The international conference The Grammar of Justice was the first of a series of conferences envisaged by the Leibniz Research Group Transnational Justice. It brought together a group of almost 30 scholars from 14 countries around the world, including Brasil, Peru, Mexico, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Egypt, Tunisia, China, India, Canada, United Kingdom and Germany in order to discuss the grounds and contours of a universalizable notion of justice.
The aim was not to a construct a common ethos through ‘intercultural dialogue’ among representatives of certain traditions or societies. Rather, we would like to draw on different philosophical views to explore in how far our understanding of justice is a concept that is used to deal with deep-seated social conflict so as to establish non-dominating social and political relations: Does the grammar of justice really point to the absence of domination or to something else? Is justice really the main concept used to regulate or even solve social conflicts and to establish a legitimate social order? Or are there other concepts that we might have to draw on?
10-12 SEPTEMBER 2014
Participants
| Joseph Abgakoba | University of Nigeria |
| Martin Ajei | University of Ghana, Legon, Accra |
| Ciro Alegría | PUC del Perú, Lima |
| Luiz Bernardo Araújo | Universidade Estadual de Rio de Janeiro, Brasilien |
| Neera Chandhoke | University of Delhi, Indien |
| Jau-hwa Chen | Soochow University, Taiwan |
| Pochung Chow | The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China |
| Jiwei Ci | University of Hong Kong, China |
| Esack Farid | University of Johannesburg, Südafrika |
| Joao Feres | Universidade Estadual de Rio de Janeiro, Brasilien |
| Katrin Flickschuh | London School of Economics, England |
| María Pía Lara | Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexiko |
| Helen Lauer | University of Ghana |
| Juan Espíndola Mata | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
| Bernard Matolino | University of Kwa zulu Natal, Pietermaritzburg, Südafrika |
| Pratap Bhanu | Center for Policy Research, Delhi, Indien |
| Soumaya Mestiri | Uni Tunis, Tunesien |
| Marcos Nobre | Unicamp, Campinas, Sao Paolo, Brasilien |
| Peter Osimiri | University of Lagos, Nigeria |
| Heba Raouf Ezzat | Uni Kairo, Ägypten |
| Haiming Wen | Renmin University of China |
| Melissa Williams | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Lea Ypi | London School of Economics, England |
| Zhao Tingyang | China Academy of Social Sciences, China |