Globalizing Justice (Old And Rare) – Ahmed Jehani, Kishour Uprety

?If you have the law on your side,” goes one saying, ?pound the law. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have neither, pound the table.? Indeed, more than a century of debate on global justice appears to have only turned it into an adversarial proceeding where no one has the job to argue the truth (Nelson’s law of jurisprudence) rendering it more and more argumentative and abdicating the need to understand things, as De Beaumarchai’s motto puts it. Yet, with both the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain gone, and state boundaries weakening, globalization seems to be surging fast ahead as never before. But, are we moving fast enough in overcoming the global injustices?
The answer could be deferred, but the risks in doing so are now becoming frighteningly real and would not be worth the taking by anyone: whether rich or poor, strong or weak, large or small. The wretched of the earth are rising and those deprived and dominated are demanding their share. Now that voice has conquered distance, imagine the havoc globalization of discontent could wreak. Obviously there can be no peace without law and, certainly, no peace without justice, but neither is genuine peace possible with unjust law nor can it be sustained in the absence of a modicum of development or a minimum of democratization. One could disregard the scope for the unintended consequences that global discontent could bring in its wake, not the signal flashed by 9/11 and 26/11, which certainly was cruel, bitter, and painful, but loud and clear: Terrorism is globalizing faster than justice and the world may be running fast out of time.
In revisiting the global quest for justice, the authors in this volume open a frank and honest debate for everyone – from the professional to the lay public – where they set forth, in a nuanced probe, the deficiencies as well as the reasons for discontent in the modalities the world has so far pursued in the course of its development, digging out a rich vein of evidence to bolster their premises. What they offer here may serve not only as food for thought but also as fuel to dynamize the quest toward overcoming injustices of the past and expanding justice in the days ahead.
Globalizing Justice (Old And Rare) – Ahmed Jehani, Kishour Uprety