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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 September 2022
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16, Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions, is both the most legal and the most political sustainable development goal. Not only does it underpin all the other SDGs, it concerns the makeup of the whole international system. For reformers, SDG 16 looks promising by putting governance, justice, and accountability at the centre of development. Disappointingly, however, the targets and indicators often reduce the goal, sometimes beyond recognition. By and large, SDG 16 leaves the fragmented international political and legal order as it is. Nevertheless, SDG 16 has a rhetorical potential beyond its nitty-gritty content, and its malleability enables interpretations that go beyond those intended by states.
SDG 16, access to justice, rule of law, good governance, governing by indicators, inclusion, fragmentation
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