Andreas Bummel
Andreas Bummel (*9. February 1976 in Cape Town) is co-founder and Director of Democracy Without Borders[1] and of the international campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly.
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From 1998 to 2008 he was coordinator for UN reform issues of the Society for Threatened Peoples, one of Germany’s leading human rights organizations and since 1998 he is a member of the Council of the World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy in New York.
In 2012, he was elected as a fellow by the World Academy of Art and Science in recognition of his work on a world parliament and in 2015 the Society for Threatened Peoples awarded him the association’s honorary membership.
In 2018, he authored a major book on the history, relevance and implementation of a world parliament (with co-author Jo Leinen) titled "A World Parliament: Governance and Democracy in the 21st Century".[2]
Publications include
- Toward Global Political Integration: Time for a World Parliamentary Assembly, Great Transition Initiative, August 2016 [3]
- A World Parliament and the Transition from International Law to World Law, Cadmus Journal, Vol. 2, no. 3, October 2014[4]
- Developing International Democracy – For a Parliamentary Assembly at the United Nations. A strategy paper of the Committee for a Democratic U.N., 2010[5]
References
- Homepage Democracy without Borders
- Andreas Bummel, Jo Leinen: A World Parliament: Governance and Democracy in the 21st Century. Democracy Without Borders, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-942282-13-0
- Toward Global Political Integration: Time for a World Parliamentary Assembly on greattransition.org
- A World Parliament and the Transition from International Law to World Law on cadmusjournal.org
- UNPA Campaign Strategy - PDF on unpacampain.org