Declaration of the Global Symposium 2007

Drafted at City Montessori School, Lucknow India
By the members of World Movement for Global Democracy (WMGD)
December 7 - 10, 2007, Lucknow, India

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We, the participants at Global Symposium 2007 organized by the World Movement for Global Democracy (WMGD), in advancing the mission of establishing a New World Civilization, state that humanity is essentially one; and at large is an inter-religious, interdependent, interconnected, interplanetary and interracial community.

We ask that the agreements and outcomes of the major world conferences organized around the issues of children's survival, climate change, population, environment, sustainable development, women, etc. be fully funded and implemented because they are the expression of public opinion and global concerns.

However, we recognize that the challenges of Poverty, War, International terrorism, Violation of Human Rights, Pollution, Economic imbalances, Waste of resources, Illiteracy, and all of the other threats encountered at the global level cannot be solved by nation states alone.

Thus civil society must be involved in both implementation and in all international decision-making processes, given its rightful place of representing the people of the planet, to ensure that the people's rights - as enumerated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - are the prime objective, and not just a consequence, of international agreements.

The World Movement for Global Democracy believes that we must establish a structure of global governance as rapidly as feasibly possible that is democratized and empowered to deal with our global crises. One way to create this world federalist government would be through holding an Article 109 UN Charter Review Conference.

We should start however with the development of an International Commission for Generations Yet to Come, to act on behalf of the next generation. We must take steps to deeply involve the media in the promotion of peace and in the achievement of the Global Symposium's goals.

We call upon all nation states to implement and teach peace education, world citizenship, sustainable development, and global education curriculum in all schools throughout the world - in partnership with local, state, and international universities. City Montessori School should be an example to other schools as to what is possible in this regards. We support the efforts of Judge Weeramantry, recipient of the 2006 UNESCO Prize for Peace Education, to establish Peace Education Training and we invite all educators to participate in this.

Training and we invite all educators to participate in this. Non-governmental and civil society organizations must commit to work for the prevention of international terrorism, along with the protection of the human rights of the vast majority of marginalized people.

We call on the religious leaders of all major religions to join forces and commit their believers to build a world of solidarity, compassion, confidence and peace.

We call for the establishment of an active conflict resolution organization working for the prevention and nonviolent resolution of national and international conflicts. Both people and governments must promote reconciliation where wars have taken place.

We commit to working cooperatively with the World Judiciary to ensure that agreements on specific verification, compliance and enforcement measures for eliminating nuclear weapons are implemented and will work to hold all political leaders responsible and accountable for engaging in crimes of aggression, the illegality of war, and all other violations of international law.

We realize that it the responsibility of all peoples, and especially of all governments, to ensure that all peoples' basic human needs are met, as a fundamental human right, beginning by providing access to food, shelter, and a clean environment and then along with this information about global governance and education for all.

We call on the UN and all Member States to institute economic development peaceably through good cooperation with governments starting with poor countries. We must explore and develop alternative people-before-profit based economic policies and practices.

We proclaim to the people of the world that there is no reason that World Peace, Right Livelihood, and Prosperity could not be made available to all peoples; and we suggest that a target date for achieving the new order of world civilization should be by 2020.

It is with this in mind that we must wage a global campaign to implement the principles of natural law and to establish a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights can be fully realized.

In order to build a regenerative global community, the people and nations of the world must make a personal commitment to the earth and its people, fulfill their obligations under existing international agreements and world law, and support the implementation of a World Constitution with an international legally binding instrument on environment and development in spirit with the principles of the World Constitution.

We invite all peoples to join us in promoting and developing the World Movement for Global Democracy, in helping to organize and participate in the activities of the Breakthrough 2007-2012 initiative, and to forward the outcomes of the Global Symposium to all interested people and organizations around the world.

Let ours be a time remembered for the awakening of a new reverence for life, the firm resolve to regenerate a quickening of the struggle for justice and peace, respect for all peoples, and of joyful celebration.

Signed by the participants of the Global Symposium on the 10th day of December 2007 at City Montessori School (CMS), Lucknow, India