One World Government

Regardless of our physical appearance, nationality, religion or culture we are all one people.  What we lack is a world government that is democratically elected and representative of every single person on earth regardless of physical attributes, religious beliefs or cultural values.

Does the air in our athmosphere stay confined within national boundaries?  Does water in our hydrosphere stay confined to national boundaries?  Do Tsunamies, whether tidal or economic, stay contained to individual nations?  Can pollution, global warming, destruction of the ionosphere and such be governed and regulated by national governments or do we need a higher level of government  - one world government - for all of Earth? 

One world government?  Before I even start explaining what is being proposed let me explain what is not being proposed!  I am not proposing a simplistic conversion of the United Nations to a world government.  Nor am I proposing expanding the European Union as a model for world government.  What I am proposing is a conservative, albeit brand new, super confederation of nations.

Confederation by definition is a group of loosely allied states.  Examples include the United States, Canada, India and many other countries where individual states coalesced into a nation. This new super confederation of nations then would be a new higher layer of government atop of existing municipal, regional and national governments.

This super confederation, a natural extension of the current systems of government, will by design on the one hand address global issues such as global warming, pollution, economics & finance, while on the other hand preserve individuality of people, their social, cultural, religious and other comfort zones so every individual on earth has the greatest freedom of thought and belief and unlimited opportunity to grow on an extremely competitive planet.

Consider this:  Our world consists of an atmosphere and a hydrosphere.  These are not confined to national boundaries.  The air that you breathe out consists of carbon dioxide (CO²) for example.  This CO² gets into the air, gets blown across provinces, states, countries, and continents and ultimately gets absorbed into a plant somewhere else on earth, perhaps in another country, perhaps in another continent.  Likewise the oxygen that you and I breathe in may come from a plant in some far corner of the earth.  Our lives whether human, animal or plant all depend upon this oxygen and carbon dioxide cycle.

Consider this:  Hundreds of tons of waste (mercury for example) are dumped into our hydrosphere, much of it toxic.  The spread of this waste is not contained within territorial borders but expands out to contaminate oceans worldwide.  It destroys life in streams, rivers, seas and oceans worldwide.  Over fishing and other bad practices exacerbate the destruction to life in our hydrosphere.

Consider this:  Global warming is not segmented by countries or continents.  Global warming is in a significant way the cumulative effect of actions by millions of people all over our planet without any consideration of territorial boundaries.  Global warming is also contributed to by natural systems in no way connected to the actions of humans.  Yet we humans have the power to control global warming not only by changing how we ourselves behave (contributing to global warming) but also have by our imaginative and creative power the ability to compensate for global warming caused by non human factors. What causes global warming is a great rhetorical question.  The real question is this:  Are we humans going to watch global warming increase to the point that life on earth is not sustainable or we going to do something about it?

Consider this:  People, humans like you and me, are killing each other for Religious, Social, Political and Economical reasons. Gaza, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Zimbabwe and we can go on and on are painful examples.

History shows us that for large swaths in time Christians, Jews and Muslims lived in harmony in what is now Israel. Likewise Hindus and Muslims lived in peace and harmony in the Indian subcontinent for example at the time of Hazrat Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti as did Christians who became a part of the Indian fabric later.  So if people with differences could live in harmony in the past (and still do in most parts of the democratic world) then why can’t all peoples of the world, each with their own beliefs live in harmony and indeed work together to overcome the huge challenges we have now and in future?

Consider this:  Can all of the problems described above be resolved by the United Nations, European Union, ASEAN - or any other existing organization - or do we need to create a new level of government to deal with global issues while leaving national, regional and local issues to existing national, regional and municipal levels of government?

There is a suggestion that the G8 be replaced by the G20, in effect 20 rather than 8 of the world's most prominant countries work together - albeit competing with each other - on Global issues.  While the move does enfranchise 12 more countries it still leaves the remaining 170 countries disenfranchised.  Do the other 170 countries and the people therein not matter?

I do not believe that these problems can effectively be tackled by existing national governments or institutions.  I do believe we need a global level of government formed by a confederation of existing national governments.

How to get to this Super Confederation?

It is not possible to get to a global government, a confederation of nations, overnight. Global government has to evolve – just like everything else has in our universe. The rest of this article is not a commentary on how this evolution should or will happen. Rather it is a commentary on how this evolution could happen. Whether this evolution to a new global layer of government happens – or not – and how this does indeed evolve totally depends upon us, you, me, and all other human beings that populate our world.

I think the first step is for those of us who recognize the impossibility of effectively controlling global issues such as global warming, pollution, inter national conflicts and such without a global level of government, and those of us who are passionate about this, do two things: (1) be an evangelist for a global layer of government and (2) band together to form a global movement or movements towards that end. I hope this blog facilitates the formation of one such movement which I (being the first member of this movement) name it “One World, One People, and One Government Movement”.  For this movement to be successful it should not target or present a threat to any existing nations or forms of government whether one party, two party, multi party, secular, religious or communist). This aspired global layer of government will only govern global matters, matters that are beyond any individual nation, and will have to work harmoniously with all forms of national governments.

If and when there is a critical mass of people supporting this movement (or other such movements) there will be a need to add structure and organization.  In our case we could form a party say “One World, One People Party”.  This second step will require getting thousands, hopefully millions of like minded people worldwide into an organized, structured party.  This will be a huge undertaking way beyond the capability of this one person movement today as I write this article, but we can tackle this if and when we get large enough membership in this movement.

This structured, organized party – totally devoid of links to any other existing political, ethnic or cultural party around the world as they exist today or subscribing to any existing form of government (democracy, communism, or theocracy) – then develops a global manifesto (a public written declaration of principles, policies, and objectives). This global manifesto should define and dwell on the issues that are patently beyond the capability of existing national governments. The key element of the global manifesto is its Global scope.

Once we have achieved this level of maturity the “One World, One People” organization can inject itself in various national governments in many ways:

1.  In countries that have a multi-party system of government this party can register and compete with other existing parties. Cream rises to the top.  Because of its inclusiveness, universality and potential to bring positive global change across every nation this party will likely succeed in elections and, when in power, work together with other “One World, One People” party governed national governments to form the global layer of government aspired.

At the national level though, there could be many individual “One World, One People” parties each with their own unique name, each with their own national and domestic agenda. What brings them together is their adoption of the global “One World, One Party” manifesto while what differentiate them will be their national domestic stances. Obviously the fewer such parties abound will increase the chances of one of them reaching power. So the national “One World, One People” party that is most inclusive and universal can coalesce with others to increase their numbers and succeed.

There will be a temptation for such national “One World, One People” governments to compromise on the global manifesto and claim to be 99.9999% adoptive of the global manifesto while being 0.0001% deviant.  This should not be allowed!  All parties should be 100% compliant with the global manifesto and there should be a mechanism to certify compliancy at the global party level.  If there is even a small deviation between the global manifesto and that of any individual national party then there should be a negotiation and a change to the global manifesto (after consultation with other national parties) so there is absolutely no discrepancy in the global agenda.

 

2   In countries that have a two-party system of government there are two potential avenues:

a.    One or both parties adopt the “One World, One People” global manifesto as described above and add it to their national manifesto.  Everything applicable to a new political party in a multi-party state will apply to this existing albeit transformed political party or

b.   Independents, members of the “One World, One People” party can band together,  develop a domestic national common manifesto, and then stand for elections as independents subscribing to that manifesto, in effect becoming a third party in a two-party system.  Again, because of their inclusiveness and universality this group of independents – the third party – hopefully will be the cream that rises to the top.  They will have to deal with this anomaly of being the successful third party in a two party state.  Everything applicable to the “One World, One People” parties stated above will apply.

2. Countries that have a one party system – whatever that system is – equally have an opportunity to join the “One World, One People” government.  As an inclusive, universal party we have to recognize that there have been several very popular single party governments in history whether kingdoms or presidents who came to power due to their achievements and consequent popularity.  This cannot be denied.The monarchs, presidents, premiers or prime ministers of these one party systems have an opportunity to become a part of the “One World, One People” government by accepting 100% the manifesto of the “One World, One People” party and being formally accepted by this party.  No government that cannot be inclusive and universal in its outlook can ever be a part of this new global party and government.  These rogue governments led by rogue leaders (mischievously playful persons who are also likable to some) – some albeit relevant in the past - will ultimately isolate themselves. If their subjects are influenced by the “One World, One People, One Government” movement, their subjects will not agree to remain subjugated forever, reality will prevail and these governments will change.   

 If we people of earth, regardless of nationality, religion, ethnicity, colour or belief can join together in an all inclusive, universal movement to transform this world from its current state - lacking a global government - to a future state inclusive of a global government we can transform the world from one where nations compete to one where nations cooperate we can raise the quality of lives in parts of the world without reducing the current quality of lives in other parts of the world.

 While today:

 There is a global recession resultant from a United States mortgage sub-prime situation.

1. This US national economical situation, compounded by other US national economic situations caused a global economic Tsunami.
2. Countries are circling their wagons, protecting themselves from economic threats from other nations.
3. This same protection poses economic threats to those other nations who are equally circling their wagons to protect themselves..
4. All this national circling of wagons creates a lose/lose proposition for all peoples of earth. 

By having a global layer of government where all nations are represented equally with one universal currency, universal trade agreements rather than national or regional trade barriers it is possible to leverage the strengths of different regions of earth (North America and Europe for their technological leadership, South America and the Middle East for their natural resources, Asia for manpower, etc.) in a spirit of cooperation so it’s a win/win proposition for all peoples of earth.

Neither Democracy nor Communism were formed by existing governments transforming.  France and the UK are prime examples of people instituting change toward democratic governments.  Likewise China and Russia are prime examples of people instituting change toward communist governments.  In those days people of the movement took pitchforks and scythes and went out on the streets.  Today I believe we can even more effectively change world government using the power of the World Wide Web/Internet without leaving our homes.  Communism nor Democracy would have happened without people banding together to the cause.  One World Government will not happen without people embracing the idea and joining the movement.

For those of you who do embrace the idea of a One World Government we have created Google groups for everyone to help develop a single global manifesto for the "One World Party".

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Comments

[Paul Sinclair]

Great to here from you. I like your blog. I stayed away from the One World Government idea because I felt it would sow division until the world's people were spiritually enabled to want it.

Presently many people are very patriotic and dogmatic in their thinking and lost down the dark, narrow alleyways of ignorance. Many are suspicious of leaders and governments from their own nations and other nations and often mistrust people from other cultures who they don't understand. The world would need a spiritual leader who the world's people trusted implicitly and wanted to lead them. The type of people qualified for that role are very rare. Modern times have seen such leaders as Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr and Nelson Mandela so others will surely come along. But in their absence it's up to us to be the change we want to see in the world and lead by example. That is the hardest part for me. If I want a world united in common brotherhood then I must develop my goodwill and love for all the world's people evenly. I must be able to see the good in all people and draw it out whilst forgiving the bad. Similarly if I want world peace then I must learn to myself be non-violent in thought, word and deed. Obviously no-one will follow a man or woman who preaches peace but is themselves not at peace. Angry thoughts, unforgiving attitudes, uncontrolled emotions all can be hidden to some extent but as soon as the pressure is on then they inevitably make their way to the surface as ugly words and ugly behaviour and any opportunity to sow peace is quickly lost.

[Shawn Du'Mmett]

It's really reassuring to see someone else writing similar ideas to something that has been burning in my mind. I started a similar site some time ago but found it hard to sell the idea. My thinking is that we do not need leaders any more, we have the technology and the ability to collaborate equally to govern the things that are necessary and important to us.

In answer to Paul's comment I would add that we need somehow to find it within ourselves collectively to lead - if only we could put forward the best of our ideals, principles and methods to create this then a world government would become something wonderful, brushing away all the conspiracy theories and negativity that currently surrounds it.

[Tony]

I assume you are all aware of the successful efforts by the World Federalist Movement in the creation of the International Criminal Court and similar international norms that would underlie such a confederation of nations. If you're in the U.S., also check out the Citizens for Global Solutions organization. It would be great to add your enthusiasm to these existing, engaged and successful efforts rather than feel you need to launch a new initiative.

[Monist]

Thank you Tony. For some time now I thought that Shawn Du’Mmett and myself were the only two people on earth who believed in a One World Government. Honestly I did not hear of the World Federalist Movement until now (thank you). I do not believe that other people like me around me have heard of it either. I have looked up the WFM and am pleased to learn there are 50,000 plus members who believe in a One World Government. I have also learned that the WFM works closely with the United Nations and is indeed to be credited with the creation of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

I don’t mean to be critical but I think that both the United Nations and the ICC are idealistic organizations with no wind in their sails. Therefore they are both impotent, benign. Cases in point:

1. Just yesterday Ban Ki-Moon, the head of the United Nations, met with the military junta in Burma for the second time in two days with zero result. This is just one instance where the UN has proved impotent.
2. Iran and North Korea continuously thumb their noses at the UN.
3. Not too long ago Iraq under Saddam Hussein thumbed its nose at the UN.
4. The ICC is in the same boat. Its ruling to arrest Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir has been met by the African Union rejecting this ruling.

I am not picking on the UN and the ICC. The same applies to other organizations such as The Organization of American States for example the case of ousted President Manuel Zelaya and Honduras.

These organizations are good but need wind in their sails. This wind in their sails can only be generated by average people on every country on earth getting on board. I am glad to note that WFM seeks not to suppress other organizations with a similar vision but rather to welcome them into their fold as members. I will be applying to get www.weonepeople.com one such member. I have also added the link to WFM to my site.

One thing that sets my blog championing a One World Government apart from others (to the best of my knowledge) is that I recognize we cannot boil the ocean. Before we reach a One World Government, people in Honduras, Iran and every other nation on earth will have to resolve their differences before they unite in a broader global government. I believe that if a One World Government is to be successful it will have to be built upon a ground swell of all people across all nations across the world voting for one. It will be a long time before you and I vote for a President or Prime Minister of a One World Government. That being said it is not too soon to engage in that discussion no matter where you are on earth.

Towards that end I have created discussion groups for every nation on earth. Anyone can go to http://groups.google.com/group/one-world-party/web/find-your-country and pick the country whose debate one wishes to join. The more people join the debate on One World Government the quicker it will happen.