Intergenerational justice: obligations, promises, failures

The School of PEP joined forces with the Intergenerational Foundation to present a two-day conference on intergenerational justice. 

The main goal of the conference was to discuss different conceptions of intergenerational justice and their concrete implications for policy-oriented issues. We wanted to foster a discussion on the meaning and demands of intergenerational fairness, and to spur a debate between competing conceptions of intergenerational justice.

In addition, the papers and discussion considered implications for issues that have a strong intergenerational dimension such as pensions, housing, democratic participation/representation, jobs, internships, and education. The emphasis was on issues of justice between age groups and overlapping generations rather than on distant future generations.

Speakers

• Norman Daniels (Department of Global Health and Population – Harvard)
• Axel Gosseries (Chaire Hoover d’éthique économique et sociale – UCLouvain)
• Anca Gheaus (Department of Philosophy – Sheffield)
• Bobby Duffy (Managing Director, Ipsos MORI Social Research Institute)
• Shiv Malik (Journalist and co-author of Jilted Generation)
• Ed Howker (Journalist and co-author of Jilted Generation)
• Clare Coatman (Co-editor of Regeneration, Campaigner at Friends of the Earth)
• Angus Hanton (Co-founder of the Intergenerational Foundation)