Andreas Bummel

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
Big Citizenship
GTI Forum
Big Citizenship
Contribution to GTI Forum Big History and Great Transition
May 2023

Revise the UN Charter
GTI Forum
Revise the UN Charter
December 2021

Globalizing the Challenge
GTI Forum
Globalizing the Challenge
November 2020

Global Identity Is Real
GTI Forum
Global Identity Is Real
Contribution to GTI Forum Think Globally, Act Locally?
August 2019

Roundtable contribution on World Political Party? - Andreas Bummel
Roundtable
Contribution to GTI Roundtable Party Time?
February 2019
An essential basis for a globalized politics would be establishing a democratic global parliament.

Roundtable contribution on Nuclear Abolition - Andreas Bummel
Roundtable
Contribution to GTI Roundtable How to Ban the Bomb
August 2018
The urgent need before us is to transform the United Nations into a democratic, legitimate, and effective system for global security.

Roundtable contribution on Global Government - Andreas Bummel
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The Westphalian state-centric system has become hopelessly outdated in a time of deep interdependence, and shared nuclear and climate risks.

Toward Global Political Integration: Time for a World Parliamentary Assembly
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.