{"id":289519,"date":"2025-03-10T12:01:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T12:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=289519"},"modified":"2025-03-09T16:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T16:00:38","slug":"unexpected-isa-award-distinguished-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/03\/unexpected-isa-award-distinguished-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected ISA Award: Distinguished Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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7 Mar 2025 <\/em>– I was surprised pleasantly by this award not often bestowed these days on a faculty member who writes and speaks in a critical voice on core issues of US foreign policy, especially in the context of Middle East politics, and above all with regard to Palestine\/Israel, and particularly with someone who like myself early on named Israel\u2019s response to October 7 in Gaza as \u2018genocide.\u2019<\/p>\n

It is awkward to call such attention to myself but irresponsible not to take note of signs of academic freedom defying a repressive atmosphere in many venues of higher education. This hostility to the traditions of freedom of expression is recently becoming overtly punitive (e.g. terminating $400,000,000 in Federal Grants to Columbia University science programs for its supposed tolerance of antisemitism, itself a manipulated allegation that actually encourages what it claims to be opposing.)<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Prof. Richard Falk is a member of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, 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,\u00a0<\/em>(Re)Imagining Humane Global Governance\u00a0(2014), proposes a value-oriented assessment of world order and future trends. His most recent books are\u00a0<\/em>Power Shift\u00a0(2016);\u00a0<\/em>Revisiting the Vietnam War\u00a0(2017);\u00a0<\/em>On Nuclear Weapons: Denuclearization, Demilitarization and Disarmament\u00a0(2019); and\u00a0<\/em>On Public Imagination: A Political & Ethical Imperative, ed. with Victor Faessel & Michael Curtin (2019).\u00a0He\u00a0is the author or coauthor of other books, including\u00a0<\/em>Religion and Humane Global Governance\u00a0(2001),\u00a0<\/em>Explorations at the Edge of Time\u00a0(1993),\u00a0<\/em>Revolutionaries and Functionaries\u00a0(1988),\u00a0<\/em>The Promise of World Order\u00a0(1988),\u00a0<\/em>Indefensible Weapons (with Robert Jay Lifton, 1983),\u00a0<\/em>A Study of Future Worlds\u00a0(1975), and\u00a0<\/em>This Endangered Planet\u00a0(1972).\u00a0His memoir,\u00a0<\/em>Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim\u00a0was published in March 2021 and received an award from Global Policy Institute at Loyala Marymount University as \u2018the best book of 2021.<\/strong>\u2019 He has been nominated frequently for the Nobel Peace Prize since 2009.<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 richardfalk.org<\/a><\/p>\n

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Join the<\/span><\/em><\/strong> BDS-BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS campaign<\/em><\/strong><\/span> to protest the Israeli barbaric siege of Gaza, illegal occupation of the Palestine nation\u2019s territory, the apartheid wall, its inhuman and degrading treatment of the Palestinian people, and the more than 7,000 Palestinian men, women, elderly and children arbitrarily locked up in Israeli prisons.<\/p>\n

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