Justice, yes please
Conflicts around the world are increasing, as is the number of autocracies. Emissions are rising. Sentences are getting longer, and forests are becoming fewer. In such a global climate, how should one understand justice?
Researchers explore justice in an unjust world through the 2025 annual box. In six essays, six scholars examine the conditions and challenges for justice. The topics include fair punishment, resource distribution, and peace, but also censorship, whether nature has its own rights, and of course the possibly eternal question: despite all the problems, is the world becoming a little fairer in the long run?
Here, criminologist Magnus Hörnqvist writes about the dual justice of punishment, philosopher Lena Halldenius discusses respect, resources, and relationships, and economist Andreas Bergh addresses the question of whether the world is becoming fairer. Literary scholar Jon Helgason writes about censorship, political scientist Karin Aggestam explores the possibilities of creating just peace with a focus on Israel/Palestine, and finally, legal scholar Yaffa Epstein reflects on whether granting nature its own rights could be a possible solution to environmental problems.
Knowledge is power, and now there is a quick gateway to insights, learning, and eye-opening perspectives: the annual boxes from the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, filled with newly written texts on important topics. Knowledge straight from the research frontier for the curious. Research in a small box. The six essays are available to read at rj.se, collected in a stylish box.