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29 April 2019

Broad Anti-Corruption Programs Are the Wrong Approach

By Mark Pyman The Corruption in Fragile States Blog welcomes back Mark Pyman, founder of the sector-based corruption reform website...

26 November 2018

Changing Social Norms: What Anti-Corruption Practitioners Should Read

By Hope Schaitkin New material on social norms change seems to be appearing every week. It can be hard to keep up with it, let alone...

1 July 2018

When Not to Call a Spade a Spade: The Importance of Quiet Anti-Corruption Initiatives

By Sabina Robillard with Louino Robillard Corruption is a complex adaptive system – it does not stay still while being attacked, but...

27 February 2018

The Big Shift That Police and Justice Professionals Need to Make in Fragile States

By Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church When operating in fragile states, donors and implementers working in the police, justice and corrections...

1 April 2019

Three Reasons Why Actors in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States Must Stop Ignoring Social Norms

By Diana Chigas and Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church As OECD Knowledge Partners, we originally presented these ideas at the 2019 OECD Integrity...

10 October 2018

The Elementary Problem That Undermines Social Change Programming: Word of Warning to Anti-Corruption

By Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church and Hope Schaitkin There is increasing interest in understanding the role social norms play (or see here or...

20 June 2018

Corruption That Kills: How Corruption is Undermining Peace and Democracy in Mexico

By Talia Hagerty and Carlos Juárez Cruz Mexico is about to face the biggest test to peace and democracy it has seen in decades – and endemic...

29 January 2018

Two Insights from an Experiment in Collective Corruption Resistance

By Kiely Barnard-Webster and Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church With every experimental action, there needs to be feedback (informal and formal...

4 March 2019

Anti-Corruption Programs — Know Your Crowd!

By Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church & Diana Chigas Social norms exist within a group. They represent mutual expectations, not just common...

18 September 2018

Why We Need to Connect Peacebuilding and Illicit Financial Flows: A Global Approach

By James Cohen In the spring of 2016, while working at the US Institute of Peace, I was part of a well-attended meeting to discuss...

12 June 2018

When Your Project’s Success Gets a “So What?” in Response

By Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church Understanding success isn’t easy at the best of times in complex environments. But when change is achieved...

18 January 2018

What Worked: Fighting Corruption Through Collective Action

By Kiely Barnard-Webster The central contribution of the Network [for its members] is that members no longer feel alone in the fight...

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