What is World Federalist Movement (WFM)?
The World Federalist Movement (WFM) is an organization of citizens with over 30,000 individual supporters, affiliated through 24 national organizations. WFM also works with hundreds of organizations through networks and coalitions around various campaigns related to international justice, human rights and reform of the United Nations. Back to top How did WFM start? Numerous world federation plans and organizations emerged in the 1930’s and during WWII. WFM’s history formally began in in 1946 in Luxembourg and in 1947 in Montreux, Switzerland when many national and international peace movements agreed to form a ‘coalition’ world movement for world federation. The movement was formed in large part to press for the reform of the then new UN Charter to one that could achieve the first goal of the UN, ‘to save future generations from the scourge of war.’ The founding meetings engaged in intense debate over the issue of whether the establishment of a European (regional) federation should tak
