Final Programme - 13th International Anti-Corruption Conference

MC 2 / L. -117:00 – 19:00 Special Session 5: Faith and Human SecurityCoordinator:Katherine Marshall, Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor, Georgetown UniversityFaith leaders are critical social and often political actors and their engagement in governance andanticorruption efforts can help ensure holistic approaches to creating shared security. Peace andsecurity is not just about diplomacy and state solutions; it is also about social goals and norms aswell as intergroup relations; faith leaders and communities have roles on all dimensions but particularlythe latter as they so often play key roles in people’s lives. Many faith leaders bring deep historicalappreciation of and wisdom about the evolution of social norms and values and tensions that canexist among their different dimensions. With this understanding, this panel will bring together faith andsecular governance leaders to name and outline the elephants in the room—the most difficult issues atstake in fighting corruption—and then suggest advice about how to move forward in including and energizingfaith leaders and institutions in overcoming these challenges. Experts will explore key questions andcreative solutions. How best to energize and include faith leaders and institutions in anticorruption efforts?How to think about how to deal with nepotism and conflicts of interest. How to balance positive educationin values with deterrent measures? How to approach innovative reforms in permissive institutional culturesthat look the other way on lapses in integrity? How to respectfully advocate for religious communities tofight corruption within and beyond their own communities?Moderator: Katherine Marshall, Executive Director, World Faiths Development Dialogue Senior Advisor, Berkeley Center forReligion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University, and Senior Advisor, World BankRapporteur: Rebecca Dobson, Contributing Editor, The Global Corruption Report, Transparency InternationalPanellists: Gesine Schwan, President, Viadrina European UniversityKatherine Marshall, Executive Director, World Faiths Development Dialogue Senior Advisor, Berkeley Center for Religion, Peace, andWorld Affairs, Georgetown University, and Senior Advisor, World BankGeo Sung Kim, Chairperson, Transparency International - Korea and Board Member, Transparency InternationalCharles Sampford, Director, Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law (IEGL), and President, International Institute for Public Ethics19:00 – 20:00 Transportation to the Official Conference Dinner Venue20:00 – 24:00 Official Conference Dinner76