Draft:Global Justice Index Report

Global Justice Index Report has been published annually by Chinese Political Science Review under Springer Nature since 2019. It is created by the multiyear research project, Global Justice Index, at the Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences (Fudan IAS) to conceptualize and measure each country’s contribution to achieve greater global justice across the world.

Based on its conceptualization and measurement of global justice, Global Justice Index Report currently provides data on ten dimensions of global justice, and quantitatively measures the performance and contribution of nation-states around the world in ten issue-areas: (1) climate change (global warming), (2) peacekeeping, (3) humanitarian aid, (4) terrorism and armed conflicts, (5) cross-national criminal police cooperation, (6) refugees, (7) anti-poverty, (8) education, (9) public health, and (10) the protection of women and children.

Global Justice Index
Global Justice Index (GJI) was founded in 2018 by Professor Sujian Guo as a director’s strategic initiative of the Fudan IAS. Global Justice Index study began with the conceptualization of global justice based on a theoretical paper titled “Conceptualizing and Measuring Global Justice: Theories, Concepts, Principles and Indicators,” co-authored by the project leader, Sujian Guo, published in Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences.

GJI claims to make the following contributions: (1) the global justice index is arguably the first attempt to measure the performance and contribution of nation states to enhance justice at the global level; (2) it offers a reference point for those who want to track progress of global justice and study changes over time; (3) the index is a barometer for the international community to implement and monitor global justice in different issue areas, enabling international organizations and policymakers to target resources and design policies more effectively; and (4) it can be used either as an analytical tool to compare global justice issues across nations or as a dependent variable in causal analysis. Given these contributions, Global Justice Index Report has been receiving growing attention from scholars in humanitarian aid, poverty reduction , public health , public policy ,  armed conflicts , and international relations  , among other fields.

GJI Country Rankings
In GJI’s 2020 Index Report for 2018, the top ten countries are the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, China, Sweden, Norway, Canada, Belgium, Finland, and Italy. By contrast, in GJI’s 2022 Index Report for 2020 that covers all 10 issues, the top 10 countries in the ranking are the United States, China, Germany, the UK, Sweden, France, Canada, Italy, Brazil, and India. Compared to the top 10 countries in 2018, France, Brazil, and India are new entrants to the top 10 in 2020. Of these three countries, France was not ranked for lack of data for 2010, and Brazil and India rose from the nineteenth and forty-fourth positions in 2018 to the ninth and tenth in 2020, respectively. By contrast, Norway, Finland, and Belgium dropped from the sixth, eighth, and tenth places in 2018 to the twelfth, eleventh, and fourteenth in 2020, falling out of the top 10. The bottom 10 countries are Ukraine, Estonia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Colombia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Viet Nam, and Uzbekistan. Of these seven are in Asia, two are in Europe, and one is in Latin America. The changes in global ranking should be updated annually based on the forthcoming GJI annual reports.