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■ Establish Leadership and Trust: A regional meeting of superior court
judges was organized to present the research findings and discuss how to
address the judicial bias that the research identified. Civil society organizations
were also invited to present the reality of issues such as Violence Against

Women and discuss solutions. Because there was strong support of the Chief
Justice of India on the research findings and the meeting, and high quality
resource persons who were judges themselves were involved in the meeting,
the nature of the meeting was judges talking with judges. This was crucial
in establishing trust among participants and encouraging the leadership
of judges. As a result, the judges recommended the establishment of the
Asia-Pacific Forum on Judicial Education on Equality Issues to develop a
judicial gender equality education programme.
■ Design and Delivery: A Management Team comprised of Judges/NGO

representatives from each country as well as advisors was established to oversee
the operations of the Forum. The Management Team agreed on the judicial
education approach, designed implementation plans, and became responsible
for monitoring and evaluating progress. There was also a Resource Faculty
Development team that developed various tools (role playing, group discussions,
field visits, theatre, dance etc) to be used in delivering the education
programme (now packaged into çWalking Wisdomé. A creative equality

education handbook for judicial education). The team also organized the
training of trainers to build up resource persons (faculty) among the judges
participating in the Forum. Now there are many judges in South Asia that
serve as resource persons for in-country and regional workshops.

After Judge Campbell and Ms. Naina Kapurùs presentations, the participants were asked to
think about what they may need to do to start a gender equality judicial education programme
in their own countries. They were guided to think of the following areas of action, modeled after the
experience in South Asia:

■ Pilot research
■ Long-Term research
■ Diplomatic support building (meaning building support of their superiors
and peers)
■ Resource faculty development
■ Regional meeting

■ In-country judicial education Programme
■ Hard copy (meaning developing publication)