Towards Multibeing Justice. Humanity and Human Responsibility in Indigenous Societies

Valkonen, Sanna UL; Viikari, Lotta UL; Virtanen, Pirjo UH

In Indigenous thought, as well as political and legal orders, humans and their social worlds are indivisible from the environment: humans co-construct shared societies with other beings.

The Centre of Excellence Towards Multibeing Justice. Humanity and Human Responsibility in Indigenous Societies studies the ultimate human responsibility for ensuring a good and just life for all life forms. The CoE is developing the concept of multibeing justice to encapsulate both Indigenous understandings of justice, which are rooted in relational ontologies, and the potential for this perspective to radically rethink Western legal frameworks. The CoE’s transdisciplinary research draws on Indigenous thought, knowledge systems and conceptual frameworks, which are brought into dialogue with human, social, environmental and legal sciences.