Thinking about Global Citizenship

The following is a short list of key resources that might inform our evolving understanding of global citizenship. Rather than comprehensive, the list below is intended to just be a start. Thus, we welcome suggestions of additional resources from a wide range of historical, geographic, and ideological perspectives. Please email your ideas to Pete Morris, the Faculty Leader for Global Citizenship.

Landmark Documents

• Magna Carta (England, 1215)
• The Declaration of Independence (U.S.) (Thomas Jefferson and the Continental Congress, 1776)
• Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (National Assembly of France, 1789)
• The Rights of Man (Thomas Paine, 1791-92)
• Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations (United Nations, 1945)
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations, 1948)
• EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (European Union, 2000)
• The Earth Charter (Earth Charter Commission, 2000)
• Charter 08 (China) (Liu Xiaobo et al., 2008)

Additional Resources

• Global Citizenship at the University of British Columbia
• Taso G. Lagos, Global Citizenship--Towards a Definition, from the Global Citizenship Project of the University of Washington's Center for Communication and Civic Engagement
• Wikipedia on Global Citizenship