How can we achieve Future Justice?
In order to achieve Future Justice, to leave our descendants with a world worth having, we need laws, policies and 'ways of doing things' that are built around this vision and help us to actively live and develop it. Showing respect for all life, acknowledging its dignity, and building mutual trust between people requires effort.
Especially if the dominant way we think now tells us that humans lack goodness – that we are in essence materialistic, selfish and unsatisfiably greedy – and that our planet lacks the goods to fulfill the needs of all humans.
This vision of how we are and how we live together is life-defeating. And the rules built around it help to nurture a culture with these characteristics.
Our vision of Future Justice recognizes the important role of societal taboos. These are 'no-go' areas based on values and common sense rather than precise prohibitions.
But we can change our culture, our rules, our 'ways of doing things'. This is no small task – it is a paradigm shift. And we have to work on all levels of relationships and of social organisation.
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Changing policies and laws alone will not bring about Future Justice. Legislation is an effective way to change societies, but a law will not work well if few people believe it to be reasonable or just. And policies can be ignored if those responsible for putting them into practice do not think it worth ensuring they are followed.
The levels of our pyramid influence each other.
Read more about the Foundations of Future Justice.
"We need morally justified, globally acceptable, and universally respected common rules of play for the way people live together, which emphasize cooperation instead of confrontation, and undermine the anxieties created by the accelerating changes in our surroundings and the constantly growing potentials for violence, as well as the security obsessions resulting from them."
WFC Councillor Hans Peter Dürr
Future Justice…
...is about thinking and acting differently, based on respect, dignity and mutual trust
…considers not just what is happening now, but the effects of our actions in the years, decades and centuries to come
… is a means of creating new rules for how we live and work, pass laws and run countries
…is the giving of rights to the poorest, the weakest, the ignored, to the planet and to the other living creatures we share it with
…is a protection for all the people yet to be born, whose lives we are blighting before they have even started
