Issue #43: How to define social justice?
As we are just starting to write on the topic of social justice, our first task shall be to define the term and the project's objective. Your comments and ideas are welcome.
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Social justice and democracy are the two main interests of the present project.
"Social justice" may mean different things to different people. The implicit references when using this term are different across countries and has changed over time. We shall strive to define the concept through a variety of related topics, providing a global picture both of what social justice is, and what it is not.
We shall explore social justice especially in relation to democracy and in a global context. Every single country in the world, and their citizens, should have a realistic prospect of achieving peace and justice.
We shall explore aspects of social justice in relation to taxes, to the environment and countless other topics.
Our current political system is artificially dividing our democratic societies into two broad camps, often called the "left" and the "right". The reality is much more complex and we claim as our own the values of both sides.
As we are just starting to write on the topic of social justice, our first task shall be to define the term and the project's objective. Your comments and ideas are welcome.
Defining social justice may be a first step, but it is not the real objective. Reading through the Wikipedia article about social justice (linked below), one can observe that Wikipedians have already made a great job at defining it and providing an overview of its different aspects. At the same time, whatever one's perspective, a cursory look at the world today is enough to notice that our global society thoroughly lacks social justice. So the question is: what is lacking? What are the root causes of such injustice? What policies exist that ought to be studied, understood and implemented?
See also the OECD's "States of Fragility" report.
Listed of relevant pages, in alphabetical order.
Clark D. Cunningham — Georgia professor of constitutional law, law & ethics.
Deaths of migrants — Seeking security, countless migrants find death...
Economic, social and cultural rights
Housing
Human rights
Hunger — How do we reconcile food waste with famine?
Immigration — The root causes and the human cost of the "immigration crisis".
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) — Stimulate economic progress and seeking best practice.
Poverty
Racism
Refugee camps
Refugees
Universal basic income
Social justice is justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society.