The Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order is an award for ideas and creations that are original, feasible, and with potential impact on making the world more just and peaceful.
The 2019 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order goes to an innovative framework designed to measure and improve the ability of countries in providing basic human rights of food, health, education, housing, work and social well-being to their people.
The co-designers of the framework, who are also the co-winners of the Award are Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Terra Lawson-Remer and Susan Randolph. Their book “Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights”, which was published in 2015 by Oxford University Press, sets forth a gauging method on countries’ ability to provide necessities of human rights. The book also offers suggestions and explanations on policies that advance human rights and the possible ways to achieve the advance.
Fukuda-Parr is a professor in The New School’s Graduate Programs in International Affairs. Lawson-Remer was recently a fellow in Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Randolph is an Associate Professor Emerita of Economics at the University of Connecticut.
More about the Award and the winning framework can be found here: http://grawemeyer.org/human-rights-index-wins-grawemeyer-world-order-award/
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