WORLD CITIZEN

'World citizen' is a term with a variety of meanings, often referring to a person who disapproves of traditional geopolitical divisions derived from national citizenship and approves world government and democracy.

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Uses

★ The United Nations Correspondents Association issues an award called Citizen of the World.

★ It may be used by activists such as the World Service Authority that promote an integrated, supranational world government.

★ It may sometimes refer to persons promoting internationalism, predicated on the closer cooperation of sovereign states.

★ The Bahá'í Faith promotes a concept of international unity akin to world citizenship.

★ Oxfam UK has an educational program on global citizenship.

See also

★ Anationalism, an Esperanto-based movement for the suppression of nationalism.

★ Anti-nationalism, the humanist or humanitarian form of which generally corresponds to the world citizen concept.

★ Cosmopolitanism

★ Cosmopolitan democracy

★ Global citizenship

★ Global Citizens Movement

★ Global cosmopolitanism

★ Global justice

★ Global democracy

★ Mundialization

★ Perpetual traveler

★ Transnationalism

★ World city

★ World government

★ Anti-patriotism

References

★ For the Love of the World

★ Thoughts & Afterthoughts

★ Sad farewell to 'world citizen'

★ A double standard for politicians' dual citizenship

★ Straight answers

★ Groups promote global governance

★ People: Douglas Mattern: toward a world without borders

External links

★ Cosmopolitanism at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

★ Global Culture Essays on the influence of Global Citizens

★ Living in the World Risk Society by Ulrich Beck at the London School of Economics

★ Great Transition Initiative Paper Series ''Global Politics and Institutions'', paper #3 , and ''Dawn of the Cosmopolitan: The Hope of a Global Citizens Movement'', paper #15, explore the potential for the emergence of a cosmopolitan identity and corresponding institutions.