# Global Justice **Domain:** political philosophy **Doc Type:** Concept Node **Classification:** Infrastructure Concept **Maturity:** Foundational **Related:** [[Historical Responsibility]], [[Fractional Reparations]], [[Meritocracy]], [[Moral Accountability Layer]], [[International Mandate]] --- ## Definition **Ethical frameworks addressing fairness, equity, and accountability across territorial, generational, and species boundaries**, examining how principles of justice apply when beneficiaries and bearers of costs span nations, timescales, and populations. Global justice reconciles local sovereignty with transnational moral obligations. --- ## General Context Global justice philosophy (Pogge, Held, Nussbaum) debates whether domestic justice principles extend internationally, how to address colonial legacies and climate injustice, and what obligations wealthy nations bear toward global poverty and suffering. --- ## Key Insight Global justice requires mechanisms to enforce obligations that cross sovereign boundaries—a challenge absent in domestic justice. International institutions lack enforcement capacity of nation-states, making voluntary compliance and institutional design critical. --- ## See Also [[Climate Justice as Reparative Equity]], [[How Reparative Justice Became Meritocracy]], [[Climate Justice and Global Reparative Systems]], [[Governance Testbeds]], [[Human Agency]]