World Citizens Manual

Since everything in life is interconnected, world citizenship spans both political activity and all other aspects of human experience.

Introduction

This Manual provides a basic tool kit for world citizens. There are many interpretations of world citizenship. I have chosen the interpretation, which clarifies our relationship with world problems and empowers us to tackle them at their very root. This Manual also shows how you can use the United Nations as a powerful instrument to make, build and keep the peace and as a mouthpiece to broadcast ideas worldwide, that benefit all.

The chapter references, embedded in the text, relate to the novel, Samenzwering, Samenspel, published in Dutch by Ankh Hermes in October, 2001. This novel describes the experiential side of the actions listed here and shows how these can be applied to a variety of life's situations, including building a global community, based on unity in diversity. This novel is being submitted in English (working title: Spark!) for publication in other languages. If you know of a publisher in your country, who might be interested, we should be grateful if you would contact the author. Also, please send us your address if you would be interested in knowing when the novel, Spark! is available in your language.

For those wishing to create effective world citizens groups, to introduce their ideas via the UN worldwide, or who wish to explore ways to support the governments of all countries who are together looking to solve our common problems, talks and workshops are available in English, Dutch, German, and French. The objective of the workshops is to find the types of activities that uniquely suit the members of each individual group. See the contact address.

This World Citizens Manual is available in English, Dutch and German  
 

What Is A World Citizen?

As World Citizens, we acknowledge that who we are is deeply interwoven with other species, nations, cultures, religions and our fellow human beings. In fact, in our interdependent world we are all world citizens whether we realize it or not.

As conscious world citizens, we recognize that the only way in which we can all come into our own is if there is a democracy of species, nations and people, based on the rule of law, and if human laws are in harmony with the laws that govern the rest of the Natural Order. It is necessary as a world citizen therefore to reawaken our intuitive connection to the promptings of the Natural Order. This involves resolving conflicts peacefully, for these tend to block this connection, and learning to relate peacefully and lovingly to all aspects of our worlds.

Once our intuitive connection to 'All That Is' is freed, we experience ourselves as a part of a glorious unity that has always existed but which we did not always consciously perceive (See chapters 9, 12, 15 and 40). Once we are aware of this unity, our experience of conflict is transformed into one of 'unity in diversity'. This is a strong basis from which to achieve peaceful conflict resolution and reattune to the promptings of the Natural Order.

Besides obeying natural law, world citizens share a sense of responsibility for the global community that in today's interdependent world is attempting to emerge. To nurture this community into being, we must learn how to input governments worldwide through the UN, the only global political forum we have. For at the UN most global strategies are developed.

Since humanity is interdependent both with other species and with other systems of the Natural Order harmful actions tend to boomerang and hurt both others and ourselves. As a conscious world citizen, I therefor choose to act in ways that (where possible) benefit All That Is: I choose all-win over win/lose actions.

This Manual looks at four levels upon which, as world citizens we can work.

1. Evolving Personal Consciousness

2. Mastering Peaceful Conflict Resolution<

by learning to introduce unity into conflict situations

3. Introducing Education for World Citizenship into Education

• Formal Education
• Non-Formal Education (Applying All-Win Standards to the media and corporate advertizing)

4. Nurturing The Evolution Of A Global Community Attuned To The Natural Order And Coordinated By The UN

by developing a global network of action groups to lobby both for and in harmony with natural law and the All-Win Principle. The complete book looks into each of these areas...

We are all World Citizens

World Citizenship spans all aspects of our lives: our relationship with ourselves, other people, the world arena, which until recently was inaccessible to most, and the Natural Order.

As we meet the challenge of consciously becoming world citizens, we find that life becomes more vibrant. A new sense of meaning suffuses our lives as we make our contribution to our Planet, one that is uniquely ours to make.