Peace, Justice and Strong institutions is goal number 16 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and underlines the need to build peaceful and inclusive societies for the purpose of sustainable development, which allows universal access to justice and to build accountable and effective institutions at all levels. It is about promoting civic activism which, in the 3 dimensions of conscious information, expression and common action, makes citizens capable of exercising responsibility towards public policies in order to make all civil and political rights effective, protect the common good and support the weakest and most vulnerable. The primary objective is to stimulate citizens to critically address national and international problems, understand their origins in order to identify shared solutions to be proposed to public opinion and institutions, through dialogue and discussion. Sharing and common growth which, by intertwining the theme of citizenship with that of equality and democracy, can achieve the goals of "significantly reducing all forms of violence and the related mortality rate everywhere" (target 16.1 ) by promoting the consolidation of the rule of law (16.3) through effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels (16.6) that ensure “responsible, open to all, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels” (16.7).
