2048 Project

The 2048 Project is an affiliation of educational institutions, human rights centers, non-governmental organizations, businesses, and foundations collaborating to educate students and the public about the evolution of human rights and to provide a process to draft an international framework for enforceable human rights that can be in place by the year 2048, the 100th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

There are many ways an international framework for enforceable human rights could be created, and 2048 does not claim to have the ideal framework. Rather, 2048 provides a means for the tens of thousands of scholars, students, nonprofit organizations, philanthropic foundations, and governments who are working in parallel for human rights, to intersect by focusing and sharing together.

2048 is not new, it is part of the ongoing evolution of enforceable human rights documents. As Eleanor Roosevelt said, "the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." 2048 collects people's dreams about how humanity can live together in peace and prosperity, with protection for our environment, based upon a set of legally enforceable universal human rights. 2048 is the next step as humanity gradually puts its social contract in writing. The Internet is the key, our website enables our Project.

The Executive Director of the 2048 Project, Professor Kirk Boyd of Berkeley Law School has generously volunteered to donate copies of his book 2048: Humanity’s Agreement to Live Together for the delegates of the 59th Session of Berkeley Model United Nations. We encourage all of our delegates to participate in the 2048 initiative.

**Information Taken from the 2048 Project Website**