Abstract
In this chapter, I propose a conceptual approach to accountability that advocates for social justice. Accountability refers to the importance of informed and engaged decision-making, building on critical approaches to research and on dialogic approaches to listening and learning, understanding the value of voice. Advocacy in this framework references a comprehensive and critical approach to inquiry. Advocating with accountability for social justice is grounded in perspectives of development that privilege social justice, of accountability that focuses on critical inquiry, and of advocacy that highlights the politics of intervention. Given this conceptual framework, I propose building a Social Justice Institute for Critical Engagement (Just-ICE) as a way to engage learning and addressing significant social problems.