Richard Falk is a member of the TRANSCEND Network, Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, Chair of Global Law, Faculty of Law, at Queen Mary University London, 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 served as director 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); On Nuclear Weapons: Denuclearization, Demilitarization and Disarmament (2019); and On Public Imagination: A Political & Ethical Imperative, ed. with Victor Faessel & Michael Curtin (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). His memoir, Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim was published in March 2021 and received an award from Global Policy Institute at Loyala Marymount University as ‘the best book of 2021.’ He has been nominated frequently for the Nobel Peace Prize since 2009.
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I found it sad that when David Ray Griffin died on November 2022 so little public notice was taken to
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I listened to your prideful nationalism in the State of the Union address with stunned disbelief, wondering how such sentiments
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Barbara Walters, who died on December 30, 2022, received many accolades during the days that followed. She was rightly hailed
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Anyone with but half eye open during the last several decades should by now realize that undisclosed Zionist Long Game
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Among the self-determination struggles of our time, Kashmir is at risk of being forgotten by most of the world (except
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There is no doubt that the November 1st Israeli elections will be of lasting significance for both the evolving character of
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Not as widely known as it deserves to be given its accomplishments and creative approach, is a small human rights
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Ever since the Ukraine War started on 24 Feb 2022, the NATO response, mainly articulated and materially implemented by the
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The Vietnam Syndrome was a term deployed after the U.S. defeat in the Vietnam War to explain and complain about
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The Road Not Taken After two weeks in Iran during latter part of January 1979, the height of the revolutionary
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