About WCA and AWC
What is WCA?
What is the meaning of World Citizenship?
What is the meaning of World Citizenship Day?
What are the role and responsibilities of being a World Citizen?
What is WCA?
The World Citizens Assembly (WCA) is one of the important events held by the Association of World Citizens (AWC). Several World Citizens Assemblies have been held in various cities around the world, including Paris, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Osaka, Los Angeles, and New York City. AWC representatives from around the world held discussions and arrived at conclusions in the Assemblies, and took action to promote the goal of AWC.
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What is the meaning of World Citizenship?
World Citizenship is people working together to build a better world for the 21st century, people adopting a new responsibility to secure our common fate. Citizenship denotes people working together and having responsibility. We are all creatures of our earth together, but citizenship takes it a bit farther, necessitating adopting a responsibility to work with people all around the world, to overcome wars of the past century, to abolish war, to build the United Nations to be more effective and stronger, to eradicate poverty, and to ensure to build the culture of peace to replace the culture of war and violence that has dominated for so long now.
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What is the meaning of World Citizenship Day?
The purpose of World Citizenship Day is to have a celebration within specific cities, where people can come together to celebrate the meaning of World Citizenship. Initially we thought that should take place on the first day of spring each year. But we are now willing to hold it at any time, depending on the varied situation within each community and city. There have also been requests from various cities in Africa and Europe, wanting to adopt World Citizenship Day.
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What are the role and responsibilities of being a World Citizen?
Anyone can become a World Citizen, as far as they are willing to adopt the concept of working with other people, countries across national borders, governments, the United Nations, international institutions, all for the purpose of building a more peaceful and safer world. That's the real concept of World Citizenship. It's one key element that can overcome differences in religion, of politics, and of race. It's the one element that rises above them all; that's why it is so essential to build an international peace movement around the concept of World Citizenship.
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