Convenors

Richard Falk

Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, Chair of Global Law, Faculty of Law, at Queen Mary University London, and co-Director of its Centre of Environmental Justice and Crime, Research Associate the Orfalea Center of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Fellow of the Tellus Institute. He directed the project on Global Climate Change, Human Security, and Democracy at UCSB and formerly was the director of the North American group in the World Order Models Project. Between 2008 and 2014, Falk served as UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Occupied Palestine. His book, (Re)Imagining Humane Global Governance (2014), proposes a value-oriented assessment of world order and future trends. His most recent books are Power Shift (2016); Revisiting the Vietnam War (2017); and On Nuclear Weapons: Denuclearization, Demilitarization and Disarmament (2019); He is the author or coauthor of other books, including Religion and Humane Global Governance (2001), Explorations at the Edge of Time (1993), Revolutionaries and Functionaries (1988), The Promise of World Order (1988), Indefensible Weapons(with Robert Jay Lifton) (1983), A Study of Future Worlds (1975), and This Endangered Planet (1972). In 2016 he published a book of poems, Waiting for Rainbows. His memoir, Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim was published in 2021 and received an award from Global Policy Institute at Loyala Marymount University as ‘the best book of 2021.’ He has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023. Falk’s most recent book, written in collaboration with John Dugard and Michael Lynk is Protecting Human Rights in Occupied Palestine: Working Through the United Nations (2022).

Currently, Falk is preoccupied with his role as one of the three convenors of SHAPE, and also with a parallel effort to revive the World Order Models Project (WOMP) that had an earlier existence, 1968-1995. Both initiatives are responses to what is believed to be a defining crisis for humanity and its natural habitat. In addition, Falk is involved as co-director, with Augusto Lopez-Claro, of a project on global governance with scholars drawn from around the world.