Justice Deficit Systemic Disorder and the Global Human Rights Project

2022-09-28

The Justice Deficit Systemic Disorder (JDSD) means the disorder created in all systems that constitute a society or a nation due to a deficit or near absence of the justice factor. The justice deficit transforms all public institutions. The justice deficit alters the very meaning of the law. When the law is divorced from justice, it transforms the very nature of the public institutions. These institutions cease to be public institutions capable of carrying out public duties. 

Such institutions become privatised, and lose the links to public norms and standards. That way, it becomes impossible for these institutions to operate on the principles of the supremacy of the law or the rule of law. Thus, the disorder results from public institutions becoming disenabled to operate through a just system of laws. Such disenabling becomes systemic, thus creating systemic injustice. Systemic injustice in turn creates systemic irrationality. Systemic irrationality, once it enters into the operations of public institutions, creates disorder and chaos throughout all the systems of the State.

Above is a short summing up of my experience of the obstacles to the protection and the promotion of human rights under the prevailing circumstances, generally in the world, but mostly in developing countries. In that short paragraph, I have summed up my conclusion on the basis of work done under various circumstances, under various different countries, under different political regimes and circumstances, and perhaps most importantly, under very different cultural contexts, for nearly 40 years.

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