GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP
increasing aid is only one of the
Citizenship is associated with
rights and obligation, it links the
individual to the state. It also has to
do with our attitude.
Caecilia Johanna Van Peski define
global citizenship as a moral and
ethical disposition that can guide the
understanding of individuals or
groups of local and global context and
remind them of their relative
responsibilities with various
communities.
Global citizenship does not
automatically entail a single attitude
and a particular value with
globalization because there are many
globalization.
In one broad view, globalization
failed to deliver its promises. The so-
called bottom billion lacks
infrastructure and has been
disenfranchised.
Enemies resist globalization
especially when it comes to global
economy and global governance.
There are three approaches to global
economic resistance:
 Trade Protectionism-involves
the systematic government
intervention in foreign trade
through tariffs and non-tariff
barriers in order to encourage
domestic producers and deter
their foreign competitors.
 Fair trade-a counter to
neoliberal “free trade” principles.
Fair trade aims at a more moral
and equitable global economic
system in which, for instance,
price is not set by the market;
instead, it is negotiated
transparently by both producers
and consumers.
 Helping the bottom billion-
many measures that are required.
International norms and
standards can be adapted to the
needs of the bottom billion. The
reduction of trade barriers would
also reduce the economic
marginalization of these people
and their nations.
When it comes to political
globalization, increased accountability
and transparency are the key issues.
Like globalization, resistance to
globalization is multiple, complex,
contradictory, and ambiguous. This
movement also has the potential to
emerge as the new public sphere,
which may uphold progressive values
such as autonomy, democracy, peace,
ecological sustainability, and social
justice. These forces of resistance are
themselves product of globalization
and can be seen as globalization from
below.
World Social Forum -
"Another World is Possible"
-yearly summit of anti-
globalization movement that attracts
an average of 100,000 people around
the world
-dynamic, open space, and
providing social movements and
citizens from around the world trade
unionists, intellectuals, farmers,
women groups, youth, etc. with an
opportunity to meet and exchange
ideas
-opposed to the values of
neoliberalism as defended by
international institutions,
multinational corporations, and even
by some government
 The World Social Forum (WSF) is
centered on addressing the lack of
democracy in economic and political
affairs (Fisher and Ponniah, 2003.)

In any case, given that there is no

world government, the idea of global
citizenship demands the creation of
rights and obligations. Moreover,
fulfilling the promises of globalization
and the solution to the problems of
the contemporary world does not lie
on single entity or individual, but on
citizens, the community, and the
different organizations in societies.

The dynamics of globalization

demands the efforts of the whole array
of inter-governmental organizations
such as the United Nations and the
World Bank, International NGOs like
Green Peace and Amnesty
International; and the citizen
initiatives and community action
groups that reach above the nation-
state level like the World Social Forum
and Occupying Movement.