GLOBAL JUSTICE: Applied global justice

• Forschungsstelle: EU FRP
• Projektnummer: 02.0232
• Projekttitel Englisch: GLOBAL JUSTICE: Applied global justice

Schlüsselwörter (Englisch)

Education; Training; Scientific Research; Social Aspects

Alternative Projektnummern (Englisch)

EU project number: HPRN-CT-2002-00231

Forschungsprogramme (Englisch)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 4.1.1 Research training networks

Kurzbeschreibung (Englisch)

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Abstract (Englisch)

The network intends to explore neither justice in general nor cosmopolitical justice in particular, but instead applied global justice. Such application has both a formal and a substantive dimension. This network project is intended to continue the three European High Level Scientific Conferences on 'Global Justice' (#HPCF-2000-00191), which were focused on formal issues of global justice. The network will therefore now cover substantive global justice issues, which requires a different approach. To do so, we identify eight main spheres of justice which the network will explore in their global dimension: economic justice, social justice, cultural and minority rights, environmental justice and rights of future generations, right of intervention, rights to migration, democratic local participation, human rights and criminal justice. Each research team will explore one of these spheres.
These spheres are closely interdependent and no valid theses can be formulated without taking such interdependence into account. To explore interconnections between the separate spheres, collective workshops will first be developed to concentrate on each sphere of justice. Each research team researching each sphere will present its work to researchers covering the other spheres of justice. The final result should be a publication which gives a complex image of global justice while remaining true to its multifaceted instantiations.
What with the prevalence of oversimplified public commentary that too often praises or rejects the actual process of economic, cultural and political globalisation, as well as an academic tendency to treat issues of globalisation almost strictly descriptively, work should be done on the normative complexities of globalisation. Such research could help public opinion and political debate constructively shape a process that too often seems to out of reach to public and academic input.

Datenbankreferenzen (Englisch)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
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Swiss Project-Number: 02.0232