Justice for GCE: Human, social, cosmopolitan or multi-faceted? A brief comment on Yusef Waghid and Emiliano Bosio’s ‘Global citizenship education and claims of human justice’

While acknowledging the valuable contribution to global citizenship education (GCE) by Yusef Waghid and Emiliano Bosio’s article, I respond to it by indicating the need for a broader, stereoscopic optic on justice. This optic enables perception of justice-sensitive foreign policies and expands the GCE prism beyond the human and social–democratic justice scope toward ecological and territorial sensibilities. Thus, although I wholeheartedly endorse Waghid and Bosio’s plea for GCE’s cultivating social and democratic justice, I argue that a more comprehensive conception of justice is required for addressing international-right issues (e.g., Palestine or Cyprus). Issues which involve territorial-cosmopolitan challenges (e.g., settlers and illegal occupation of land) compel expansion of GCE’s current conceptual, normative and practical toolkit beyond democratic and social justice. A preview of Waghid and Bosio’s article was shared with me in advance for the purpose of preparing this commentary, with the intention that the article, commentary, and response be released concurrently.