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CORRUPTION and SECURITY “Fighting Dragons Is What Heroes Do“ 2 Welcome Word Credits Empowering Professionals ISSUE X, MARCH 2016 the magazine1 IACAIssue X, March 2016 LUMNUS EUROPEAN UNION SUPPORT INSTRUMENTS IN THE FIELD OF ANTI-CORRUPTION By Gerhard Levy INTEGRITY COMMITTEES By Lucky Kabondo Muntanga Interview with Sarah Chayes CORRUPTION AND SECURITY “Fighting draGONS IS WHAt heroes do“ 2 Welcome Word CREDITS Dear alumni, IACAlumnus - the magazine is the alumni magazine of the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA), addressing alumni around the world who have participated, or are Sarah Chayes, author of the book Thieves of currently taking part in trainings designed State and the subject of our cover story, says and implemented by IACA. anti-corruption professionals are the greatest public servants of all. “They may sometimes IACAlumnus - the magazine welcomes contributions by feel like they’re fighting a dragon, but alumni. As a forum to exchange ideas and latest developments, and feature the career paths of our alumni, we fighting dragons is what heroes do,” is her seek to provide you with a medium to stay connected. For message for those of you reflecting on your contributions please contact [email protected]. difficult and sometimes dangerous work in this field. IACA reserves the right to select and edit any contribution to suit the publication. We will not consider contributions that have already been published, in any form, in print or online. Sarah was the keynote speaker at a side- event during IACA’s fourth Assembly of EDITORIAL Parties in Vienna in December 2015. In a Richard Eames special interview with IACAlumnus for our DESIGN first issue of 2016, she talks about the Adrian Ciupagea reaction to her book, reframing the corruption issue, and finding the vulnerable PHOTOGRAPHS points of corrupt networks. IACA, iStock.com IACA alumni around the world continue to ON THE COVER make progress in fighting the corruption “Fighting dragons is what heroes do“ dragon. In this issue Gerhard Levy shows how EU anti-corruption projects help EU PUBLISHER Member States and non-members alike, International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) Lucky Kabondo Muntanga looks at the role Muenchendorfer Strasse 2 of Integrity Committees in tackling 2361 Laxenburg, Vienna corruption in Zambia, while Claudia AUSTRIA Paluszkiewicz and Sebastian Hamel report +43 (0)2236 710 718 100 www.iaca.int back from the IACA Regional Summer [email protected] Academy - Latin America. As always, we encourage you to write for PRINT Federal Ministry of Defence and Sports/Armed Forces the magazine and to tell us how we can Printing Centre, Vienna, Austria. serve you better. We also look forward to seeing many of you at this summer’s third alumni reunion, preliminary details of which WAIVER are on page 22. IACA promotes academic freedom. The contents of this magazine reflect the opinions of the contributors and do not necessarily represent the views or official position of IACA. Sincerely, Neither IACA nor its staff members or partners shall be liable The Alumni Team for any inaccuracy, incompleteness, unavailability or error of the information provided. ISSUE X, MARCH 2016 3 CONTENTS MARCH 2016 MAPS P4 LATIN AmeRICA P18 IACA ALUMNI Mapping by Country INTERVIEW P6 CORRUPTION AND SECURITY Interview with BUILDING BONDS IN THE FIGHT Sarah Chayes AGAINST CORRUPTION By Claudia Paluszkiewicz P21 PUTTING LEARNING INTO PRACTICE EUROpeAN UNION P10 By Sebastian Hamel A WIN-WIN SITUATION European Union support instruments in the field of anti-corruption 3 rd IACA ALUMNI REUNION P22 By Gerhard Levy ZAMBIA P14 INTEGRITY COMMITTEES Institutional Vehicles in the Fight against UPCOMING P23 Corruption What‘s new at IACA ? By Lucky Kabondo Muntanga Conferences 4 IACA ALUMNI MaPPING BY COUNTRY STATUS AS OF 29 FEBRUARY 2016 The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply any official endorsement or acceptance by the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA). No official endorsement or acceptance is implied with regard to the legal status of any country, territory, city, or any area or its authorities, or with regard to the delimitation of frontiers or boundaries. This map was produced to the best of common knowledge. 01. Afghanistan 21. Cambodia 41. Fiji 61. Jordan 02. Albania 22. Cameroon 42. Finland 62. Kenya 03. Algeria 23. Canada 43. France 63. Kyrgyzstan 04. Angola 24. Cayman Islands 44. Gambia 64. Latvia 05. Argentina 25. Chile 45. Georgia 65. Lebanon 06. Australia 26. China 46. Germany 66. Lesotho 07. Austria 27. Colombia 47. Greece 67. Liberia 08. Azerbaijan 28. Costa Rica 48. Grenada 68. Libya 09. Bahrain 29. Congo 49. Guinea 69. Lithuania 10. Bangladesh 30. Côte d’Ivoire 50. Guatemala 70. Luxembourg 11. Belarus 31. Curaçao 51. Haiti 71. Madagascar 12. Belgium 32. Cyprus 52. Hungary 72. Malawi 13. Bermuda 33. Czech Republic 53. India 73. Malaysia 14. Bhutan 34. Democratic Republic of the Congo 54. Indonesia 74. Malta 15. Bosnia and Herzegovina 35. Denmark 55. Iraq 75. Mexico 16. Brazil 36. Dominican Republic 56. Ireland 76. Mongolia 17. British Virgin Islands 37. El Salvador 57. Islamic Republic of Iran 77. Montserrat 18. Bulgaria 38. Egypt 58. Israel 78. Morocco 19. Burkina Faso 39. Estonia 59. Italy 79. Mozambique 20. Burundi 40. Ethiopia 60. Japan 80. Myanmar ISSUE X, MARCH 2016 5 61. Jordan 81. Namibia 101. Saudi Arabia 120. Timor-Leste 62. Kenya 82. Nepal 102. Senegal 121. Togo 63. Kyrgyzstan 83. Netherlands 103. Serbia 122. Trinidad and Tobago 64. Latvia 84. New Zealand 104. Sierra Leone 123. Tunisia 65. Lebanon 85. Niger 105. Singapore 124. Turkey 66. Lesotho 86. Nigeria 106. Sint Maarten 125. Turks and Caicos Islands 67. Liberia 87. Norway 107. Slovakia 126. Uganda 68. Libya 88. Oman 108. Solomon Islands 127. Ukraine 69. Lithuania 89. Pakistan 109. South Africa 128. United Kingdom 70. Luxembourg 90. Paraguay 110. South Sudan 129. United Republic of Tanzania 71. Madagascar 91. Peru 111. Spain 130. Uruguay 72. Malawi 92. Philippines 112. Sudan 131. USA 73. Malaysia 93. Poland 113. Swaziland 132. Uzbekistan 74. Malta 94. Portugal 114. Sweden 133. Venezuela 75. Mexico 95. Republic of Korea 115. Switzerland 134. Viet Nam 76. Mongolia 96. Republic of Moldova 116. Syrian Arab Republic 135. Yemen 77. Montserrat 97. Romania 117. Tajikistan 136. Zambia 78. Morocco 98. Russian Federation 118. Thailand 137. Zimbabwe 79. Mozambique 99. Rwanda 119. The former Yugoslav 80. Myanmar 100. Saint Kitts Republic of Macedonia 6 PHOTO COURTESY OF KAVEH SARDARI Interview with Sarah Chayes CORRUPTION AND SECURITY “Fighting dragons is what heroes do“ ISSUE X, MARCH 2016 7 In her recent book Thieves of State, Sarah Chayes highlighted the largely overlooked nexus between corruption and acute security crises. She elaborated on this theme as the keynote speaker at a side-event during IACA’s fourth Assembly of Parties (AoP) in Vienna in December 2015. In a separate interview with IACA at the AoP, she talked about the reaction to her book, reframing the corruption issue, and finding the vulnerable points of corrupt networks. ell us first of all about your book and the reaction issue or a brake on development, or as introducing economic to it. Was there anything that really stood out for inefficiencies into the system. The human dimension of it has T you? been ignored. So people miss the way the indignation that corruption generates is responsible for some very extreme A couple of things. I did get the sense that for some people I was reactions on the part of populations, be it revolutions or joining articulating something that they sort of understood but hadn’t extremist movements. quite put together, like joining dots. But secondly, some outreach I got surprised me. For example I was contacted by the U.S. I think corruption has been misframed, and as a result of the Department of Commerce, which had not been one of my misframing it’s always seen as a secondary consideration. So targets. My targets had been the more predictable foreign or whatever your priority is as a private sector actor or a public defence ministries. Then I realized “but of course!” There’s a official - whether it’s delivering a health programme in a hugely important issue for the private sector and in particular developing country, having good diplomatic relations with your trade promotion on the part of western countries that consider counterparts, or security - trumps corruption. But what people themselves to be non-corrupt. They will often be pushing for haven’t understood is that they will never achieve their immediate good deals for their industries in countries that are corrupt, and imperatives if they ignore corruption. good deals are achieved in a sense by colluding with corruption. Or private sector actors are thinking only about how to navigate Does it make sense to fight corruption at the national corrupt environments rather than how their interaction with level, or does the approach need to be more these environments is in fact enabling and facilitating the international, more global? strengthening of kleptocratic networks. So these companies bear a certain degree of responsibility for the negative outcomes There’s a very important international dimension to corruption. that may result, including security outcomes. In some cases kleptocratic networks in a given country spill over borders. And some of the countries that consider themselves to Corruption is a huge problem but we’re not talking be uncorrupt are in fact the ones providing the most services to about it. Why not? corrupt officials overseas, so you could even say that the network extends to western developed nation service providers. By that I Good question! I think partly the way it’s been framed in the past mean banks, real estate companies, lawyers, et cetera. has been an incredible doze. It’s been phrased as an efficiency 8 SARAH CHAYES However, it’s very important to understand the dynamics of How important a role can civil society groups play? corruption on a country or regional basis, because they’re very different.
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