Working Groups
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WHGNetwork working groups are organized by Citizen and Planetizen members. Their works seeks to answer Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s question, "Where do we go from here?"
To learn how you can organize or join one of our working groups, click the link at the bottom of this page.
Diaspora Investment Group
The Diaspora Investment Group (DIG) works to advance investment is development projects that foster economic development and growth in under-served and emerging markets and economies.
Director: Edmund Folefac
Founding President, The Ohio State University, USA
Youth Engagement Working Group
The Youth Engagement (YE) working group comprises a diverse membership of youth (ages 15 -25) and other age cohorts interested in the issues that youth wish to address. The Group facilitates youth engagement through mentorship, knowledge-building, and co-curricular activities.
Director: Keshav Gupta
Founding President, The Dais, Delhi, India
Global Strategic Litigation and Advocacy on Racism and Social Justice Working Group
The Global Strategic Litigation and Advocacy (GSLA) working group works to organize a global network of individuals, groups, and organizations to develop impactful legal and advocacy strategies to eliminate structural racial disparities in state and local governments, business enterprises, and civic life.
Director: Nicholas Marcus Thompson
Founding President, Black Class Action Secretariat Toronto, Canada
Education Working Group
The Educations (ED) group gathers and disseminates vital knowledge and information to empower WHGN members to advance their nonviolent initiatives.
Director: Dr. Caroline Whitcomb
Educator and Teacher Educator, Augusta, Georgia, USA
Gandhi’s Writings Working Group
The working group on Mohandas K. Gandhi’s writings includes academics, activists, and others interested in critically examining the Mahatma’s writings.
Director: Douglas T. McGetchin, Ph.D.
Professor of History and Associate Director
Peace, Justice, and Human Rights Initiative, Florida Atlanta University, USA
Good Governance and Leadership Working Group
The Good Governance and Leadership (GGL) working group works to develop young leaders who seek to serve at the highest levels of state and local government.
Director: Milton Kambula
Peace Advocate and Special Representative of the President of Uganda.
Immigration, Refugee, and Internally Displaced Persons Working Group
The Immigration, Refugee, and Internally Displaced Persons (IRIDP) working group includes activists, scholars, academics, and other interested parties who work to mitigate the violence associated with transnational immigration, persons holding refugee status, and the challenges of internally displaced persons.
Director: Gianantonio Ricci
President, Project Spartacus, Calabria, Italy
Global Social Thought
The Global Social Thought (GST) working group investigates alternatives to classical Western social theory to remedy the ethnocentrism and racism of our intellectual foundations and approaches to research and analysis. That transformation is necessary to embrace the rich intellectual heritage and possibilities of the entire World House and its intellectual treasures. We explore classic streams of thought from South Asian, East Asian, African, Islamic, and Indigenous thought, as well as contemporary issues in social theory coming from the Global South, creating a dialogue of intellectual traditions and enriching our approach to social issues.
Director: Lester R. Kurtz
Professor, Public Sociology, George Manson University
Editor, The Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict
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