Andreas Bummel

Andreas Bummel is co-founder and Executive Director of Democracy Without Borders, an international civil society group promoting global democratic governance. He coordinates the Campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, which advocates democratic representation of the world’s citizens at the UN and has been endorsed by 1,500 sitting and former lawmakers from over 100 countries. He is co-author of A World Parliament: Governance and Democracy in the 21st Century and A United Nations Parliamentary Assembly: A Policy Review of Democracy Without Borders.

GTI Contributions

GTI Forum

Big Citizenship
Contribution to GTI Forum Big History and Great Transition

May 2023

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GTI Forum

Revise the UN Charter
Contribution to GTI Forum An Earth Constitution: Has Its Time Come?

December 2021

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GTI Forum

Globalizing the Challenge
Contribution to GTI Forum Universal Basic Income: Has the Time Come?

November 2020

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GTI Forum

Global Identity Is Real
Contribution to GTI Forum Think Globally, Act Locally?

August 2019

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Roundtable

Contribution to GTI Roundtable Party Time?
An exchange on the essay A World Political Party: The Time Has Come

February 2019

An essential basis for a globalized politics would be establishing a democratic global parliament.

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Roundtable

Contribution to GTI Roundtable How to Ban the Bomb
An exchange on the essay Nuclear Abolition: The Road from Armageddon to Transformation

August 2018

The urgent need before us is to transform the United Nations into a democratic, legitimate, and effective system for global security.

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Roundtable

Contribution to GTI Roundtable Global Government
An exchange on the essay Global Government Revisited

October 2017

The Westphalian state-centric system has become hopelessly outdated in a time of deep interdependence, and shared nuclear and climate risks.

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Viewpoint

Toward Global Political Integration: Time for a World Parliamentary Assembly

August 2016

We will need a democratic world government to adequately address shared planetary risks and opportunities in this century. A critical strategic step toward that end would be the formation of a global parliamentary assembly.