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Mailbox of World Citizens

My suggestions for the Congress, in a nutshell, were:

1) We need more financial resources if we want to be more effective. and we need a higher public profile, e.g.

• set up an association for activists which charges a regular annual subscription, even if it only includes a small fraction of the Registry members;
• set up a website allowing easy online subscription via credit card, to recruit more active members and publicize the group;
• set up a permanently manned office, maybe together with another group. Paid worker(s) plus volunteers;
• fund-raising activities: merchandise? Events? e.g. UN Day, 'Gary Davis Day'? High-profile Public talks and discussions (e.g. Gorbachev, Giscard d'Estaing, Ustinov, etc.)?
• study how other organizations do it, e.g. in USA
• brochures and pamphlets;
• set up a Prize, e.g. the Sydney Peace Prize has been very successful here (needs sponsorship)
• set up educational initiatives, courses seminar series, etc., employ 'interns' - c.f. US organizations

2) We should collaborate more, e.g. with World Federalists Association, Association to Unite the Democracies, Federal Union, etc. (websites: see p. 218 of my book - no longer up to date - a Google search will find them) We all agree (roughly speaking) on the eventual aim of a democratic world federation; the only disagreements are over how to get there.

I actually agree with the AUD: we shouldn't aim to be universal from the start, but start iina small and limited ways with a 'core group' of progressive nations, as Jean Monnet did with the European Coal and Steel Community at the start of the European adventure, and then build up from there.

One possible way would be to combine NATO and the OECD, and open them to outside membership, to act as the 'peacekeeping' arm of the democratic community of nations, plus coordinating trade relations, aid and development. Their structure could be remodelled as an embryonic world federation, with Council, Commission, Court, Assembly, etc. as Jean Nonnet did. There is already a North Atlantic Assembly in place.

Of course, we would simultaneously support the ongoing 'democratization' of the UN.

Well, enough rambling on. Regarding courses at UNSW, if you go to www.student.unsw.edu.au/handbook, and look up Politics and International Relations, you will find a list of subjects they offer. Thinking about it, i"m not sure if it's possible to enrol for single courses, but I'll enquire. It should'n't be hard to just sit in.

Chris Hamer