The Strategic Analysis Centre of the Institute of Justice is a specialized organizational unit of the Institute of Justice, established by order of the Director of the Institute of Justice of 5 December 2016.
The activities of the Strategic Analysis Centre of the Institute of Justice are managed by the Coordinator of the Strategic Analysis Centre appointed by the Director of the Institute of Justice.
Goals and activities
The tasks carried out by the Strategic Analysis Centre of the Institute of Justice include, inter alia, monitoring and developing medium and long-term strategies in the area of operation of the Institute of Justice, whose subject of activity (§ 3 of the Institute of Justice Statute) is to conduct research on the creation, application, axiology and social functioning of law and the phenomena of crime and social pathology, as well as disseminating the results of these studies, and legal education.
The Strategic Analysis Centre of the Institute of Justice achieves its statutory objectives by implementing, coordinating, carrying out and monitoring works of strategic and research importance on the shape of the Polish legal order, the functioning of the judiciary in Poland and other countries, carried out in order to improve the legislation in Poland, also through the implementation of national and international research projects, coordination of cooperation with external experts, international cooperation, organization of conferences, seminars, courses, as well as the implementation of activities in the field of legal and civic education.
Outcomes of international cooperation
As part of the activities of the Strategic Analysis Centre of the Institute of Justice, international cooperation has been undertaken with research units and institutes recognized on a European and global scale, the main research subject of which is legal issues. So far, cooperation has been established with Harvard Business School, SRI International (Stanford Research Institute), MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), China Europe International Business School and IESE Business School.
Cooperation with foreign research units and institutes resulted in the development of, inter alia, the following:
1) Scientific Publications:
- Scientific monograph “Responsibility for negating international crimes”
- Scientific monograph “Legal protection of the freedom of conscience and religion
- Scientific monograph “Identification of the causes of crime”
- Scientific monograph “Crime prevention methods”
- Scientific monograph “Implementation of methods and instruments of crime prevention in the organization”
- Scientific monograph “Possible causes and types of crime in the organization in the future and preventive preparations”
- Scientific monograph. „Report on selected solutions of law, business and technologies preventing crimes”
- Scientific monograph . „Energy Market”
- Scientific monograph „Financial Market”
- Scientific monograph. „Insurance Market”
- Scientific monoraph „Managing people in the organization”
2) Conferences and seminars:
The Centre for Strategic Analysis of the Institute of Justice supports the activities of the Institute of Justice in the field of close cooperation with Hungarian Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law in the field of legal research. The aim of the planned research work is primarily to strengthen the position of the Central European region in expert debates in the field of legal sciences and to develop solutions in the field of matters related to the transparency of the work of international courts, protection of the family in international law and freedom of conscience and religion in Europe. Scientific cooperation with the Ferenc Mádla Institute of Comparative Law will be an opportunity to exchange research experiences and develop new, universal and comprehensive answers to legal issues.
International cooperation allows for a comparative approach and analysis of legal regulations existing under international law and the normative orders of other countries, as well as an examination of the social context of their functioning, which may contribute to the improvement of Polish legal regulations by adjusting foreign patterns to the standards resulting from the Polish legal order taking into account the native social context. A comparative approach and the involvement of foreign research centres in cooperation gives the opportunity to exchange experiences between experts from different parts of the world, which undoubtedly allows for broadening the perspective and gives the opportunity to work out the best solutions. As part of international cooperation, scientific and research teams are being formed gathering experts from Poland and foreign scientific and research units, including researchers specializing in legal sciences, but also from other than legal sciences fields of science, which gives the opportunity for an interdisciplinary and comprehensive approach to the explored issues. The interdisciplinary approach going beyond the field of law gives the opportunity to acquire knowledge crucial for the functioning of law also in other scientific fields related to a given issue, thanks to which given legal issues are consulted with representatives of sciences other than only legal one.
Research projects implemented by the Strategic Analysis Centre
The following research projects were carried out at the Strategic Analysis Centre of the Institute of Justice:
1. “Law, economy and technology for preventing the causes of crime”;
2. “For religious freedom in the modern world. Counteracting the causes of discrimination and helping the persecuted on the example of Christians ”
3. “Polish contribution to the development of international criminal law, including the court of international crimes”;
4. “Research project on the assumptions of the strategy for the development of digital services for the common judiciary in Poland”;
5. “Cybersecurity of the Visegrad Group for the prevention of the causes of crime”;
6. “Integrated System of Prevention of Domestic Violence”;
7. “Jurisprudence of district military courts in political matters – an attempt to settle accounts from the perspective of transitional justice”,
8. “Polish-Hungarian Research Platform”.
Activities in the field of legal and civic education
In the field of legal and civic education, the Strategic Analysis Center of the Institute of Justice organized or participated in the organization of the following initiatives:
3. Competition for the best paper in the field of strategic communication
4. Law and Justice Knowledge Contest
Please contact the Strategic Analysis Centre of the Institute of Justice via e-mail: cas.iws@iws.gov.pl
Law, economy and technology for preventing the causes of crime
For religious freedom in the modern world. Counteracting the causes of discrimination and helping the persecuted on the example of Christians
Polish contribution to the development of international criminal law, including contribution to the trial of international crimes
Research project on the assumptions for the strategy for the development of digital services for the common judiciary in Poland
Cybersecurity of the Visegrad Group for the prevention of the causes of crime
Integrated System of Prevention of Domestic Violence
Polish-Hungarian Research Platform
Jurisprudence of district military courts in political matters – an attempt to settle accounts from the perspective of transitional justice
