This quick guide is the second in a two-part series on the tangible yet under-addressed impacts of corruption on security and the complex power dynamics at play.
This second guide goes deeper into a specific security threat: when states use corruption to gain power and influence over other states and even as a geopolitical tool.
How does corruption threaten national and international security, both directly and indirectly? Can viewing it through the lens of power offer deeper insights? And what might we achieve by framing corruption as a security concern?
This quick guide gives a short introduction to this complex issue as part of a two-part series on corruption, security and strategic corruption.
Sexual corruption is a serious and under-recognised form of both corruption and sexual abuse. A particularly harmful form of corruption, it is difficult to measure and prosecute, and can have devastating physical and psychological impacts on survivors/victims.
As it disproportionately affects women and marginalised groups, sexual corruption has an important impact on the advancement of gender equality and minority rights.
This open-access, peer-reviewed journal article examines the results of a pilot behavioural intervention in Tanzania. The project tested a behavioural anti-corruption intervention to reduce bribery in a hospital. It targeted deeply ingrained social norms while also leveraging the social networks and influence of key staff members.
There’s a lot of attention to the laundering of “dirty money” – but very little about how clean money can be turned into bribes, kickbacks or payments to terrorists.
The Basel Institute has secured a new grant to partner with leading pharmaceutical company Novartis to improve the effectiveness of compliance programmes in deterring corrupt behaviour.
Politics matters for the success of anti-corruption and asset recovery efforts. That is the starting point of our latest Working Paper, based on a two-year research project that combined the expertise and hands-on experience of our Prevention, Research and Innovation (PRI) team and our International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR).
The report discusses the political and governance factors that affect the performance of the justice system in relation to anti-corruption and asset recovery.
Politics matters for the success of anti-corruption and asset recovery efforts. This Working Paper:
A new paper published in the Annual Review of Political Science explores how we can improve anti-corruption efforts using a “new arrow in the quiver”: the social norms approach. Claudia Baez Camargo, Head of Prevention, Research and Innovation and a co-author of the paper, explains why the social norms approach is crucial for anti-corruption efforts, and shares some of the paper’s main messages for practitioners and researchers.
Everyone knows about money laundering – but what about money dirtying, i.e. secretly turning legally acquired money into illegal payments? A new peer-reviewed journal article looks at this phenomenon.