Introduction

• Key concepts [1] for a Global Common Wealth:

Introduction by James Quilligan: Beyond State Capitalism: The Commons Economy in our Lifetimes. [2]

1. Establishing Global Common Goods and a Commons Reserve Currency
2. The Co-Governance and Co-Production of the Commons through Commons Trusts on the basis of Social Charters
3. Replacing the scarcity-engineering of neoliberal markets by the abundance engineering of the commons, see the Abundance - Typology and the Wealth Typology
4. The context for policy change: Four Future Scenarios for the Global System, from: GLOBAL MEGACRISIS. A Survey of Four Scenarios on a Pessimism-Optimism Axis. By William Halal and Michael Marien.
5. Mark Whitaker's book, Toward a Bioregional State, proposes a global Bioregional Democracy based on Civic Democratic Institutions and a Commodity Ecology

Topics

Global Commons and Participatory International Systems

1. Global Commons and Common Sense. Jorge Buzaglo. real-world economics review, issue no. 51 [3] : policy proposals for a global governance of planetary commons
2. Four Principles and Corollaries of Network Society and the New International Governance. By by Alexander Schellong, Philipp Mueller. [4]
3. Hilary Cottam on Participatory Global Governance Systems: Winter 2010 (Vol.XXXI. No 4) edition of the Harvard International Review. [5]
4. Philipp Mueller on Planetary Public Policy‎ and Open Statecraft
5. Steve Waddell on Global Action Networks
6. Developing the Meta Services for the Eco-Social Economy: on developing a framework for an eco-social economy - includings its arrangements to manage natural commons. Text proposed by Feasta, Ireland. By Brian Davey with the assistance of John Jopling.
7. In his book, Occupy World Street, Ross Jackson proposes the creation of a Gaian League.

Institutional Proposals for Global Governance

• Concert of Democracies
• Gaian League
• International Simultaneous Policy Organization
• World Future Council

People and Visions

Alex Evans

1. Shooting the Rapids: "argues that the key challenge is to join up the dots between the institutions, processes and actors that we have now. Part of this task involves expanding the scope of multilateralism to engage much more intensively with non-state actors"
2. Multilateralism for an Age of Scarcity: paper uses the shared operating system / shared awareness / shared platforms framework (follow-up of Shooting the Rapids)

James Greyson

See: Seven Policy Switches for strategic change on a planetary level

James Quilligan

1. Toward a Commons-based Framework for Global Negotiations
2. People Sharing Resources. Toward a New Multilateralism of the Global Commons. James Bernard Quilligan Kosmos Journal, Fall | Winter 2009: this article frames what a global commons-based policy and governance structure should be.

Towards Open Civil Societies

• See the work of Steve Waddell on Global Action Networks

• Nora McKeon: Civil Society and the United Nations: Legitimating Global Governance-Whose Voice. (Zed 2009).

Key Resources

Key Articles

On the overall framework of a Commons and Civil Society oriented global policy and governance framework that insures sustainability:

• James Bernard Quilligan. People Sharing Resources. Toward a New Multilateralism of the Global Commons. Published in Kosmos Journal, Fall | Winter 2009

• James Quilligan on Multilateralism 2.0 and the Role of the State in the Commons