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Altus is a global alliance working across continents and from a multicultural perspective to improve public safety and justice.
In April 2004, six established NGOs and academic centers joined together to form a unique alliance called Altus. With members spanning five continents, Altus offers a truly global perspective on issues of safety and justice, a greater capacity to work across borders, and a larger role for civil society in advancing justice.
Altus members are distinguished by their close work with government to study social problems and explore new ways of delivering justice collaborations that produce practical reforms of benefit to ordinary people. Drawing on the knowledge and resources of the member organizations, Altus helps public officials identify or develop empirically tested models of respectful policing, quality legal services for the poor, and other good practices that fit local needs. Altus also helps NGOs around the world work more effectively with government and play a larger role in shaping rights-conscious solutions to problems of injustice.
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For scholars, Altus offers a new body of comparative knowledge about safety and justice as well as cross-cultural research methods and tools. And for donors, Altus provides an efficient vehicle to connect visionaries and reformers around the world and make progress on issues of global importance.
Twenty years ago, practical reform of justice systems rarely crossed geographic and political boundaries, and solutions could not transcend differences between civil and common law traditions. Today those boundaries are evaporating. The Altus members formed an alliance because commonalities in the delivery of justice in countries around the world today are already more important than the differences, and because greater justice anywhere can spur change around the world.
Explore how Altus is contributing to the field of safety and justice on this web site.
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