The future of the world clearly does not lie in the west, nor the east – but in the collaboration between the East and the West for a more peaceful and egalitarian planet.
In this regard, The Commonwealth as a political association of states can play a huge role. GCF seeks to reinvent that role. In the recent years, the Commonwealth has graduated from being a platform showcasing the British empire’s imperialist power to a symbol of new age globalisation. The leaders of the Commonwealth are now the rising economies spread across Asia, Africa and the Pacific with approximately 2.2 billion people and 60% of them under 30 years of age. This Global Citizen Forum event in London will seek to focus on Re-energising the organisation by Re-establishing it on the global map as a strong association, the role of Global Citizens in the success of the Commonwealth and encourage information and resource sharing within this new ‘bloc’.