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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
Contribution to GTI Forum Big History and Great Transition
May 2023
GTI Forum
GTI Forum
GTI Forum
Contribution to GTI Forum Think Globally, Act Locally?
August 2019
Roundtable

Contribution to GTI Roundtable Time for a World Political Party?

February 2019
An essential basis for a globalized politics would be establishing a democratic global parliament.
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 to GTI Roundtable Global Government Revisited

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The Westphalian state-centric system has become hopelessly outdated in a time of deep interdependence, and shared nuclear and climate risks.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