About Leadership and Global Justice
What does global justice look like, and how can leadership help get us there? The contributors to Leadership and Global Justice confront the conceptual and practical challenges associated with applying the concept of justice beyond national boundaries. Essays analyze the roles and responsibilities of institutions—states, corporations, international financial institutions, UN bodies, nongovernmental organizations—in making collaborative progress towards international justice. They explore justice in various spheres: citizenship, the marketplace, health, education, and the environment. And they provide creative and constructive moral approaches for evaluating and promoting global justice, including human rights, capabilities, and solidarity of people across boundaries.
Reviews
This is a fine collection of contributors and essays on interrelated dimensions of global justice. In the Introduction, editors Hicks and Williamson pose all the right questions for justice leadership. Then, over eleven solid chapters, the authors effectively engage an interdisciplinary conversation that works. The editors finish the conversation with the key challenges facing leadership for global justice.
—Larry Rasmussen, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary
Without shying away from the particularly complex moral, political, and practical issues involved in any kind of collective response to pressing world problems such as poverty, climate change, or crimes against humanity, this extraordinary collection of essays on global justice and leadership is at once sobering and hopeful, deeply philosophical and immensely pragmatic, grounded in history and able to envision a better future. There is something of value in here for everyone from the person on the street to the highest levels of international politics, whether that is an important question to be asked, a unique perspective to be taken, or a new approach to be adopted. This is a book that takes seriously not only the moral obligations of individuals to make change in the world but also their capacity to make that difference, whether in a position of elite leadership or not.
—Karen Zivi, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Meijer Honors College, Grand Valley State University
