https://doi.org/10.1177/1746197919833381 Education, Citizenship and Social Justice 1–14 © The Author(s) 2019 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/1746197919833381 journals.sagepub.com/home/esj ecsj Global citizenship education: The case of Equipo Pueblo’s Citizen Diplomacy Program in Mexico Antonio Alejo [GQ: 1] Instituto Galego de Analise e Documentación Internacional, Spain Abstract Globalization processes create the need to rethink how citizens participate in complex and interdependent societies. The purpose of this article is to understand how education-related non-governmental organizations in Americas are becoming increasingly transnational in a globalized world through the experience of Mexican non-governmental organization Equipo Pueblo. Following this purpose, I seek to contribute to the study of international education facing non-governmental organizations through activism involved in citizenship education. I argue that non-governmental organizations are potential agents for ordinary citizens to promote non-formal education by participation on global public arenas becoming an important non-formal learning experience beyond schools, which allows those citizens to acquire the necessary skills for effective participation in globalized policy processes. To give empirical evidence to my research, I analyze Equipo Pueblo’s Citizen Diplomacy Program and its influence repertoire that enable citizens’ participation in public spaces, as example of non-formal citizenship education in the context of global politics. Keywords Citizen Diplomacy, global citizenship education, global politics, Mexico, non-governmental organizations, transnational activism Introduction Globalization processes are expanding and deepening. Global connectivity infrastructure (Khanna, 2016) and the evolution of the complex global financial system (Sassen, 2015) are two examples of the expansion of globalization dynamics. Despite recent reactions to these global transforma- tions, such as groups defending their national interests and patriotic values (e.g. UK Brexit vote, US election of President Trump, and right-wing action in Europe), these nationalist political reac- tions will not stop the development of global processes if we observe the growing and consolida- tion of a global plutocracy and the deepening of a global multidimensional inequality around the globe (Brown, 2016; Fraser, 2017; Milanovic, 2016; Sassen, 2015; Skocpol and Heltel-Fernández, Corresponding author: Antonio Alejo, Instituto Galego de Analise e Documentación Internacional, Ronda de Outeiro 30 4, 15006 A Coruña, Spain. Email: alejoaj@gmail.com[AQ: 1] 0 0 10.1177/1746197919833381Education, Citizenship and Social JusticeAlejo review-article 2019 Review Article