The USAID Rule of Law Program organized a lecture on People-Centered Justice (PCJ) and Court-Community Engagement, which was attended by forty students and academic staff from Shota Rustaveli Batumi State University.

The session was led by Dr. Tim Bunjevac, the Community Engagement Advisor at the USAID Rule of Law Program. He presented court-community engagement practices from around the world and introduced the concepts and theory of PCJ. The participants were educated about successful examples of court outreach activities designed to increase public trust in the courts.

Dr. Bunjevac elaborated on the concept of PCJ, including relevant theory and design approaches, and discussed strategies for increasing courts' engagement with different court communities.

The session included an exploration of the differences between traditional and problem-solving courts, the five levers of Human-Centered Design in the courts, possible areas for expanding court-community engagement outside the courts, examples of court-community surveys, the roles and functions of court-community advisory boards, and opportunities for involving a range of external stakeholders to support court-community engagement.

The participants showed keen interest in attending similar public lectures organized by the Rule of Law Program in the future.