16 – Fredliga och inkluderande samhällen

  • Multi-Level Perspectives on Anti-Corruption: A Systematic Literature Review

    Multi-Level Perspectives on Anti-Corruption: A Systematic Literature Review

    This systematic literature review investigates the extent to which recent anti-corruption literature goes beyond the established paradigms (i.e., principal-agent perspective, macro-level, structural, and legal centralistic approaches) to focus on society’s informal norms, everyday micro-level power relations and non-monetary currencies (e.g. respect, prestige, social status and trust). By reconceptualising the various meanings and morality of informal,non-legal…

  • Overcoming Barriers to Participate in Local Democracy for People with Disabilities: The Case of Zimbabwe

    Overcoming Barriers to Participate in Local Democracy for People with Disabilities: The Case of Zimbabwe

    This policy brief discusses barriers to the inclusion and participation of people with disabilities in local democracy in rural Zimbabwe and provides recommendations for enhanced participation. The analysis is part of a broader mixed research study on the inclusion and participation of vulnerable groups in Zimbabwe’s local democracy. Results of the study show how people…

  • Backyard rentals, municipal connections, and the right to housing, South Africa

    This teaching case introduces a scenario involving backyard dwellers in a city in South Africa and raises the question of whether the municipality should provide connection points for municipal services to backyard dwellers. It presents a dilemma between the right to housing on the one hand, and municipal concerns around planning, legal matters, safety, funding…

  • Youth participation in local government in South Africa

    This scenario relates to the right of youth to participate in local government and introduces a case of land and water pollution in the Municipality of Lower Valley, which intersects with a variety of rights – (1) right to participate, (2) right of access to food and (3) right to a safe environment. The Municipality…

  • WhatsAppers for Social Good: Local Community Response to Covid-19 in Brazil

    WhatsAppers for Social Good: Local Community Response to Covid-19 in Brazil

    The so-called “WhatsAppers” constitute a local community of activists and concerned citizens who use WhatsApp to promote networks of solidarity in Brazil. Since the app’s launch,WhatsApp is increasingly appropriated for social good by activists, not only for “hanging-out” with like-minded people, but it has also become a key platform for twenty-first century politics, particularly in…

  • Human rights in Gaborone and Johannesburg: finding meaning in local context

    Cities are critical human rights actors. Human rights are interpreted through local culture, history, politics and context. Cities are increasingly at the heart of this process of interpreting and “localizing” (Camilo Sanchez 2020) for a growing share of the world’s population. How can we support the development of civic human rights initiatives in Southern Africa…

  • Building Political Will to Combat Corruption

    Pervasive corruption presents a challenge to scholars, practitioners, and activists. This policy brief reviews academic and policy perspectives on political will in anti-corruption efforts. The importance of political will for the success of anti-corruption reforms is widely cited, but knowledge gaps remain regarding why political will arises (or fails to do so). This policy brief…

  • Using Social Norms to Fight Corruption in Local Governments

    This policy brief looks into the role of social norms to fight corruption in the school system in the Cau Giay district in Hanoi. An ongoing research project has conducted multiple ethnographic field studies in schools and included parents, teachers, and other school personnel in the research data. Their experiences and reflections are the core…

  • Öckerö and Homa Bay, Kenya

    Öckerö and Homa Bay, Kenya

    Project: Children’s right to participation Det sökta projektet har som mål dels att gemensamt arbeta för att ge förutsättningar, ett ökat engagemang i politiska frågor och viljan att delta i beslutsprocesser bland barn och unga i våra olika kommuner. Dels att öka och fördjupa kunskapen om Barnkonventionen bland Barn- och utbildningsnämnden och Barn- och utbildningsförvaltningens…

  • Upplands-Bro and Muranga, Kenya

    Upplands-Bro and Muranga, Kenya

    Project: Youth Participation Upplands-Bro and Muranga County are in many ways two very different municipalities in different parts of the world. At the same time, there are in many ways a similar problem of the often low participation of young people in the local community in general and in cultural and leisure activities in particular.…

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