NEW PUBLICATION: People power impacting corruption and impunity
[Facilitator's note: With deep appreciation to Shaazka Beyerle, Senior Advisor, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, for this contribution.]
Dear colleagues,
I'm a member of the AP-INTACT network (ap-intact@groups.undp.org) and have just published a book entitled, "Curtailing Corruption: People Power for Accountability and Justice." Below is info about the book and a recent review in "The World Today," a Chatham House publication.
https://www.rienner.com/title/Curtailing_Corruption_People_Power_for_Accountability_and_Justice
http://www.chathamhouse.org/publication/review-citizens-fighting-corruption
It's based on original, qualitative research I conducted to identify, document, and analyze bottom-up social movements, campaigns and local civic initiatives impacting corruption, as well as to derive general lessons learned for civil society, and policy implications and recommendations for international actors.
Twelve cases from the following countries (including from the AP region) are included: Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, South Korea, Turkey, and Uganda. Some are ongoing social movements, others finite campaigns at the national or sub-national level. Most are not widely known outside their own contexts.
Overall, I found that during the past 16 years around the world, literally millions of citizens moved from being victims of corruption to protagonists of notable civic initiatives. The research focused on citizen agency: what civic actors and everyday people - organized together around shared grievances, setting their own agenda - are doing to curb corruption as they themselves define and experience it.
Civic initiatives targeting corruption and impunity were often multidimensional in focus, reflecting the reality that corruption is linked to other injustices, such as poverty, human rights abuses, violence, authoritarianism, and environmental destruction. Taken together, people power was found to: engender political will where it was absent; apply pressure on disobliging governments, institutions and non-state actors to take action; and support authorities, civil servants, politicians and non-state actors trying to fight the malfeasant system but face intimidation and obstacles.
The book is now available through the following online sources.
For civil society actors who are in places where there is no international delivery or who have limited financial means to purchase the book, please contact me: sbeyerle@nonviolent-conflict.org.
Paperback, hardcover, e-book (IPads, tablets, computers)
https://www.rienner.com/title/Curtailing_Corruption_People_Power_for_Accountability_and_Justice
International paperback orders (free worldwide delivery)
http://www.eurospanbookstore.com/curtailing-corruption.html
http://www.bookdepository.com/Curtailing-Corruption-Shaazka-Beyerle/9781626370562
Dear colleagues,
I'm a member of the AP-INTACT network (ap-intact@groups.undp.org) and have just published a book entitled, "Curtailing Corruption: People Power for Accountability and Justice." Below is info about the book and a recent review in "The World Today," a Chatham House publication.
https://www.rienner.com/title/Curtailing_Corruption_People_Power_for_Accountability_and_Justice
http://www.chathamhouse.org/publication/review-citizens-fighting-corruption
It's based on original, qualitative research I conducted to identify, document, and analyze bottom-up social movements, campaigns and local civic initiatives impacting corruption, as well as to derive general lessons learned for civil society, and policy implications and recommendations for international actors.
Twelve cases from the following countries (including from the AP region) are included: Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, South Korea, Turkey, and Uganda. Some are ongoing social movements, others finite campaigns at the national or sub-national level. Most are not widely known outside their own contexts.
Overall, I found that during the past 16 years around the world, literally millions of citizens moved from being victims of corruption to protagonists of notable civic initiatives. The research focused on citizen agency: what civic actors and everyday people - organized together around shared grievances, setting their own agenda - are doing to curb corruption as they themselves define and experience it.
Civic initiatives targeting corruption and impunity were often multidimensional in focus, reflecting the reality that corruption is linked to other injustices, such as poverty, human rights abuses, violence, authoritarianism, and environmental destruction. Taken together, people power was found to: engender political will where it was absent; apply pressure on disobliging governments, institutions and non-state actors to take action; and support authorities, civil servants, politicians and non-state actors trying to fight the malfeasant system but face intimidation and obstacles.
The book is now available through the following online sources.
For civil society actors who are in places where there is no international delivery or who have limited financial means to purchase the book, please contact me: sbeyerle@nonviolent-conflict.org.
Paperback, hardcover, e-book (IPads, tablets, computers)
https://www.rienner.com/title/Curtailing_Corruption_People_Power_for_Accountability_and_Justice
International paperback orders (free worldwide delivery)
http://www.eurospanbookstore.com/curtailing-corruption.html
http://www.bookdepository.com/Curtailing-Corruption-Shaazka-Beyerle/9781626370562