Negotiating Peace and Confronting Corruption

Challenges for Post-Conflict Societies

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Peace agreements are not just about achieving an end to violence-they can also establish significant frameworks for regulating future practice. In this context, one important goal is to address likely drivers of conflict. High on the list of conflict drivers are dishonesty and abuses of power by those who are holding or seeking positions of authority, phenomena that can persist and even become more prevalent following a transition.

The U.S. Institute of Peace is pleased to host an in-depth discussion centered on Bertram I. Spector's latest book, "Negotiating Peace and Confronting Corruption." He argues that the peace negotiation table is the best place to lay the groundwork for good governance. The volume offers lessons for analysts and practitioners on how to structure bargaining and outcomes that provide post-conflict societies with a new beginning conducive to sustainable peace and long-lasting political, economic and social
development

Speakers:

Bertram I. Spector, Author

President, Center for Negotiation Analysis, and Director of Anticorruption Practice, Management Systems International
Graham Teskey, Panelist

Senior Adviser and Head of the Governance and Anti-Corruption Secretariat, Public Sector Governance Unit, the World Bank
Robert M. Perito, Panelist

Director, Security Sector Governance Center, U.S. Institute of Peace
Alix Julia Boucher, Panelist

Research Fellow, Center for Complex Operations, National Defense University

Raymond Gilpin, Moderator

Director, Center for Sustainable Economies, U.S. Institute of Peace
Steve Riskin, Introductory Remarks

Senior Program Officer, Grant Program, U.S. Institute of Peace