CJL NEWS

CJL Co-Director Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church recently presented to USAID on the link between social norms and corruption.

CJL and PIC Meet and Collaborate in Nigeria on the intersection of Gender Norms, Faith Norms, Social Norms, and Corrupt Behaviors in the Health Sector.

Diana Chigas of the Corruption, Justice and Legitimacy Program was interviewed by Faculti on the topic of social norms relating to anti-corruption.

Our newest Working Paper explores the possibility of using generic systems maps that represent “common patterns” of corruption to speed up the process of systems analysis to move on to the design of anti-corruption interventions swiftly.

CJL’s Co-Director presents our thoughts on the challenges of anti-corruption development assistance and how donors can inadvertently exacerbate conflict and undermine their own development goals

A stakeholder analysis is applicable to anti-corruption and integrity programs, development and peacebuilding programs, and any other field that has reducing corruption as one objective. This new working paper offers how this process can aid in identifying corrupt practices.

From social norms to conflict sensitivity to systems analysis, we will be sharing resources and communications on all of these and other anti-corruption themes in the coming months.

CJL’s new working paper details how anti-corruption programs can unintentionally exacerbate conflict and seeks input to better understand this under-examined phenomenon

Besa Global’s Diana Chigas and Lara Olson recently presented to the Alliance for Peacebuilding on the connection between anti-corruption and peacebuilding

CJL's Diana Chigas and Peter Woodrow were recently invited by USAID to present on systems thinking.

New literature review seeking to address a gap in the field by answering two key questions:
What do we know about the social norms that drive corrupt behaviors among civil servants in contexts of endemic corruption?
In these contexts, what do we know about how to change the social norms that drive corruption among civil servants?

In a recent episode of the Securityscape podcast, CJL’s Co-Directors, Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church and Diana Chigas, discuss the links between corruption and conflict.