Born in 1950
World Citizen Card number :23.420
Address : Fayetteville (USA)
robineagle()worldcitizen.org and rob()wmgd.net

Declaration of intention summary

I have been an active supporter of the need for a democratic and participatory means of global governance and an effective rule of international law for the past 12 years. I have participated actively in various UN processes and efforts to reform the United Nations over the past decade. I am prepared to vigorously support the efforts of the Peoples Congress to establish a World Parliament, enact a World Constitution, develop a Participatory System of Global Governance, and create an effective International Rule of Law.

Biography

I have worked actively for a World Parliament or Global Peoples Assembly since 1994, when I attended the Preparatory Conference for the United Peoples Assembly that was held in San Francisco as a part of the UN's 50th Anniversary events in 1995. I subsequently joined the Steering Committee of the Action Committee for Global Change that was championing the effort for a Global Peoples Assembly. Then in 1998 I became the Coordinator of the Millennium Peoples Assembly Network (MPAN) and was selected to serve on the Executive Committee of the UN Millennium NGO Forum.

Meanwhile I participated in the Earth Summit Review Conference at the United Nations, the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, Financing for Development, Peace and Disarmament Processes, and many other events and activities at the United Nations - representing MPAN, the Association of World Citizens, the International Institute for Sustainable Future, the Global Ecovillage Network, and several other organizations over the years.

During this time period I also served on the Steering Committee for the World Civil Society Forum; and participated actively in the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural, and United World. See: <www.alliance21.org>. MPAN continued as the primary advocate of a Global Peoples Assembly at the United Nations and also worked for other means of UN Reform under my leadership.

Then in 2002 I co-coordinated an e-forum on Establishing a World Parliament for the 21st Century and on the Architecture of Global Governance which was associated with the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural, and United World. This was conducted in English, Spanish, and French and continued for several years with more than 400 participants. You can find the first six months of the e-forum archived at: <www.wp21.org>, along with introductions to the discussion topics, summaries of the discussions, and other readings.

I then participated in the World Social Forums in Mumbai, India and Porto Alegre, Brazil where we presented quite a number of workshops on World Democracy and began to organize a Coalition for a World Parliament and Global Democracy. That effort has now transitioned into the development of a Community of World Citizens list serve, a new coalition building effort, and the World Movement for Global Democracy (WMGD), which I have also been quite active in. In fact I am presently serving as the Chair of the International Steering Committee and I am on the Executive Committee for the WMGD. See: <<www.wmgd.net>> and <<http://groups.google.com/group/worldcit>>.

Meanwhile I was quite involved with the Millenniun Summit +5 process and attempted to get the UN to focus on more substantive reforms, however with very little success. It would seem that the Member States are really not all that interested in either democratizing or strengthening the United Nations, which first became obvious to me in 1999 when they rebuffed Secretary-General Kofi Annan's efforts to put UN Reform on the Agenda of the Millennium Assembly in any substantive manner.

I have also been involved with an effort to organize a new World Democracy Movement - USA coalition organization in the United States; and I serve on the Organizing Committee. I was an active member of the World Federalist Association and the World Federalist Movement for many years. I have also participated in and attended meetings and conferences of the UBUNTU World Forum of Civil Society Networks Campaign for the In-Depth Reform of the System of International Institutions; the Perugia Assembly of the UN of the Peoples; as well as the Hague Appeal for Peace Conference, the World Summit on Sustainable Development, the e-Parliament, and the World Civil Society Forum.

Finally, I have been a Teacher and Environmental Education Coordinator; a Performing Artist; and an Environmental, Political, and Peace activist at the local level for the past 35 years. From 1992 - 1997 I co-coordinated a Sustainable Community Campaign in Santa Cruz County in California which included the development of a Local Agenda 21 Plan, a Household EcoTeams Program, a Sustainable Quality Awards Program for Businesses and Community Organizations, and a Sustainable Community Video Film Festival.

I am the primary NGO representative on the Steering Committee for UN Habitat's Initiative on Access to Basic Resources for All; I am on the Advisory Board for GAIA University; and I am the Founder and Chair of the EcoEarth Alliance UN Partnership Initiative, which focuses on Multi-Sectoral Community Based Approaches to Sustainable Rural Development. See: <<www.ecovillage.org/ecoearth>>.

Declaration of intention

First I would participate actively in the intended Functions of Peoples' Congress and provide leadership as needed. This would thus include:

Helping to develop the list of those needs basic to all of humanity - which I am quite familiar with due to my work on the Steering Committee for the Initiative on Access to Basic Services for All, the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, the Millennium Forum, the World Social Forum, and other such processes. The development of such a listing would also be extremely useful for the development of the World Movement for Global Democracy and its Global Action Campaign to solve our primary global problems. Thus we could work cooperatively together on developing this.

Proclaiming the necessity for Global Institutions, which we can also do through the World Movement for Global Democracy, the World Unity Days, and the other UN and civil society processes that I have been a part of for the past ten years, etc.

Determining in which fields the intervention of a supranational authority is urgently needed; how a transfer of authority could be accepted and agreed upon by nation states; how such global institutions could be democratically formed; and what the structures, principles, procedures, and processes for such global institutions could be.

Assisting in the development of a strategy for reaching intergovernmental agreement and acceptance of a World Constitution, along with civil society and popular support for it.

In addition, I would provide leadership in developing a strategy for establishing new institutions of global governance and an international rule of law, building upon the many proposals and initiatives that are already supported by the world democracy movement. The following step would then be to develop a cooperative and coordinated campaign in order to carry out and implement the strategy plan.

The plan itself could include and be based upon the development of the World Movement for Global Democracy; a Global Action Campaign to support the best civil society proposals and initiatives for dealing with our common global problems; the Break Through 2007 process; the celebration of World Unity Days; enrolling millions of people in the Registry of World Citizens, Community of World Citizens, and a new coalition for world democracy processes; and many other civil society events, initiatives, and activities.

These are all processes that I have been following and can help to integrate with the work of the Peoples' Congress and our ongoing campaign for world democracy.