Introduction to the Fudan IAS Global Justice Project

The Fudan IAS Global Justice Index is an innovative multi-year research project aiming to measure global justice performance of more than 100 countries in advancing global justice through international collaborations. 

In regard to the measurement, the Index consists of two clusters of global-justice matters, which are selected and justified by global justice theories – a synthesis of three theoretical approaches – rights-based, goods-based, and virtue-based, and correspond to and based on two evaluative principles: Common but Differentiated and Respective Capabilities (CBDR-RC) and Cosmopolitan but Due-diligent Responsibilities (CDDR). The first cluster addresses those issues for which no single actor can be held directly accountable or responsible, matters that can only be tackled through the globally concerted efforts of all stakeholders. The second cluster views the issue of such obligations as falling within national jurisdiction, in the context of which nation-states are expected to provide a series of public goods to their people within their respective territories, meanwhile generating benefits beyond the nation-state. 

The Fudan IAS Global Justice Index measure countries’ global justice performance across nine issue-areas, which falls into the abovementioned two clusters as follows:

CBDR-RC: Climate change, Peacekeeping, Humanitarian Aid, Counter-terrorism, Cross-national Criminal Police Cooperation

CDDR: Anti-poverty, Education, Public Health, Protection of Women and Children