10 Oct
Global Citizenship Hubs, Global Citizenship Insights, News

Building Leaders for a Sustainable World: Inside the Future Makers Lab

Global Goals Week is an annual initiative that brings together governments, businesses, civil society, academia, and the United Nations system to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. Celebrated as a week of action, awareness, and accountability, it highlights the importance of global collaboration in addressing the world’s most pressing challenges, including poverty, inequality, climate change, and social justice. The week provides a platform to share innovations, mobilize communities, and reflect on progress made towards achieving the SDGs, particularly in alignment with the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Week.Global Goals Week 2025, held from September 19 to 28, was a...

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07 Sep
Global Citizenship Insights, Global Citizenship Learning Program, News

The Most Sought-After Skills for Global Citizenship in Today’s World

Global citizenship is not a fixed identity but a dynamic practice shaped by the skills we cultivate to engage with a complex and unequal world. In an era defined by rapid globalization, political polarization, and shrinking civic spaces, the ability to think critically, act responsibly, and collaborate across difference has never been more urgent. Beyond ideals of empathy and solidarity, global citizenship requires concrete competencies that enable individuals and communities to sustain meaningful change. From reimagining diversity and inclusion, to building financial resilience, to strengthening intercultural competence, the skills explored through the Global Citizenship Learning Program highlight the foundations of...

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29 Aug
Events, Global Citizenship Insights, Global Citizenship Learning Program, News

Building Future-Ready Global Citizens: How AI is Shaping Leadership at the Global Citizenship Learning Program

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has swiftly moved from futuristic concept to everyday reality, dramatically transforming how we learn, work, and address global challenges. From diagnosing diseases to optimizing climate models, AI expands human potential, but alongside these benefits come complex risks: algorithmic bias, deep-fakes that erode trust, significant environmental costs of high-performance computing, and ethical quandaries in how tech is developed and deployed. To lead effectively in this evolving landscape, tomorrow’s leaders need more than curiosity, they require hands-on skills, ethical awareness, critical thinking, and collaboration.At the 2025 Global Citizenship Convention (GCC) in Jena, the Global Citizenship Learning Program (GCLP) guided...

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31 Jul
Global Citizenship Insights, Global Citizenship Learning Program, News, Senior Fellow Initiatives

From Fellowship to Leadership: A Life of Public Service and Global Connection

In a recent conversation, the Melton Foundation Executive Office connected with Carlos Rilling Tenorio, Senior Melton Fellow and Executive Director in the Office of the President at the University of Chile. A lifelong champion of social equity and global citizenship, Carlos leads strategic initiatives in university governance, institutional planning, and international cooperation.His impact extends beyond national borders. He represented the University of Chile in the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) and was selected for the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), the U.S. Department of State’s premier professional exchange program. Whether contributing to Chile’s 2023 constitutional process or fostering global...

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27 Mar
Awareness and Advocacy, Global Citizenship Insights, Global Solvers Accelerator Projects, News, Senior Fellow Initiatives

Scaling Deep: A Systems Approach to Social Impact Leadership

In today’s rapidly evolving world, leadership in the social impact space is undergoing a profound transformation. A 2017 study by FSG and the Collective Impact Forum found that over 80% of successful social change efforts involve cross-sector collaboration and shared leadership structures. Moreover, systems thinking, empathy, and the ability to work across differences are emerging as the most critical competencies for 21st-century changemakers. In this reality, leadership is no longer about commanding from the front; it's about asking better questions, facilitating dialogue, and enabling sustainable, community-led transformation.Peter Mukuka, Founder and CEO of Men of Honour, embodies this shift. His organization...

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22 Mar
Awareness and Advocacy, Global Citizenship Insights, Global Citizenship Learning Program, News

Leadership Beyond the Spotlight: Cultivating Global Citizens for Lasting Change

In conversations about leadership, the focus often falls on bold decision-making, visible impact, and large-scale transformation. But real leadership, the leadership that creates lasting change is often much quieter. It’s found in small actions, in empowering others, and in recognizing that change is not always about taking charge but about stepping back when necessary.Research increasingly supports this shift in perspective. A 2023 McKinsey & Company report on leadership effectiveness found that the most successful leaders in complex, uncertain environments were those who fostered psychological safety, encouraged team autonomy, and focused on collaborative problem-solving rather than command-and-control approaches.For Sophia Kaleta, a...

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25 Aug
Global Citizenship Insights, News

Creating Peace : Another World of Care

Following the escalating crisis that is being precipitated upon Afghanistan, human rights at large, and especially the rights of women and several other vulnerable groups are critically threatened. As provincial capitals fall, they take with them the aspirations and hopes of all, including those of several children and youth. On the 15th of August, 2021, Kabul capitulated to the Taliban, all but ensuring the return of their rule and sealing the fate of the Afghan masses. With seismic developments and humanitarian tragedies unfolding right before our eyes, narrations of real-life experiences emanating from troubled corners cast a cold shroud on...

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16 Aug
Global Citizenship Insights, News

Global Citizenship: Foundations for an Interconnected World

On 9 July 2021, during the first week of the United Nations High-Level Political Forum, the Cluster for Global Citizenship of the NGO Major Group hosted a parallel event entitled “Global Citizenship: Foundations for an Interconnected World”. The event was a fast-paced 90-minute session featuring four impulse speakers who created context and stimulated discussion, and engaging musicians to set us in the proper mind-frame, lively break-out sessions for open dialogue, and a Mentimeter survey to help coalesce the knowledge. Over 70 participants joined the discussion from all corners of the world, and we are grateful to everyone for their contributions....

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01 Mar
Global Citizenship Insights, News

Global Citizenship in India – A Potpourri of Cultures

The historical antecedents of global citizenship in India is perhaps best illustrated by the following verse, found in the Maha Upanishad, a text whose origins can be traced back to 500 CE.“The world is a family One is a relative, the other stranger,say the small-minded.The entire world is a family,live the magnanimous.”This verse in Chapter 6 of the text, better known in its abbreviated form as “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam”, is one of the most profound and oldest expressions of the intention to mold a global community.It is reasonable to conclude that global citizenship exists, and has existed, side by side with...

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13 Feb
Global Citizenship Insights, News

Education and Global Citizenship – A Vital Link

Acquiring global citizenship requires a certain level of educational competency. If we are serious about nurturing and scaling this competency, we need to focus on bringing these concepts into the classrooms. Instead, the spotlight is currently on building parallel delivery systems or remedial programs. To solve this imbalance, using educational tools and aligning our teaching paradigm with the values of global citizenship are novel ways of propagating agenerational shift steeped in universal ethics.Global citizenship, though, is not a subject that can be taught like physics or biology. The dispositions of individuals to be global citizens is not an exact science....

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23 Jan
Global Citizenship Insights, News

Global Citizenship: Navigating through Challenges and Barriers

At the Melton Foundation, we believe a global changemaker's journey is multifaceted: Experiential, systemic, and integrated. However, when we discuss hurdles to overcome in order to create a united front, three broad issues come to the fore: Challenge #1: The first one relates to the complexity associated with the narrative. We generally find identity-shifting narratives to be challenging or unacceptable. Most discussions appear to be restricted to sophisticated and exclusive circles. The discourse on global citizenship remains confined to intellectual discussions amongst a relatively small number of people, giving it a halo of elitism. The push for the expansion of the...

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19 Sep
Global Citizenship Insights, News

Your Guide to being a Global Citizen!

If you have said yes to one or more of the above questions, global citizenship beckons you! Through our fellowship and collaborative programs, we promote and enable global citizenship as a way for individuals and organizations to work together across boundaries of place and identity to solve challenges in an interconnected world. Today's greatest challenges, from climate change to poverty, inequality to displacement, natural resource depletion to overpopulation, are global in nature, and interconnected. At the Melton Foundation, we believe that the problems currently facing humanity can only be solved by working together across industries, sectors, cultures, and geographical boundaries...

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