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10 December 2025, Human Rights Day 15 - 17 CET. Online Round Table

Updated: 3 days ago

Earth Citizenship and Cities with Soul for “Our One Home - Earth”:

Rethinking the Notion of Home

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This session explores the fundamental human need for home, interconnection, and belonging as the foundations of flourishing urban life and Earth citizenship. It asks how emotional safety, dignity, & trust can be cultivated in cities, reimagining them as sanctuaries where every person feels recognised, respected, & rooted. Citizenship is framed not as an abstract label but as a tangible connection to land, bioregion, and planet. Home is both physical sanctuary—safety, housing, protection & spiritual sanctuary—sacredness, memory, and continuity. At stake is the transformation of cities into places that nurture the soul of humanity and the Earth, where loneliness gives way to belonging, exclusion to welcome, & fear to trust.

Focus

  • What truly makes a place home—physically, emotionally, spiritually.

  • Belonging as a rooted connection to land, bioregion, & planet—a lived form of Earth citizenship.

  • Ancestral wisdom: home as lineage, memory, & continuity with those who came before.

  • Emotional safety, warmth, & acceptance as foundations of flourishing & civic cohesion.

  • Addressing the wounds of homelessness, loneliness, and disconnection.

  • Housing, sanctuary, & cultural memory as pillars of dignity & resilience.

  • Reframing security: from fear and control to trust, presence, & relational care.

  • Stewardship of home—responsibility & care for the place as a shared legacy.

  • Catalysing a movement of unity & conscious collaboration across cultures and generations.

Research Basis

  • Loss of emotional safety in urban life: rising loneliness, anxiety, alienation.

  • Human habitats as emotional ecosystems: collective emotional climates shape belonging or fragmentation.

  • Crisis of belonging: displacement, migration, cultural alienation, fractured identities.

  • Citizenship of Earth: emerging scholarship reframing belonging as planetary responsibility.

Thematic Action Ideas

  • Cases & experiences from the first year of the One Home Journey project

Key Questions

1. What truly makes a place home, & how can cities embody sanctuary, dignity, & belonging for all?

2. How can Earth citizenship, rooted in land and extended to the planet, become a unifying identity for human flourishing?

Expected Outcomes

  • Integration of emotional climate, housing dignity, and wellbeing into safety strategies.

  • Practical models for Soulful Cities—policies & practices supporting belonging.

  • Shared understanding of Earth citizenship as a unifying worldview for collaboration.

  • Catalytic connections across global networks (Home for Humanity, LCARE, Ecocivilisation, Holomovement, Unity Earth, & others). EARTH-ROUND-TABLE PARTICIPANTS

  • Marina Demschenko, Living Cities, UK, EUROPE

  • Violeta Bulc, Founder, Eco-Civilisation, Slovenia, EUROPE

  • Paco Ayala, Founder, Huerto Roma Verde, Mexico City, Mexico, AMERICAS (Home for Humanity Mexico)

  • Dr. Ephraim Cebiso "Ntate" Mabena, Traditional Healer, Founder of Mothong African Heritage, Mamelodi, South Africa, AFRICA (Home for Humanity South Africa)

  • Mama Mabel.Mabena, Traditional Healer, Mothong African Heritage, Mamelodi, South Africa, AFRICA (Home for Humanity South Africa)

  • Ruphin Malango Kungwa, Founder, Full Circle Learning Uganda; Co-Initiator “Nyumba Ya Umoja” Home for Humanity Ecosystem, Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Uganda, AFRICA

  • Melianne Muhesi, Founder, Unfold Voices, Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Uganda, AFRICA

  • Dr. Alexander Laszlo, Living Cities, Argentina, AMERICAS

  • Dr. Rama Mani, Co-Initiator, Home for Humanity Movement and One Home Journey, France/India, ASIA

  • Prof. Alexander Schieffer, Co-Initiator, Home for Humanity Movement and One Home Journey, France/Germany, EUROPE

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