The Intergenerational Justice Award on Gerontocracy and Presentism: the winners!

Two types of intergenerational comparison can be found in the literature: snapshots of the relationship between young and old, and comparisons between those living today and those living in the future, ideally taking into account the course of a person’s entire life. Each type of comparison corresponds to a potential form of intergenerational injustice: the former to gerontocracy and the latter to presentism. For this call for entries, we sought articles that address one of these two problem areas in relation to a specific, self-selected policy field, and that apply this methodology to it.

The jury has now reached its decision. The prize money of €6,000 has been divided among six winners:

🥇 1st place (€1,000 each):

Gelila Enbaye – “Time to replace the old guard? Gerontocracy and presentism in South Sudan”
Johanna Klingenburg – “Beyond Generations: Mapping Justice by Consequences”
Joshua Steib – “Governing for Tomorrow: Global Insights into Institutionalising Intergenerational Equity”
Alimi Salifou – “Protecting future generations in Africa: Navigating Presentism, Geopolitics and Intergenerational Justice”
Caitlin Masoliver – “Institutional Reform for the Long-term: Balancing Tensions between Technocracy and Participatory Democracy for Addressing Presentism in Policymaking”
Vankala Lasya Priya – “When youth revolt: Gerontocracy and Presentism in Nepal’s 2025 Gen Z revolution”

Special Prize: Lukas Pfaller – “Long-term art and how it becomes design?”

Congratulations to all the winners! We would like to thank the Apfelbaum Foundation for the idea and for funding the prize money.