The Future Justice Commission
The Future Justice Commission is composed of WFC Councillors, Advisors and selected experts from different fields of knowledge relevant to anticipate the needs of future generations.
Its overall goal is to protect the Rights of Future Generations through best policy promotion and worst behavior denunciation guided by complementary WFC Future Justice principles and standards and through the promotion of human security.
The Commission's first substantive strategy meeting was held in Santa Barbara in April 2008 where it defined three synergetic work strands - Prevention, Governance and Criminalization - with the following objectives:
- Research and educate about the root causes of insecurity, injustice and inequity and potentially future-foreclosing developments in business, politics and science.
- Develop Future Justice principles that help to detect and avoid unintended consequences in policy-making and promote these as reference points for impact assessment in policy making.
- Campaign for the criminalization of acts that have severe consequences for the health, safety or means of survival of future generations of humans, or threaten the survival of entire species or ecosystems.
We are currently developing different formats for public outreach and political engagement. So please come visit this page again in November 2008.
If you have any questions in the meantime, please contact Commission Coordinator Maja Göpel: maja(at)worldfuturecouncil.org
Future Justice Commission Meeting in Santa Barbara, April 10-13 2008
Public Lecture at UC Santa Barbara
Internal Strategy Meeting
Participants in the meeting: The Hon. Arthur Robinson, Judge C.G. Weeramantry, Bianca Jagger, Dr. Scilla Elworthy, Dr. Rama Mani, Prof. Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Count Hans von Sponeck, Dr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Dr. Hans Peter Dürr, David Krieger, Prof. Stephen Marglin, Jakob von Uexküll, Herbert Girardet, Alexandra Wandel, Neshan Gunaskera, Dr. Maja Göpel, Miguel Mendonca, Milo Wagner.
