We are facing a pandemic of injustice. In recent times, millions of people have been taking to the streets around the world demanding an end to injustice, inequality and impunity. This demand is for the transformation of entire legal, political, economic and social structures and institutions that have long been indifferent to the social and economic inequalities and the injustices they seed. Responding to the justice demand and realising the transformative potential of justice for sustained peace and development requires policy makers and practitioners to rethink traditional conceptions and approaches to justice, to embrace complexity, and to have the courage to think and act differently in today’s uncertain world. This brief explores three trends in justice and development and their collective potential to enable better analysis, understanding and ultimately transformation of unjust and unequal systems.