Events and Lectures

Events and Lectures

Events and lectures offer the opportunity to draw from the well of expertise of scholars and practitioners who have given lectures, focusing on various aspects of parliamentary development.

  • Ways Forward in Prosecuting Grand Corruption - part 2/3
    The second panel at the Fifth Forum of Parliamentarians discussed whether the gravest acts of corruption should be considered crimes against international law. Corruption kills more people than war and famine combined, yet the worst perpetrators are too often able to use their illicit wealth and power to evade domestic justice. ...
  • Ways Forward in Prosecuting Grand Corruption - part 1/3
    The second panel at the Fifth Forum of Parliamentarians discussed whether the gravest acts of corruption should be considered crimes against international law. Corruption kills more people than war and famine combined, yet the worst perpetrators are too often able to use their illicit wealth and power to evade domestic justice. ...
  • Improving Democratic Accountability Globally - part 3/3
    The first panel at the Fifth Forum of Parliamentarians discussed congressional oversight and presented key findings from the International Study Group on Oversight and Accountability in Presidential and Semi-presidential Systems which GOPAC held in partnership with the World Bank Institute and the Office for the Promotion of Parliamentary Democracy of the European Parliament. ...