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The 2024 Model Global Parliament will take place in the NSW Parliament House on 11 November.

MGP 2024 Management Committee: Associate Professor Chris Hamer, Dr Zeny Edwards, David Delos Reyes, Maini Pham, Charlene Cai, Maria Adriano, Jason Lijuwardi, Jeff Wong and Alex Zhuang

 

What is a Model Global Parliament? The participants act out or simulate a democratically constituted global forum in a parliamentary setting, debating motions on how to deal with global issues and problems. The members are assigned to represent 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.

We see it essentially as an educational platform for students to learn to think and talk together about global issues, using parliamentary procedures.   It is an imaginative creation, quite separate from the United Nations or any other international organization.  It 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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Patron: Peter Mousaferiadis

Founding Director: Pera Wells

A very successful series of model global parliaments was organized around Australia, on the initiative of Pera Wells. 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

This educational program is the principal focus of our sister organization, the Institute for Global Peace and Sustainable Governance or at www.workingtogetherforpeace.org.

 

MGP in session, Parliament House Melbourne 2013

Previous Model Global Parliaments:

 

1st Model Global Parliament, Melbourne 2012

2nd Model Global Parliament, Melbourne 2013

3rd Model Global Parliament, Canberra 2013

 

4th Model Global Parliament, Sydney 2013

 

7th Model Global Parliament, Sydney 2014

 

8th Model Global Parliament, Sydney 2015

9th Model Global Parliament, Sydney 2016

10th Model Global Parliament, Sydney 2017

11th Model Global Parliament, Sydney 2018

12th Model Global Parliament, Sydney 2022

13th Model Global Parliament, Sydney 2023

 

 

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