Challenging Inequalities

Anabel Marin, Main Director of the project Pathways to Sustainability, an International Social Science Council initiative, participated at the Transformative Knowledge Workshop 2016 & World Social Science Report 2016 Launch and Seminar, held at New Delhi, India, from 5 to 9 of November.

During the event, on Monday 7 November, took place the World Social Science Report 2016 Launch and Seminar. The World Social Science Report 2016 highlights the latest social science knowledge on the state of inequalities today and examines the effects of inequalities across multiple dimensions, including gender, environment, access to knowledge, wealth and political power. Looking to the future, the Report suggests transformative responses to inequality at all levels, from the grassroots to global governance.

The report has over 100 authors from some 40 countries worldwide. It concludes with a clarion call to the research community to address the global challenges presented by inequality, proposing a framework for integrated, global research that can make a difference.

The World Social Science Report 2016 is prepared by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) in collaboration with the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and co-published with UNESCO. It is published online as an open access publication at: http://en.unesco.org/wssr2016 .

The launch of the Report was followed by a seminar in the framework of the “Transformations to Sustainability” Programme, examining the intersection of various dimensions of inequality, particularly in the context of global environmental change and the need for transformative change to a sustainability and social justice.

The day concluded with the presentation of the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research to the 2015 laureate, Marius R. Busemeyer, for his book Skills and Inequality: Partisan Politics and the Political Economy of Education Reforms in Western Welfare States (2014, Cambridge University Press). The Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research is presented by the International Social Science Council (ISSC). It is managed by the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), and sponsored by the University of Bergen.