Whispers in the margins: conflict, crime and corruption at CoSP11
The reasons this critically toxic nexus receives so little attention gurgled to the fore during The Corruption and Organized Crime Across the Conflict Cycle panel –– one of the four side events (out of 125!) giving it attention at CoSP11.
2025: In the Midst of Global Disruption, Incisive Thinking Persists
The anti-corruption field could not avoid being heavily hit by the slew of brutal executive orders of the new US administration. Around the world, programs were being slashed, heads were rolling, and livelihoods were being endangered. Apart from the termination of our Ugandan social norms change
program, many of our partners and colleagues were also waking up to all forms of cancellations, terminations and freezing.
Corruption has a gender: Why paying attention to gender norms is good for anti-corruption
It is clear that if anti-corruption efforts ignore gender norms, they risk missing what animates so much corrupt behavior and what prevents people from resisting it. We now have better evidence, frameworks, and tools to understand and treat gender norms as core corruption drivers — not just as an obligatory add-on.
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