16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions - Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
This goal looks at improving justice from multiple angles - not only by ensuring that acts of violence and genocide are properly investigated and dealt with (and thus, hopefully, reduced), but also by examining the injustices built into institutions and cultural "norms" that lead to inequities in the way people are treated in society.
We have a number of JCU researchers active in this field. Here are four who have published research in the past two years:
Mr Jamie Fellows has a special research focus on criminal sentences, legal history and war crimes.
Judith Rafferty (also known as Judith Herrmann) has a research focus on the justice process for female survivors of sexual violence in war-torn areas.
Claire Holland specialises in mediation and conflict, and has turned her attention not only to matters of immigration and refugees, but also domestic institutions such as the ATO.
Dr Mark David Chong focuses his research in the field of criminal justice, specialising in social matters and law and order issues.
As is the case with all of the SDGs, the researchers we have chosen to highlight are merely the tip of the iceberg regarding JCU's engagement with this matter. There are many fine researchers undertaking important and valuable research in this field. You can find them by searching justice in Research Portfolio, or in ResearchOnline
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