Anti-Corruption International Congress — Shaping an Anti-corruption Environment: Education and Partnerships to Create a Positive Impact.

Session 8 – Building Strategies.

Speakers:
Dr. Karina Carvalho
Executive Director of Transparency International Portugal

Dr. Ilya Lozovsky
Senior Editor of Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

Dr. Will Fitzgibbon
International Consortium of Investigate Journalists

Moderator:
Dr. Ana Gomes
Former Member of the European Parliament and Former Member of the Portuguese Republic Assembly

To achieve a sustainable development is imperative to stimulate a global critical thinking, in a multilateral and multidisciplinary approach. Education, and in particular, legal education, can be a levelling and enhancing tool.

The academic setting is ideal to raise a greater understanding of the issues that currently undermine human rights, the rule of law, justice, and democracy. Corruption is one of these issues. The need for an open and plural education approach that fosters a sense of global citizenship around universal values is imperative not only to address corruption but, also, to understand the phenomenon, its consequences, and its causes.

Through examples and involving the participants, it is intended to develop an action to share experiences and knowledge, on a national level but also – since the phenomenon is global – on an international scale, in order to develop informed solutions to this complex issue, through dialogue with different actors, private and public.

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