THE WORLD FEDERALIST INSTITUTE

The World Federalist Institute – an educational program of Citizens for Global Solutions – facilitates debate, discussion, and sharing of research and writings on the principle of federalism and its applicability to resolving global problems which nations cannot solve alone. The goal of the Institute is the investigation and development of pragmatic proposals that would ultimately lead to the creation of a democratic global political system of a federal structure.

Through submitting policy recommendations to Citizens for Global Solutions, the Institute aims to provide the organization the capacity to consider innovative solutions to some of the most fundamental policy challenges facing the world today.

Topics that the Institute may address include assessment and reform of member state voting at the United Nations, the creation of an international emergency police force, supporting the spread of democracy around the world, and limiting the occurrence and scope of war, genocide and humanitarian disasters.

WFI operates through an interactive website that includes a Citizens for Global Solutions Discussion Forum (see link in center) to discuss any relevant issues, as well as a Fellows Forum that will encourage open debate and discussion of new ideas. Fellows will also introduce and discuss policy papers and provide answers to policy questions being explored by Citizens for Global Solutions.

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World Federalist Institute
Steering Committee & Fellows

Brian Aull - Co-Chair, Coalition for a Strong UN
Joseph Baratta - Author, The Politics of World Federation
Thomas Camarella - Vice Chair, Citizens for Global Solutions Board of Directors
David Crocker - Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy
Tad Daley* - Progressive Democrats of America
Stephen L. Damours*, Vice Chair - Author, America the Almighty
Richard Falk - Author, The Declining World Order
Jock Forbes* - Coalition to Build a Strong UN
Ronald Glossop*, Chair - Author, Confronting War and World Federation?
Scott Hoffman* - WFI Director
Walter Hoffmann - Center for UN Reform Education
Didier Jacobs* - Oxfam America
Robert Johansen - Founding Editor, World Policy Journal
Aaron Knight - Citizens for Global Solutions Executive Vice President
Asma Lateef* - Director of Policy and Programs, Citizens for Global Solutions
Mariel Leonard - Recent graduate of William & Mary, former WFI intern
Genevieve Marcus - Cofounder WFA Gender Equity Comm.
Saul Mendlovitz - Rutgers University Law School
Thesil Morlan* - Editor, Minerva
Kelly Nelson* - Assistant to the WFI Director
Brett Pettit* - Senior at Tulane University, former WFI intern
James Riker - Associate Director, Democracy Collaborative
Christopher Robertson - Harvard Law School, J.D. Student
Joseph Schwartzberg* - Author, Revitalizing the United Nations
Jane Shevtshov - Recent graduate of UCLA
Andrew Strauss - Widener University School of Law
Barbara Walker - Editor, World Federalist Reader, V. I-II
Lucy Law Webster* - Economists For Peace and Security
Dessima Williams - Department of Sociology, Brandeis University
Lawrence Wittner - Author, The Struggle Against the Bomb

Affiliations are noted for identification purposes only; no endorsement of WFI’s views or positions is intended.

* member of the WFI Steering Committee