Preparation for the 6th Sydney Model Global Parliament

Draft Resolutions
Each group at the Model Global Parliament will be invited to submit one draft resolution ahead of time. We strongly recommend that participants make use of the following resources in constructing their submissions, and informing the debate on the day.

Sample Questions

To get you thinking, here are some sample questions that we've prepared on each of the three topics: nuclear weapons, rights, and global governance. These points are only suggestions. Groups are encouraged to come up with their own topics for motions.

1/Nuclear Weapons:
  1. Should Australia sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons?
  2. Should Australia support the holding of a High-Level Conference on Nuclear Disarmament in 2019?
  3. Should the nuclear deal with Iran be supported, or scrapped?
  4. Should Australia establish a repository for high-level nuclear waste, and offer to accept waste from other countries at a suitable price?
  5. Should Australia build enrichment facilities for nuclear fuel?
  6. Should Australia build nuclear power stations, to provide baseload power without adding to carbon emissions?

2/Human Rights:
  1. What should be done about Australia's treatment of refugees in offshore detention centres?
  2. Should Australia do more to aid and/or resettle refugees worldwide?
  3. What should be done to eliminate human trafficking?

3/Global Governance:
  1. Should the Campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly be supported?
  2. What reforms of the UN might you suggest at the UN2020 meetings in 2020, the 75th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations?
  3. What improvements in global governance would you suggest at the Paris Peace Forum in November 2018, to deal with the pressing global problems which confront us all as global citizens?
  4. What more should Australia do to enhance international security and/or its own security?
  5. Should Australia join NATO, as suggested some years ago by ex-Prime Minister Aznar of Spain, in order to enhance cooperation in gathering intelligence?
  6. What role should/could a global parliament play in maintaining a peace-keeping force, ready to be deployed to conflict-prone situations around the world?
  7. What role should/could a global parliament play in focussing attention on the role of environmental challenges, such as water shortages, in exacerbating causes of armed conflict?

Rules of Parliamentary Procedure 


Warm up for the MGP

Suggestions on preparation

  • Focus on one or two topics so as not to become too overwhelmed or fragmented
  • Pose a problem to yourself stemming from agenda topics.  Ask yourself:  how can we possibly come up with a global solution that deals with this issue?  
  • Take a position and debate individually and with your group and think about the presentation you’d make to the parliament.  What motions can you derive from this?  The aim is discourse and debate with the purpose of producing outcomes or discussion points that require greater global collaboration  
  • The aim in global collaboration and interdependence.
  • Stay informed on current issues:
    o   Al Jazeera
    o   NPR news
    o   Le Monde Diplomatique
    o   The Economist
    o   Foreign Affairs
    o   Foreign Policy 
    o   China Daily  
    o   etc.
  • Reference existing global documents:
    o   UN charter
    o   ICCPR
    o   ICESCR
    o   Millenium Goals
    o   The Global Compact
    o   Interdependence Movement
    o   UDHR
    o   ICJ declarations
    o   Geneva Convention
    o   WTO
          ·   TRIPS agreement
          ·    AoA
          ·    GATT


Click on the link to get the free access to Prof. Christopher Hamer's book "A GLOBAL PARLIAMENT - Principles of World Federation" http://phys.unsw.edu.au/COURSES/GENS4008/book.html
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Some useful links

Independent Media Centre Australia article entry:

http://indymedia.org.au/2012/04/02/bob-brown-on-global-democracy-and-world-parliament 

Bob Brown advocates a global parliament: “I have trust in the common sense of seven billion people on the planet.”

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http://blog.unpacampaign.org/2013/01/bob-brown-advocates-a-global-parliament-i-have-trust-in-the-common-sense-of-seven-billion-people-on-the-planet/

The Web we want campaign:

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Live News Feeds:

Live Al Jazeera feed:
Live N.P.R. news feed:
Live Le Monde Diplomatique feed: (French)