Training activity: “Prejudices and unilateral cognitivess in the judicial process”

The School of Magistrates, on 10-11 December, 2024, in cooperation with EIPA, European Institute of Public Administration, in the support of the Program of Technical Assistance of Luxembourg for Albania, organizes, at the School of Magistrates, in Tirana, the training activity on topic: 

“Prejudices and unilateral cognitivess in the judicial process.”

This activity is led by: 

Experts:  Juan Diego Ramírez-Cárdenas Díaz, Superior lecturer,  EIPA Luxembourg 

Frank Lavadoux, Superior lecturer,  , EIPA Maastricht

Prof. Sokol Berberi- Lecturer for the Program of Initial Formation at the School of Magistrates. 

The purpose of this training is: 

To increase the awareness of participants for concepts of prejudices of unconscious partialness,  their impact on perceptions and conducts, and to provide instruments for their identification and mitigation. At the end of the module the focus will be on the manifestation of these phenomena in the specific context of judicial decision-making.  This approach will serve to a double purpose: firstly, to underline how these impacts may endanger the partialness of judicial sentences and secondly, to explore efficient techniques for the detection and minimization of prejudices during the examination of legal issues. This final reflection intends to provide for participants practical tools to consolidate the objectiveness in their professional practice.

The training will be interactive being alternated with theoretical data, practical exercises, study cases, role play and discussions in group, as well as will be used different  support tools ( such as videos, questionnaires, etc.,) to promote learning from experience. 

In this training activity were elaborated different topics, such as:  

• Definitions and differences between prejudices and unconscious prejudices; cognitive and origin of prejudices. 
• Presentation of the main kinds of prejudices (stereotypes, prejudices, confirmations, etc.); The impact of prejudices in decision – making and in interpersonal relations.
• Introduction to the concept of emotional intelligence; Implicit Association Test (IAT) to detect someone’s prejudices. 
• Strategies for the identification and reduction of prejudices to prevent their impact in the judicial/prosecutorial decision – making. 

In this training activity participate candidates for magistrate of the Republic of Albania.