Mundialization

Mundialization (French: mondialisation) means globalization and particularly democratic globalization.

History

The original use of "mondialisation" was to refer to the act of a city or a local authority declaring itself a "world citizen" city, by voting a charter stating its awareness of global problems and its sense of shared responsibility. The concept was invented by the self-declared World Citizen Garry Davis in 1949, as a logical extension of the idea of individuals declaring themselves world citizens, and promoted by Robert Sarrazac, a former leader of the French Résistance who created the Human Front of World Citizens in 1945. The first city to be officially mundialised was the small French city of Cahors (only 20,000 in 2006), the capital city of the Département of Lot in central France, on 20 July 1949. Hundreds of cities mundialised themselves over a few years, most of them in France, and then it spread internationally, including to many German cities and to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In less than a year, 10 General Councils (the elected councils of the French "Départements"), and hundreds of cities in France covering 3.4 million inhabitants voted mundialisation charters. One of the goals was to elect one delegate per million inhabitants to a People's World Constitutional Convention given the already then visible failure of the United Nations to create global institutions able to really negotiate world peace.

Description

Mundialisation is a movement expressing the solidarity of populations of the globe and aiming to establish institutions and supranational laws of a federative structure common to them, while respecting the diversity of cultures and peoples.

The mundialisation movement advocates for a new political organisation governing all humanity, involving the transfer of certain parts of national sovereignty to a Federal World Authority, Federal World Government and Federal World Court. Basing its authority on the will of the people, and developing new systems to draw the highest and best wisdom of all humanity into the task of governing our world, the collaborative governing system would be capable of solving the problems which call into question the future of man, such as hunger, water, war, peace-keeping, pollution and energy.

Mundialisation includes the declaration of specified territory - a city, town, or state, for example - as world territory, with responsibilities and rights on a world scale.

Currently the nation-state system and the United Nations offer no way for the people of the world to vote for world officials or participate in governing our world. International treaties or agreements lack the force of law. Mundialization seeks to address this lack by presenting a way to build, one city at a time, such a system of true World Law based upon the sovereignty of the whole.

To date, more than 1000 cities and towns have declared themselves World Cities including Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Toronto, Hiroshima, Tokyo, Nivelles, and Königswinter.

See also

• Alter-globalisation
• Democratic mundialisation
• Democratic globalization
• Continental Union
• Energy income redistribution
• European Union
• Federal World
• Globalisation
• Global warming
• Governance
• Humanism
• John Locke
• People's World Constitutional Convention
• United Nations and United Nations Parliamentary Assembly
• Well-being
• World citizen
• World Federalist Movement

External links

• The Call for a World Constitutional Convention
• World Constitution and Parliament Association
• Hamilton Mundialization Committee
• Mundailization Committee | City of Burlington
• History of the MUNDIALIZATIONS