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“We Are Global” is a new series on the Commons featuring interviews with Global Integrity’s far flung staff of journalists, researchers and advocates. This series will highlight our colleagues’ work “in the trenches” as they pursue anti-corruption reforms in their communities. What’s the power of one voice? And what’s the power of one voice with…

Corruption’s role in armed conflict and violence has become a key concern for peacebuilding professionals. And yet, the anti-corruption and peacebuilding fields have rarely converged in a systematic way. One effort towards bringing the two communities into an engaged dialogue is the recent publication of a special theme issue of the journal New Routes on…

The role of business is changing. That was the take home message from last week’s Emerging Market Development conference, sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Recent emphasis on “corporate social responsibility” has pushed businesses to wade into pools that would have been completely foreign to managers a decade ago. The conference sought to guide…

Reuters is reporting that Kuwaiti journalist Zayed al-Zaid was physically attacked and wounded after leaving a transparency summit earlier this week. (Global Integrity later was told Zaid had actually been at headquarters of a political movement prior to the attack.) Zaid is the editor of an online news source known for its corruption-focused investigative reporting…

As promised in a previous post, you can now access Global Integrity’s 2008 federal tax return (“Form 990”) on our Funders & Financials page. — Nathaniel Heller

Lea la versión en español abajo. An all-day seminar entitled “The promotion of a reform agenda for the institutional quality at the level sub-national: the experience of Argentina, Peru and Ecuador,” held Wednesday September 30th, marked the official release of the most recent project of Global Integrity’s Local Integrity Initiative, in which in-country partner groups…