A new free online course on Global Civics has been launched recently by the Global Civics Academy.

Find out more from the Global Civics Academy below:

The course covers issues ranging from climate change to pandemics. Students will examine which centripetal forces are pushing us together, and how they can be managed. The course will survey our options to manage our increasing global interdependence, and will provide the tools for each student to come up with their own version of a global civics.

Lecturers include Hakan Altinay of the Brookings Institution, Amar Bhattacharya of G24, Gareth Evans of Australian National University, Mark Harrison of University of Oxford, Thaddeus Metz of University of Johannesburg, Branko Milanovic of the World Bank, Luis Moreno Ocampo of New York University, Dani Rodrik of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Mohamed Razeen Sally of National University of Singapore, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber of Potsdam Institute, Dingli Shen of Fudan University, Javier Solana of ESADE, and Ethan Zuckerman of MIT.

Students will have the option to take the course for credit or audit the course. Both options are free. Each year, a small group of exceptionally successful students will be invited to join the Global Civics Academy as fellows. For more information, visit www.globalcivics.net.