The Center for War/Peace Studies works to support the World Federalist Movement and the Coalition for the International Criminal Court to replace the law of force with the force of international law, directly applicable to individuals.

We are part of the community of Non Governmental Organizations associated with the United Nations who support the goals and programs of the UN.  We work to give the UN additional legitimacy and capacity to ensure peace and human rights for all people worldwide.

Specific programs of the Center call for the transformation of the United Nations to increase the authority of the General Assembly and give it additional powers to take binding decisions on major issues of world concern, and to increase the legitimacy of the Security Council so that it will represent all peoples and all nations. We ask UN member states to amend the UN Charter to have weighted voting in the GA and weighted, balanced, regional representation in the Security Council.

Our campaign for weighted decision making is being carried to the foreign ministries of key UN member states worldwide by a team of “citizen ambassadors” coordinated by the Vice Chairman of CWPS, Myron Kronisch, a retired trial lawyer and a leader of Citizens for Global Solutions. We ask governments to seriously consider introducing weighted voting on major global issues as a way to give the UN the power it needs to bring peace and human rights to all. Mike Kronisch believes this would bring legislative power to the UN General Assembly without taking away the value of legal sovereign equality for all 192 UN member states. He believes such additional power in the GA would make it the world’s legislature.

We also support the establishment of a UN Parliamentary Assembly and the transformation of the UN to permit greater participation of civil society to broaden the base of UN decisions and action. And we work for the active support of the International Criminal Court by individuals worldwide. Our Executive Director, Lucy Law Webster, believes that full implementation of the Statute of the ICC would make it possible to apprehend individuals who commit crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide so that the rule of force and violence would be replaced by the force of world law.

These efforts are supported by the Board of Directors and the Advisory Board of the Center for War/Peace Studies. We are also proud of the work of Dr. Juan Federer who works with various democratic leaders in Africa to take action in support of good governance, justice and human rights in countries where rights are violated by injustice and conflict.

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The Center for War/Peace Studies www.cwps.org was incorporated in the United States in 1977 as a not-for-profit 501(c)3 think tank working to transform the United Nations into an international political and legal system that will make it possible to protect human rights and abolish war.