Learning to grapple with corruption as a systemic problem

November 13, 2018 Johannes Tonn – Director, Integrity and Anti-corruption Two weeks ago, the Public Administration Review published a collection of 24 blogposts, curated and selected by Elizabeth Dávid-Barrett and Paul Heywood. The ‘blogpost symposium’ tackles the question of how we (the field of anti-corruption practitioners, researchers and advocates) might make progress in “rethinking” our approach…

Blackwater in Iraq: Poor oversight sets the stage for deadly abuse of power

WASHINGTON: On September 17, 2007, in western Baghdad, private contractors hired to protect a convoy of U.S. State Department officials opened fire on nearby cars. When the smoke cleared, the Iraqi government reported that 17 civilians were dead and demanded that their American employer, Blackwater USA, leave Iraq. Subsequent investigations by Congress describe a pattern…