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Global Justice Index Report 2020
The Global Justice Index is a multiyear research project conducted at the Fudan-IAS to conceptualize and measure each country’s contribution to achieving greater global justice. In 2019, we provided our first-year achievements with the rankings of nation-states at the global level from 2010 to 2017. Based on the results, we have published a book in Chinese and an academic paper in English, which has received widespread attention. Building on the success of the previous year’s work, in 2020, we intend to provide our second-year results with the rankings of nation-states at the global level from 2010 to 2018.
This year’s Global Justice Index study is not simply a continuation of last year’s work. To further improve the quality of our index, we have made a few major modifications. First of all, we have perfected our selection of issue areas and indicators by adding a brand new issue area and more indicators to our study. In the Global Justice Index (2019), we have selected nine issues areas to construct the index. The issue of refugees has been included in this year’s Global Justice Index as more and more attention has been devoted to the fermenting refugee crisis. For other issue areas, indicator systems have been either kept unchanged or improved. Second, we have slightly modified our research methodology to better calculate the index (for more information, please see the next section). Third, we have changed our indicators and included more data in our calculation. Last, we have strengthened our analysis section by incorporating and discussing more literature and policy implications. As such, readers from different backgrounds can all benefit.
According to the two major principles of CBDR-RC and CDDR, we established a ten-issue index system: (1) climate change (global warming), (2) peacekeeping, (3) humanitarian aid, (4) terrorism and armed conflicts, (5) cross-national criminal police cooperation, (6) refugee, (7) anti-poverty, (8) education, (9) public health, and (10) the protection of women and children.
Our results show that the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, China, Sweden, Norway, Canada, Belgium, Finland and Italy ranked the top ten in the global justice index in 2018 that includes all issues. In addition, the lowest-ranked countries come from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and that, apart from China, the highest-ranked countries come from Europe and North America, affirming that the rank of global justice index highly correlates with economic development.
The full article is available online here : https://doi.org/10.1007/s41111-021-00178-1