Announcing the winners of the Intergenerational Justice Prize 2024!

The Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations (FRFG) and the Intergenerational Foundation (IF) jointly promote the Intergenerational Justice Prize. The prize is awarded biennially and was initiated by the Stiftung Apfelbaum (Appletree Foundation) who also finances it. A total of €10,000 is awarded each year and divided among the winning entrants. The best entries will be considered for publication in the next issue of the Intergenerational Justice Review.

The theme of this year’s prize was “Long-term peacekeeping for future generations”. The call for papers (see here) invited authors to consider topics such as international collaboration on peace, challenges to nuclear disarmament, humanitarian interventions, the nation state as a potential cause of conflict, and the use of education and (social) media to promote peace. Among the themes suggested in the call for papers, the most popular themes among the submitted papers included the relationship between climate change and conflict, reform of global governance structures, and the role of nuclear weaponry.

Many young researchers and academics submitted papers for the Intergenerational Justice Prize 2024. The research papers and articles were then evaluated by the jury in a double-blind review procedure. This year, one essay was awarded the first prize, and five further articles were awarded a joint second place.

First place was awarded to Michael Haiden for his essay “Can humanitarian interventions help create global peace? Common practices, normative change and the end of nationalism”. This essay argues for the importance of humanitarian interventions in long-term peacekeeping because of the way they promote the norm of global solidarity and weaken the norm of national sovereignty. A joint second place was awarded to Ibrahim Khan, Lukas Kiemele, Augustine Akah and Brian Chaggu, Luzie Krüger, and Rojeh Gharfeh.

Four of the winning articles are soon to be published in the Intergenerational Justice Review in a special double issue on the topic “Long-term peacekeeping”. Watch this space, as well as the website igjr.org and our Instagram @gengerecht, for more announcements about the upcoming publications in the next few weeks!