Mapping and Fighting Corruption in War-Torn States
March 01, 2007
A new Future of Peace Operations Program (FOPO) study, Mapping and Fighting Corruption in War-Torn States, examines corruption in war-torn states and summarizes best practices for fighting it. The study reviews and consolidates, from the English-language literature on the subject, what the world's specialists in corruption have to say about how to recognize and fight it in post-conflict circumstances, especially where international peace operations are deployed. Its structured summary or "meta-analysis " of the literature is built around two charts: one that depicts patterns of corruption in post-conflict states and a second that maps and connects the most frequently mentioned steps for dealing with it. The latter closely resembles a comprehensive state-building strategy.
The study contains a preliminary assessment of anticorruption efforts in Liberia and concludes with recommendations on the sequencing of such measures in war-torn states. The study was presented in draft form at two international conferences, at Nuffield College in Oxford, England, and at the Naval Post-Graduate School's Center for Stabilization and Reconstruction in Monterey, California.
This study is one of five FOPO studies on essential aspects of improving rule of law in post-conflict states. Other studies focus on the creation of a standing UN police capacity, improving border control and border security, increasing accountability for non-military personnel in peace operations, and using UN Panels of Experts more effectively to combat spoilers and monitor targeted sanctions.
This relates to…
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Post-Conflict Borders and UN Peace Operations
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Improving Criminal Accountability in United Nations Peace Operations
In 2004, major problems of sexual exploitation and abuse by UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other operations became a public scandal for the United Nations.
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Targeting Spoilers: The Role of United Nations Panels of Experts
United Nations Panels of Experts are small, civilian, fact-finding teams appointed by the United Nations (UN) Security Council to monitor the effectiveness of the targeted sanctions it
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