In September 2015 the United Nations formally announced the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will be the international development framework that will replace the current Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The seventeen proposed goals and associated targets are planned to run until 2030. Among them, Goal 16 (https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg16) focuses on peaceful and inclusive societies, access to justice, rights-based development and accountable institutions. Examples of targets include significantly reducing all forms of violence; ending abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence and torture against children; promoting the rule of law at the national and international levels, and ensuring equal access to justice for all; by 2030 significantly reducing illicit financial and arms flows, strengthening recovery and return of stolen assets, and combating all forms of organized crime; and substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all its forms. These are the social conditions we will address in this seminar. There is a take-home midterm to be completed in 3 days. There is also a 5000 word research paper in which you select a social condition (e.g., human trafficking), determine the causes for this condition, and evaluate the programs that have been developed and implemented to improve this social condition.