Best of 2020
Research Assistant Malavika Krishnan recaps the top five most read posts on the Corruption in Fragile States Blog in 2020. Read more to see which posts caught our readers’ eyes!
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Corruption as a System
Follow the Money, Stop Misinformation and Support Innovation: Accountability during COVID
In this post, we spoke to Cheri-Leigh Erasmus, the Global Learning Director of Accountability Lab to know more about how Accountability Lab has reacted to the number of challenges thrown at them by the pandemic and how their anti-corruption/accountability programming has adapted to it.
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The Cost of Democracy: How Dark Money is Funding Democratic Backsliding
Over the last few weeks, we have read a number of reports about how the presidential elections in the United States of America have been marred by a number of “irregularities” and how the American democracy has been undermined. In this post, Jared Miller throws light on four critical ways in which ‘dark money’ or untraceable election spending is contributing to backsliding of American democracy.
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How Micro-corruptions Can Make Many a Journey Miserable
What kinds of corruption do refugees and migrants encounter on their journeys? Professor Kim Wilson explores this question in our latest blog post, drawing on interviews conducted with 450 refugees and migrants across several countries.
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Corruption: Is the Law Blindsiding a More Meaningful Discourse?
When did the law and the legal profession start to dominate the international discourse on corruption – focusing on the supply-side and ignoring the reasons why corruption may occur in some contexts? The better route is more dialogue and teamwork across disciplines.
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Everything You Need to Know about Social Norms and Corruption
Did you know social norms can act as a brake to sustainable behavior change? That there’s a body of research on how social norms influence behavior? We didn’t either – until now. Read our new Social Norms Reference Guide to see what we’ve learned.
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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 space need to incorporate a complexity lens if programs are to effectively respond to the realities of the context. Moving from ‘simple’ or ‘complicated’ understandings of the issues, to one that accepts the complexity inherent to the process is best, particularly when these issues are exacerbated by systemic corruption.
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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 monitoring and evaluation), reflection and
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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
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Understanding Corruption in Criminal Justice as a Robust and Resilient System
This paper seeks to contribute to the field of criminal justice reform by sharing a systems-based analytic process to understand corruption in the CJS in fragile states. It explains what was done; why; the benefits and, of course, draw-backs of this process; as well as the lessons learnt.
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