Full speech by Michael Ignatieff, Princess of Asturias Prize for Social Sciences 2024

Michael Ignatieff is the winner of the Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences 2024. Her extensive and varied career has stood out, according to specialists, for her defense of fundamental and universal human rights and values, according to the Princess of Asturias Foundation.

Through his books, articles and television programs, he points out, he has contributed ideas for overcoming ethnic and religious differences and the search for common values ​​within the context of globalization, clarifying the consequences of the technological revolution, analysis of moral conflicts against cultural relativism and opposition to violent nationalisms, among other topics.