World Justice Forum
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The World Justice Forum is the largest international event hosted by The World Justice Project
World Justice Project
-Mainstreaming:The World Justice Project 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...

. It is a global gathering at which prominent leaders from all parts of the world and a variety of disciplines come together to articulate how the rule of law affects their disciplines and regions and to develop collaborative actions to strengthen the rule of law.



The overall purpose of the Forum is to incubate informed and practical action-oriented programs designed and executed by multi-disciplinary groups in their respective communities. Informed by keynote speeches, Rule of Law Index results, and other presentations, participants meet in disciplinary and regional breakout sessions to develop such programs. The Forum continues The World Justice Project’s progress in stimulating multidisciplinary collaborations to strengthen the rule of law, build new partnerships, and identify best practices for dissemination and replication.



World Justice Forum I

Held in Vienna, Austria on July 2–5th 2008, The World Justice Project held an inaugural forum of global specialists, more than 450 governmental and non-governmental leaders from 83 nations from throughout the Pacific, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and North America.




World Justice Forum II

The World Justice Forum II took place November 11–14, 2009 in Vienna, Austria. This second worldwide gathering hosted by The World Justice Project was attended by 312 participants from 84 countries and a multitude of disciplines – including architecture, the arts, business, education, environment, government, faith, human rights, international development, labor, media, military, public health, public safety, science.




World Justice Forum III

Building on the success of the previous two World Justice Forums, as well as regional outreach meetings in Africa, South America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America, the World Justice Forum III will take place from June 20–23, 2011 in Barcelona, Spain at the Hotel Rey Juan Carlos I.

This action-oriented event aspires to bring together over 450 world leaders from a breadth of disciplines to: promote an interdisciplinary understanding of rule of law issues; strengthen global commitment to the rule of law; and to develop concrete cross-disciplinary action plans on the community level.

The three-day program will include project design working sessions where participants will collaborate on ideas to strengthen the rule of law in areas of mutual interest. In addition, discussants will address eight timely rule of law issues during concurrent plenary sessions. For more information, visit www.wjp-forum.org.
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