Mainstreaming
Mainstreaming the Rule of Law
The WJP's Mainstreaming is an initiative to advance the rule of law into the work of a variety of disciplines, such as the arts, architecture, business, education, engineering, environment, faith, finance, government, human rights, labor, law and the judiciary, media, public safety, public health, and science. The WJP's mainstreaming efforts include action-oriented multidisciplinary meetings and the Opportunity Fund.
Here is a sample of what WJP mainstreaming meeting participants from around the world (PDF) had to say about the impact of the rule of law.
The WJP holds action-oriented meetings with leaders from a range of fields to mainstream rule of law advancement and make strengthening the rule of law as fundamental to the thinking and work of all professionals as it is to lawyers. These action-oriented meetings are both convened in the United States and internationally.
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International Mainstreaming. The WJP has followed a multi-pronged strategy to engage the expertise and build the commitment of leaders from numerous disciplines on a worldwide basis.
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World Justice Forum. The inaugural World Justice Forum was held in Vienna, Austria on July 2-5, 2008. The second World Justice Forum took place on November 11-14, 2009 also in Vienna, Austria. The World Justice Forum III was held on June 20 - 23, 2011 in Barcelona, Spain.
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Regional meetings. The WJP convenes regional action-oriented multidisciplinary meetings to strengthen the rule of law. These meetings identify crucial areas where collaborative, cross-disciplinary efforts will advance the rule of law. The WJP held multidisciplinary outreach meeting on five continents with participants from 71 countries prior to the 2008 World Justice Forum, and held an additional regional meeting in Cape Town, South Africa on May 6 - 7, 2009. The WJP convened regional multidisciplinary outreach meetings for the Middle East and North Africa region in Ifrane, Morocco, on June 25-26, 2010, and for Latin America and the Caribbean in Lima, Peru, on September 8-10, 2010. A regional outreach meeting for the Asia Pacific region took place on January 26-28, 2011 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Mainstreaming in the United States. In more than 20 states across the nation, state and local bar associations, law schools and other local leaders have worked with the WJP to sponsor state-level multidisciplinary outreach meetings to form multidisciplinary partnerships to strengthen the rule of law at the state and community level. In addition to other distinguished leaders and experts from around the world, we deeply appreciate the participation of the following Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States in The World Justice Project: Stephen Breyer, Sandra Day O'Connor (retired), Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Anthony Kennedy, and Antonin Scalia.
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The Opportunity Fund is the WJP's seed grants program for multidisciplinary approaches to strengthening the rule of law worldwide. The Opportunity Fund supports action-oriented programs conceived by multidisciplinary coalitions formed at World Justice Forums and regional action-oriented meetings. These collaborative projects to strengthen the rule of law involve two or more disciplines, and each seed grant funded program is designed to address a concrete problem facing the grantee’s disciplines and/or region.
