Model Global Parliament Program

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Founding Director: Pera Wells

Pera Wells is a former Australian diplomat, and former Secretary-General of the World Federation of United Nations Associations.  

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DIRECTOR: Dr Zeny Edwards OAM 

LEADS: David Delos Reyes, Jason Lijuwardi

 

IGPSG MODEL GLOBAL PARLIAMENT COMMITTEE: Associate Professor Chris Hamer, David Delos Reyes, Maini Pham, Charlene Cai, Maria Adriano, Jason Lijuwardi, Jeff Wong and Alex Zhuang

 

About the Model Global Parliament Program

A series of model global parliaments were initially organized around Australia on the initiative of Pera Wells. They continue to be a great success, and remain very popular among schools. The aims are:

• To publicize the idea of democratic global governance

• To give students practical experience in standing up and debating some of the vital issues concerning our global village

• To make students think about global issues, and how to deal with them.

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The Model Global Parliament simulates a democratically constituted global forum for both geopolitical regions and existing globally significant non-governmental networks to work together in identifying global problems and seeking practical and attainable solutions to them.

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IGPSG sees it essentially as an educational platform for students to learn to think and talk together about global issues, using parliamentary procedures. Following the process and format of world organisations  and parliaments throughout the world, the MGP is intended to enable students to explore new ways of addressing the evident gaps in democratic global governance arrangements and to present, contest and enact ideas about how to shape the future for the benefit of a better world for all living things.

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