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 Dear Reader,
The Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations (FRFG) is a think-tank on the interface of science, politics and the business world. To FRFG, intergenerational justice means that today's youth and future generations must have at least the same opportunities to meet their own needs as the generation governing today. The foundation publishes the journal "Intergenerational Justice Review" (IGJR),
which is an English-speaking quarterly magazine on intergenerational justice, seeking to publish articles of the most important research and current thinking from political science, ethics, and law. More about the IGJR... |
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Call for Papers - A Young Generation Under Pressure? |
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations invites papers for the anthology:
A Young Generation Under Pressure?
The Financial Situation and the “Rush Hour” of the Cohorts 1970-1985 in a Generational Comparison
For the upcoming book project we are still looking for articles (length: ca. 40000 characters) in English. The anthology is aimed at politicians, scholars, experts, and any interested members of the general public. We are happy to inform you that we have received a publishing contract from Springer (www.springer.com), one of the biggest science publishers in Europe. They will publish the book with about 200-300 pages. Springer Publishing will be in charge of copy-editing and formatting the manuscript. A spell-check will be done by a native speaker. Moreover, Springer Publishing will invest substantially in marketing measures for this book. More...
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Public hearing |
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 Public hearing concerning the constitutional amendment
The campaign for the institutionalisation of intergenerational justice, one of the main projects of the FRFG, keeps on moving. After the first reading in the “Bundestag” in October 2007 the draft was transmitted to the parliamentary committees. While the judicial panel, which was originally in charge of the discussion about the amendment, criticized the bill, the committee for sustainable development has now taken over and is organising a public hearing on 15 October 2008, 5 p.m. The hearing primarily deals with the question if the protection of future generations is already implemented in the constitution and if intergenerational justice can effectively be accomplished by the constitutional draft. Read more...
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Symposium: Easing the ''rush hour'' of life |
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 Symposium: Easing the « rush hour » of life – Diversity of life courses in international comparison
From July 4th to July 6th, 2008, the Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations (FRFG) organised a symposium on “Easing the «rush hour» of life – Diversity of life courses in international comparison”. The participants included renowned experts as well as young scientists from several European countries. The symposium dealt with the issue “To what extent should we change the planning of our life right from the start, knowing that our life expectancy is higher than the one of previous cohorts?” Read more...
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Intergenerational Justice Award |
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 And the winner is...
The FRFG has awarded its Fourth Intergenerational Justice Award on Friday, 4 June 2008, in Berlin.
This year's award, endowed with a prize money of €10.000, focused on "Unequal treatment of the young and the old in the workplace". The prize money is shared among five works of young researchers who have looked into the problems of the so-called "Generation P".
The award-winning papers can be found on the German website.
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New research assistant |
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FRFG is looking for an new research assistant
We are looking for a flexible and reliable assistant with a degree in social or cultural sciences or economics. You should be interested in intergenerational justice and sustainability. We offer you an interesting and diverse job and you will be able to work quite independently.
Are you intersted in the challenge?
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Journal 1/2008 |
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Intergenerational Justice Journal 1/2008
For 2600 years, different responses have been given to the question ‚What is justice?’. However, this doesn’t mean that normative and empirical research of justice would be a waste of time. No political actor and no society can do without ‘justice’ as a regulative idea. Concepts of justice have to prove their worth in competition to each other. Since the 1970s, the traditional, intragenerational dimension of justice has been supplemented by a new dimension: the justice between generations. The spectrum of answers to the question ‚What is intergenerational justice?’ reaches from sufficiency theories that want to secure only a minimum standard for future generations to theories which demands an improvement of living conditions of future generations. Interested?
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Demographic Change and Intergenerational Justice |
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Our new book: Demographic Change and Intergenerational Justice
 Intergenerational
justice has been achieved if the opportunities of the members of the
next generation to fulfil their needs are better than those of the
members of the preceding generation. For this, each generation ought to
leave for the next generation an amount of resources at least equal
to its own amount.
The book deals with the complex relationship between intergenerational
justice and demographic change and is characterized by its
interdisciplinary approach. The authors come from a multitude of
professional backgrounds and from several countries. This illustrates
the implications of the demographic shift from many different
perspectives. The book deals not only with the aspects of economic
policy but also with environmental, societal and philosophical issues.
The comprehensive volume is composed of five sections that pinpoint
demographic trends, examine the impact of demographic changes on key
indicators, investigate the relationship between key indicators and
intergenerational justice, scrutinize population policies, and finally
propose ways to implement long-term thinking on these issues.
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