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Corruption is an interdisciplinary and rather new area of study. The courses and curricula on this page showcase the breadth and diversity of pedagogical approaches to corruption. We hope that this compilation will be a useful resource for teachers and students alike to learn about courses on corruption from different disciplines and various parts of the world. If you would like a particular course to be featured on this page then please write to us at: acrn_editor@transparency.org
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Sciences Po Paris (France) : Course (in French) “Corruption(s): Problématisations et réactions sociales”.
This 24h course aims at making students familiar with the ways of analyzing corruption and policies that are designed to address it. In order to show that the problematization of corruption depends on the considered socio-historical context, the course will adopt a comparative approach with cases from different geographical areas and historical periods.
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University of Sussex (UK) – MA in Corruption and Governance
The University of Sussex offers a new one-year MA entirely focused on Corruption and Governance issues. It encompasses theoretical aspects of corruption, allowing student to understand “what corruption is, where it flourishes, why it proliferates, what challenges it poses for policy-makers and the business community and, ultimately, what can be done to counteract it”, as well as practical experience through the opportunity to undertake a three months internship in an organisation of this field.
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Comprehensive Anti-corruption Guidelines for Curriculum Change for Business Schools
On the occasion of the 3rd Global Forum, the PRME Working Group on Anti-Corruption in Curriculum Change launched comprehensive anti-corruption guidelines for curriculum change for business schools and management-related academic institutions around the world. This project is supported by Siemens as part of the Siemens Integrity Initiative.
The guidelines, which are integrated into a single “toolkit”, provide the tools to address the ethical, moral, and practical challenges that students will face in the marketplace. The toolkit provides a menu-style list of various topics, from which instructors can select and organise stand-alone courses or individual course modules.
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Transparency International Summer School on Integrity
Intensive Anti-corruption training for future leaders
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Master in Anti-Corruption Studies (International Anti-Corruption Academy)
The Master in Anti-Corruption Studies (MACS) is the world’s first international and interdisciplinary Master programme in Anti-Corruption Studies. It is a part-time programme designed for working professionals who wish to remain fully employed while pursuing their degree. MACS students will have the opportunity to study in a participatory environment, among a group of motivated and committed individuals.
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The Business Environment of Emerging Markets (HEC Lusanne)
The seminar covers selected issues pertaining to the business environment in emerging markets. The first part of the seminar consists of sessions devoted to an introduction to the process of economic development in order to provide students with background material. It briefly covers (i) growth and convergence, (ii) poverty and inequality within and across countries, (iii) the role of international trade and trade policy, (iv) the politics of economic policies, (v) social capital, corruption, and institutions, and (vi) the effectiveness of development aid.
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Corruption, Development, and Good Governance (George Washington University)
This course examines corruption from real world as well as scholarly perspectives. It uses case studies, debates, guest lectures, and items from the news to examine how corruption can affect effective governance at the national and international levels and its trade spillovers. It also examines how new technologies and strategies (from cell phones to the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative) can reduce corruption and improve governance.
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National Governance, Corruption, Public Economics and Development (Paris School of Economics)
Developed by professor Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky, this course aims to introduce the students to formal and empirical analyses of corruption in central issues of public and development economics. The course is part of the Public Policy and Development Programme at the Paris School of Economics.
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Leading with Ethics and Compliance (UC Berkeley)
This executive education course aimed at compliance professionals and executives takes an integrative approach to ethics and compliance programming. In an immersive, action-oriented curriculum, participants will work with a mix of UC Berkeley faculty and industry experts. Through case studies, classroom lecture, and group breakout sessions, faculty and industry experts will deliver strategic and tactical insights that can be applied immediately.
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Political Corruption (University of Sussex)
Developed by Dr. Dan Hough, this third year undergraduate course runs in the Spring and Summer terms at the University of Sussex in the UK. It is one of a range of teaching and research activities within the newly-founded 'Sussex Centre for the Study of Corruption (SCSC)'. This course has been running since 2005; it is multi-disciplinary in nature and analyses what corruption is, where it flourishes and, most importantly, what can be done about it.
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Resources and Trainings
Anti-corruption training for Prosecutors, Investigators, & Judges
On March 18-22, 2013 the CEELI institute in Prague will hold a comprehensive 5-day interactive training program for Prosecutors, Investigators, & Judgeson how to investigate and prosecute cases of official corruption.
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Anti-Money Laundering Enforcement & Prosecution: South-East Asia
This training programme, organised by the International Governance and Risk Institute and the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office will take place in November-December 2012 in Malaysia, Philippines and Vietnam.
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Anti-Corruption E-Learning for Businesses
The Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Global Advice Network have developed a free of charge anti-corruption eLearning course. This interactive course aims to strengthen companies’ awareness about the risks of corruption and ways to mitigate these risks.
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National Integrity System Summer School
The first edition of the Lisbon NIS Summer School consists of an advanced course aimed at understanding corruption and how to fight it. The course is devoted to elective and public officials, businessmen and private sector employees, non-governmental organizations activists, journalists, university students and other stakeholders interested in eradicating corruption and promoting transparency.
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Civil Society, Judiciary, Local Government, Political Corruption, Procurement, Public Financial Management, Europe and Central Asia, Access to Information, Anti-Corruption Education, Anti-Corruption Institutions, Anti-Corruption Laws, Investigative Journalism, Law Enforcement, Whistleblowing, Empirical Data Analysis, Private Sector (General)
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From Tax Havens to International Tax Coordination: A Focus on Developing Countries
The second edition of the executive training seminars on tax havens focuses on the transition from tax
havens to global fiscal transparency on the key legal, policy and economic issues arising in relations
with developing countries. Top speakers apply a theoretical and practical methodology to evaluate the
impact of standards of global fiscal transparency on such context, in order to determine whether it
should be adapted and/or supplemented by further measures. This seminar is designed both for senior
national and international officials, policymakers from OECD and developing countries, and for
academics (including PhD students) and practitioners of international tax law with an interest in development issues.
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International Anti-Corruption Professional Certificate
Developed by the International Centre for Parliamentary Studies, this course covers a wide range of discussion and practical subject areas, including identifying corruption and its manifestations, how corruption relates to crime and other unethical activities, establishing corporate cultures, especially in challenging environments where the culture of corruption may be endemic or pervasive, fighting corruption and building public confidence, drafting effective bribery legislation, implementing effective enforcement, establishing anti-corruption agencies, and managing a robust and transparent procurement process. Other subjects will include the corruption perceptions index and tackling fraud and financial crime.
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Current Developments in Anti-Money Laundering
Organised by the Academy of European Law (ERA), this training course gives participants an understanding of new international standards on money laundering such as the revised FATF recommmendations, the compliance challenge faced by banking and financial institutions and lawyers, and cooperation with the private sector and recent methods and trends from the perspective of Financial Intelligence Units and Europol.
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The Economics of Corruption - Lecture and Workshop in Good Governance and Reform
Developed by the University of Passau, this training program aimed at practitioners, researchers and students merges the world of theory with the world of practice. An analysis of political, economic and organisational incentives allows participants to obtain a profound understanding of the forces that are at play. Survey techniques and statistical analysis confront theory with data. Interactive tools such as games, poster presentations and case studies involve participants and make them acquainted with today's challenges.
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Leadership and Management for Integrity
Jointly organized by Tiri and the Central European University (CEU), this course takes place between July 2 and 11, 2012 in Budapest, Hungary. The course is specifically designed to support the challenges being encountered by line managers in government, business and civil society concerned with protecting their programmes and maximising their leverage and influence on the governance and regulatory environment.
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Doing Business Without Bribery
Developed by Transparency International UK (TI-UK), this free online training module provides best practice anti-bribery training, and enables companies to benchmark their own training programmes. This is a self-study e-learning course with which participants can learn how to prevent and resist bribery in their business and comply with bribery laws. The course starts with an overview of bribery, followed by a set of in-depth realistic scenarios that require the participant to make decisions in familiar situations, and ends with a summary of bribery laws and offences. The course features clear and practical advice from TI-UK.
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Transparency International Summer School on Integrity
The Transparency International Summer School on Integrity in Vilnius, Lithuania is the first such course in the region aimed at directly addressing the subject of corruption and how to fight it. The aim of the Summer School is to provide student leaders from across the region with an opportunity to learn first-hand from professionals working in the anti-corruption field. The School seeks to provide students with a peer-to-peer learning and integrity-building platform that links international experience with transparency and integrity to the current situation in post-communist countries.
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Elections, Media, Organised Crime, Political Corruption, Procurement, Public Financial Management, Sports, Transition Countries, Europe and Central Asia, Anti-Corruption Education, Anti-Corruption Laws, Conventions, Self-regulation, Private Sector (General)
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Governance and Anti-Corruption Methods
The course presents an in-depth survey of methods and best practices taken by governments, non-governmental organizations (“NGOs”), and other stakeholders to eradicate corruption and promote transparency. The course reviews elements in public sector management commonly known as “good governance,” the causes and effects of corruption, and undertakes a comparative study of domestic and multilateral efforts to eliminate corruption. Additionally, the course examines the history, foundation and main provisions of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption and other international instruments designed to curb corruption and their implications for governance and transparency worldwide. Participants will be expected to fashion an anti-corruption strategy that fits their country’s individual needs and circumstances in recognition of the need to include the full range of stakeholders.
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Corruption: A General Introduction
Developed and run by Transparency International UK, this is an introduction for anyone who is interested in corruption, its impact, and the latest developments in fighting it. The training will be held on 20 February 2012 at the CAN Mezzanine in London.
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The First ECPR Winter School in Methods and Techniques
Organised by the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), this course will take place in Vienna on 11 - 18 February 2012. The Winter School will be an annual event that is complementary to the ECPR's Summer School and there will be a loyalty discount for participants who wish to take part in the 3 step programme at both of these schools. The comprehensive ECPR programme consists of introductory courses and advanced courses, in a one-week format, suitable for advanced students and junior researchers in political science and its adjacent disciplines.
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Introduction to the United Nations System
Representatives of governments and from other actors such as international and non-governmental organisations must be able to understand and often work with UN agencies in order to achieve their objectives and advance their interests. As an increasingly globalised world continues to underline the importance of multilateral dialogue and cooperation in confronting this century’s challenges, the UN will remain a central forum for progressing ideas and a platform for action. This course aims to provide a historical, political, and analytical framework for liaising more effectively with UN representatives and staff.
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Anti-Bribery Workshops for Humanitarian Aid and Development NGOs
Transparency International UK and Mango have announced a new joint training initiative to address the challenge of bribery in the NGO overseas aid sector. The two half-day workshops will take place at TI-UK’s training centre in Southwark, London, on Monday 5 December.
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UNDP online course - Essentials on Anti-Corruption and Human Development
The UNDP Virtual School is launching a new 10-week online course, “Essentials on Anti-Corruption and Human Development” in September 2011. This course is the first UNDP training initiative that provides analytical and practical tools on anti-corruption from a human development perspective and promotes a comparative analysis of corruption practices around the globe.
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Economics of Multilevel Governance in an International Context - 16-19 November, 2011
International and global governance rely today on a complex web of relationships among a wide diversity of regulators and stakeholders: national governments, firms, IGOs, NGOs, activists groups, and all kind of non-State actors. By focusing on contrasted domains where this diversity is at play — namely energy, the Internet and information society, finance, and scientific resources — the Executive Seminar will explore the economics and politics of heterarchic systems of governance.
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Executive Course in Communication and Governance Reform
This course is designed for communication professionals in Africa and the Middle East who want to build critical competencies in providing implementation support to change agents and reform leaders throughout government and civil society. It is being piloted by the World Bank along with the Annenberg School for Communication.
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