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Reply to the message of Rob WHEELER
Doug EVERINGHAM
Tuesday, December 17, 2002 5:56 PM
ººº Abstract: I agree with Rob Wheeler that a democratic world parliament would
be an ideal body to lead grass roots and intergovernmental discussions on what
Simultaneous Policy (SP) should include. At the same time I see SP as probably
one of the best means of hastening development of the world parliament.ººº.
There are already 4 (possibly more) self-proclaimed world parliaments,
governments or democracies, and at least a dozen groups hoping to develop such
an alternative to the current fragmentation of the world into rival
sovereignties and economies. Garry Davis proclaimed the World Govenment of
World Citizens soon after World War 2. It has rescued stateless persons and
others requiring passports or similar documents to enable them to cross borders
or obtain the right to live inside at least one country. Perhaps the best
developed and established self-proclaimed global authority is the Provisional
World Parliament launched in 1982 by the World Constitution and Parliament
Association, which claims affiliations and ratifications by groups totally some
4 million in membership, committed to vote for a global democracy. Contact
details for these and other movements for democratizing nations and enterprises
are included in 'World Democracy', my 20-page paper (downloadable on request
and freely usable with acknowledgment of the confernce source) prepared for the
second biennial conference of IIPE, the International Institute for Public
Ethics in 2002.
Alongside SP and the world constitutional federation movement are other
approaches to democratizing world authorities and transnational activities.
Environmental and peace campaigners and others have prompted grudgingly slow
international agreements(of virtually all governments in some cases) on arms
limitations, peacekeeping forces, environmental commitments, war crimes
tribunals and other issues. Such NGOs are slowly co-ordinating and joining
groups like the Global People's Assembly network of which Rob Wheeler is a
leading official and co-ordinator.
Doug Everingham
1975 West Pacific Vice President, World Health Assembly (Geneva)
1982 UN Delegate (Opposition parliamentary adviser, addressing UN on
apartheid).
1998-2000 member, National Consultative Committee on Peace and Disarmament,
Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Now provisional national co-ordinator for Australia, ISPO
(International Simultaneous Policy Organization).
WP21 Alliance Forum on a World Parliament for the 21st Century
E-mail : world-parl@forums.alliance21.org
Fax 1 717 264 5036
Information, inscriptions, désinscriptions: germa@alliance21.org
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