Nowadays, it is important to know that the intervention of paralegals or facilitators of right at the level of local authorities (village chiefs, traditional and/or customary authorities) is getting necessary for an alternative resolution of local conflicts.
This experience aims at bringing nearer citizens and justice in a general way. It’s to get citizens be in keeping with and informed about the access to justice, the ways and procedures of right, the starting of intermediation and reconciliation mechanisms founded on sustainable values of confirmation and arbitration and finally about the deep knowledge of proximity authorities. This new work with the actors of the civil society is taking more and more a predominant place in the environment of legal empowerment in Mali. In this way, this process, become an absolute must, constitutes an opportunity for civic education operators to grasp all the possible alternatives in order to reinforce Paralegals credibility on the field. The question is notably to develop a method and strategy of intervention at various levels such as :
- Integrating Paralegals training curriculum validated by the civil society organizations and the different ministers (Justice, Territorial Administration, Woman’s, Child’s and Family’s Promotion Minister) in 2006 in favour of Paralegals capacity reinforcement in the justice sector. It is noticeable that the curriculum consists of nine (9) themes taking into account the priority axes of Paralegals intervention in Mali (democracy, Justice, women’s and children’s rights, conflicts resolution,).
- Taking into account the charter of justice values adopted in 2007, that defines a new dynamics of justice distribution. In considering the commitment and the will to change the new behaviour of justice family members. This charter is based on five (05) articles with principles founded on democracy and State of right.
- Taking into account the Pact for legal empowerment adopted in 2008, including 06 fundamental principles and 24 ideas of actions with a strong and listed impact during workshops and synthesized for the needs of the revival pact.
It is noticeable that this process of legal empowerment in Mali constitutes a beginning of change of the justice perspectives towards others and that of the others towards justice. The basic question is to know whether this evolution is an opportunity for Paralegals being created in Mali. The answer is yes. However, Paralegals challenge as well as alternative to a right of practice is real but difficult. It’s a long task quest strewn of traps, constraints and challenges,
It’s an opportunity that Paralegals must seize; they are new actors in the process of bringing nearer justice and people subjects to be tried. This must be concretely translated by a better mastery by Paralegals of the main texts through technical methods in local languages. With the intervention of the NGO Eveil in the Mopti region (Mali), many Paralegals passed through a stage by occupying these last years practical functions in the distribution of voting cards, assessors of polling stations during election processes and as village councillors with the renewal of village councils mandates in 2008. They plan to go further by trying to become assistants near courts within the implementation of the new legal card mapping in Mali. This legal card mapping being identified will permit to create courts of first instance and new jurisdictions in the country.
This is why Paralegals can make theirs this assertion : “Speaking is nothing else than speaking but power lies in action” And may the process of legal empowerment come into practice.
This experience aims at bringing nearer citizens and justice in a general way. It’s to get citizens be in keeping with and informed about the access to justice, the ways and procedures of right, the starting of intermediation and reconciliation mechanisms founded on sustainable values of confirmation and arbitration and finally about the deep knowledge of proximity authorities. This new work with the actors of the civil society is taking more and more a predominant place in the environment of legal empowerment in Mali. In this way, this process, become an absolute must, constitutes an opportunity for civic education operators to grasp all the possible alternatives in order to reinforce Paralegals credibility on the field. The question is notably to develop a method and strategy of intervention at various levels such as :
- Integrating Paralegals training curriculum validated by the civil society organizations and the different ministers (Justice, Territorial Administration, Woman’s, Child’s and Family’s Promotion Minister) in 2006 in favour of Paralegals capacity reinforcement in the justice sector. It is noticeable that the curriculum consists of nine (9) themes taking into account the priority axes of Paralegals intervention in Mali (democracy, Justice, women’s and children’s rights, conflicts resolution,).
- Taking into account the charter of justice values adopted in 2007, that defines a new dynamics of justice distribution. In considering the commitment and the will to change the new behaviour of justice family members. This charter is based on five (05) articles with principles founded on democracy and State of right.
- Taking into account the Pact for legal empowerment adopted in 2008, including 06 fundamental principles and 24 ideas of actions with a strong and listed impact during workshops and synthesized for the needs of the revival pact.
It is noticeable that this process of legal empowerment in Mali constitutes a beginning of change of the justice perspectives towards others and that of the others towards justice. The basic question is to know whether this evolution is an opportunity for Paralegals being created in Mali. The answer is yes. However, Paralegals challenge as well as alternative to a right of practice is real but difficult. It’s a long task quest strewn of traps, constraints and challenges,
It’s an opportunity that Paralegals must seize; they are new actors in the process of bringing nearer justice and people subjects to be tried. This must be concretely translated by a better mastery by Paralegals of the main texts through technical methods in local languages. With the intervention of the NGO Eveil in the Mopti region (Mali), many Paralegals passed through a stage by occupying these last years practical functions in the distribution of voting cards, assessors of polling stations during election processes and as village councillors with the renewal of village councils mandates in 2008. They plan to go further by trying to become assistants near courts within the implementation of the new legal card mapping in Mali. This legal card mapping being identified will permit to create courts of first instance and new jurisdictions in the country.
This is why Paralegals can make theirs this assertion : “Speaking is nothing else than speaking but power lies in action” And may the process of legal empowerment come into practice.
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