Praani is bringing ecological wellbeing and everyday coexistence into our justice systems

What if courts made coexistence part of how justice is defined?

What if new evidentiary paradigms could make justice fairer for all life?

What if we could bring the voice of other beings into our justice systems?

A long-standing tendency of treating the living world as separate from human life has shaped public decisions and justice systems, even as it has become harder to maintain fidelity to that separation in the world we are living through. That common sense is beginning to loosen, and this moment matters because new openings are appearing at once, in how we think, what we can know, and what we can prove. There is a mutually illuminating interplay between long-standing community practices of coexistence, technological advances, and burgeoning movements that are pushing law to hear the voices of the living world more seriously, widening the terms of evidence and accountability. Alongside this, multidisciplinary collaboration is becoming easier to build and sustain, making it more possible for researchers, practitioners, communities, and legal actors to work together in ways that can move systems. The opportunity is to turn these momentous shifts into justice pathways that institutions can use, and into a planetary listening exercise that law and governance can use in everyday justice practise. Praani builds on and advances these ideas, helping legal and justice systems meet this moment and shape shared futures where ecological well-being is treated as a core concern for justice.

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