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The Threat of Systematic Corruption to Peace and Security

Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 / Time: 5:00am - 7:00am 

Center: Applied Conflict Transformation Center

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The U.S. Institute of Peace’s Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding invited policymakers, practitioners, and analysts to a discussion of the new report Corruption: An Unrecognized Threat to International Security, by award-winning analyst Sarah Chayes.

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From left to right, Ambassador Johnnie Carson, Fiona Mangan, Sarah Chayes, George A. Lopez

In her report, Ms. Chayes provides new perspectives and findings on the shocking realities whereby security, and certainly the prospects for peace, are continually diminished by chronic, deeply-embedded government corruption.

Speakers

  • Sarah Chayes, Presenter
    Senior Associate, Democracy and Rule of Law Program & South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  • Ambassador Johnnie Carson, Discussant
    Senior Advisor to the President, U.S. Institute Peace
  • Fiona Mangan, Discussant
    Senior Program Officer, Rule of Law Program, U.S. Institute Peace
  • George A. Lopez, Moderator
    Vice President of the Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding, U.S. Institute Peace

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