Natural Justice in Africa

Behavioral ethics meets natural justice

Binmore’s Natural Justice offers an evolutionary approach to morality, in which moral rules form a cultural system that is robust and evolutionarily stable. The folk theorem is the analytical basis for his theory of justice. I argue that this is a mistake, as the equilibria described by the folk theorem lack dynamic stability in games with several players. While the dependence of Binmore’s argu...

Religion in education in South Africa: was social justice served?

The promulgation of South African policy regarding the place of religion in public education was delayed until 2003, after a lively debate. The National Policy on Religion in Education effectively banned confessional, sectarian religion from public schools, but allowed for the teaching of Religion Studies as an academic subject and for religious observances, on condition that these were offered...

Community-Based Justice in Northern Ireland and South Africa

natural justice as the basis for natural peace

despite its matchless impact and age-old functioning in the establishment of peace all through the history, the theory of natural law remains neglected among the popular theories at the international level. domination of legal positivism, and schools of its like, has always blocked any natural healing to the ailing condition of the contemporary international system, hence some artificial and fe...

Natural Law, Justice and Democracy-Some Reflections on Three Types of Thinking About Law and Justice