The Global Justice Workshop 2018

——Reconciling Two Agendas: Global Justice and National Interests

     The 2018 Global Justice Workshop took place on May 26-27, 2018 at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. It was organized by Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences (Fudan IAS) and the Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The two-day workshop involved a mixture of highly respected world-renowned scholars, UN policy analysts, and very talented younger scholars with their expertise in global justice from both inside and outside China, including Robert O. Keohane, Nannerl Keohane, Charles Beitz, Mathias Risse, Baogang He, Kok-Chor Tan, Jean Marc Coicaud, Yannick Glemarec, Darrel Moellendorf, Ariel Colonomos, Thomas Hale, Su Gu, Qing Liu, Qingping Liu, Guodong Sun, Xi Lin, Zhongyuan Wang, etc. 

     The workshop was intended to shape or reshape the research agenda and the discourse on issues of global justice – a topical subject at a time of great challenges and uncertainties in a volatile world. The workshop focused on seven topical sessions: Conceptualizations of Global Justice, Global Justice in a World of Independent Sovereign States, Global (In)Justice in Climate Change, Disentangling Complexities in the Relationship between Global Justice and National Interests, Justice at the Global Level, Perspectives on Global Justice and National Interests, and Round Table on Global Justice: Conceptions, Theories, and Indicators . 

     The workshop’s interactive discussions on the conception of global justice and the criteria for global justice performance assessment helped greatly the revision and improvement of the earlier draft of the first Fudan IAS Global Justice Working Paper, which focuses on the conceptualization and measurement of global justice and discusses theories, concepts, evaluative principles, and methodologies related to the study of global justice. For more information about the working paper, please click on the link: WORKING PAPER.