now sees a way out.

Join Citizens for Global Solutions for our next Norman Cousins Lecture: The Way Out: Rekindling Democracy in the 21st Century. Professor Bhagavan (Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY) will look at what recent setbacks for authoritarian movements have in common and chart a course for democratic renewal.

📅 Wednesday, 7 October 2026, 12:00 PM ET
💻 Free, online via Zoom

Register here: https://globalsolutions.org/event/the-way-out-rekindling-democracy-in-the-21st-century/

09/11/2026

42nd Ventotene International Seminar 🌟

Our NV4GS Essay Contest Winner had the amazing opportunity to engage in meaningful conversation about European federalism on the historic island of Ventotene, where the Ventotene Manifesto was written by Altiero Spinelli and Ernesto Rossi in 1941.

Special thanks to and for organzing this seminar for conversation and ideas to flow for a better future!

To read Andrew’s winning essay, click the link in our bio!

Peace is more than the absence of violence, and it turns out you can measure it.Every fall CGS runs a five-week workshop...
09/10/2026

Peace is more than the absence of violence, and it turns out you can measure it.

Every fall CGS runs a five-week workshop series for our Global Governance Fellows at Trinity Washington University. This year we are opening one of the sessions to everyone.

On Monday 5 October, Michael Collins of the Institute for Economics and Peace walks through the eight pillars of Positive Peace and how to read your own community through them. Two hours, online, free to attend.

If you run a club or a chapter, come with your own community in mind. The framework is built to be re-taught, and this session gives you one you can run yourself.

Register here: https://globalsolutions.org/event/positive-peace-as-a-tool/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=positive-peace-oct5

Canada and the United States built the friendliest border in the world over about a hundred and fifty years. Arbitration...
09/07/2026

Canada and the United States built the friendliest border in the world over about a hundred and fifty years. Arbitration instead of gunboats. Joint commands in two world wars. 80 percent of Americans still say they view Canada favorably.

This August a 50 percent tariff hit Canadian imports, the talks broke down, and three quarters of Canadians backed their government in refusing to fold.

Larry Wittner's new piece makes a point worth sitting with: relationships between countries should not be this easy to break. What steadies them is law everyone agreed to, and institutions with enough authority to apply it.

Read it here: https://globalsolutions.org/updates/blog/its-possible-to-salvage-canadian-american-friendship/

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