Richard Falk

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Richard Falk

Richard Falk is an international law and international relations scholar who taught at Princeton University for forty years. Since 2002 he has lived in Santa Barbara, California, and taught at the local campus of the University of California in Global and International Studies and since 2005 chaired the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. From 2008 until May 2014, he was the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.

Supplemental Blog on Arizona Shootings

Posted by Richard Falk | Jan 28, 2011 | Palestine, US, Viewpoints |

Because my blog prompted by the Arizona shootings has attracted many comments pro and con, and more recently has been the object of a more selective public attack on me personally, I thought it appropriate to post a...

Welcoming the Tunisian Revolution: Hopes and Fears

Posted by Richard Falk | Jan 24, 2011 | Africa, News & Analysis |

Almost six years ago, President George W. Bush’s otherwise inconsequential Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, gave a speech at the American University in Cairo that grabbed headlines. While lauding the autocratic leadership of...

On Jewish Identity

Posted by Richard Falk | Jan 18, 2011 | Culture |

As someone who is both Jewish and supportive of the Palestinian struggle for a just and sustainable peace, I am often asked about my identity. The harshest critics of my understanding of the Israel/Palestine conflict contend...

Interrogating the Arizona Killings from a Safe Distance

Posted by Richard Falk | Jan 13, 2011 | US, Viewpoints |

I spent a year in Sweden a few years after the assassination of Olaf Palme in 1986, the controversial former prime minister of the country who, at the time of his death, was serving as a member of the Swedish cabinet. He was...