Summer School 2024 in Decolonising Justice
We believe that, now, more than ever, it is imperative to unlearn, redefine and reframe our understanding of justice. The events in Gaza have both highlighted the limits of current international justice and produced a global outpouring of people demanding a more just world order to be created. Engaging with these calls, we will be asking what a new form of global justice might actually require and entail. How would it address current and historic forms of inequality, marginalisation, exploitation and violence? How would it pay attention to material but also structural, symbolic and epistemic conditions of injustice? And how would it be global in scope without imposing one set of values, beliefs, perspectives? The question of justice is also not just relevant at the international level. In Sri Lanka we have seen over the past few years powerful parallel movements for transitional, economic and environmental justice. What is the relationship between these movements? Do activists see the inter-connections and crossovers and if yes, how? If not, what leads to divisions? And given that a number of struggles also involve human relationships to land, resources and other living creatures, should we also be speaking more about inter-species justice? And finally, how do we envision a world with social justice?
