{"id":124,"date":"2014-08-06T09:53:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T08:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/idd\/?p=124"},"modified":"2018-06-05T17:57:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T16:57:32","slug":"bags-of-gold-as-an-anti-corruption-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/idd\/2014\/08\/bags-of-gold-as-an-anti-corruption-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bags of gold as an anti-corruption strategy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"reblogged-content\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"meta clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry clear\">\n<div class=\"wpcom-reblog-snapshot\">\n<div class=\"reblog-post\">\n<p class=\"reblog-from\"><a href=\"http:\/\/heathermarquette.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/04\/bags-of-gold-as-an-anti-corruption-strategy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/Images\/college-social-sciences-only\/government-society\/idd\/profiles\/staff\/230x230\/marquette-heather.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for Heather Marquette\" width=\"233\" height=\"233\" \/>Dr Heather Marquette<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My colleague, <a title=\"Laurence Cooley's staff page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/staff\/profiles\/government-society\/cooley-laurence.aspx\">Laurence Cooley<\/a>, and I have just finished a book chapter on \u2018Corruption and Post-Conflict Reconstruction\u2019 for a forthcoming collection, and we wanted to compare three cases to see if any specific lessons can be drawn about what worked, what didn\u2019t and why. We chose Bad, Worse and Rock Bottom as our cases \u2013 Liberia, Iraq and Afghanistan, partly because we thought they\u2019d be of interest to the most readers, but also because if lessons on corruption can\u2019t be drawn from these, well, heaven help us\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The literature on the relationship between corruption and conflict is pretty contradictory, as anyone who\u2019s waded through it can tell you. While corruption may very often be a driver of conflict, there is evidence to suggest that, in certain circumstances, it may also have conflict-mitigating properties. Post-conflict reconstruction efforts can inadvertently present new opportunities for corrupt practices, leaving international attempts to fight\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"reblog-source\"><a href=\"http:\/\/heathermarquette.wordpress.com\/2014\/03\/04\/bags-of-gold-as-an-anti-corruption-strategy\">View original post<\/a> <span class=\"more-words\">856 more words<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Heather Marquette My colleague, Laurence Cooley, and I have just finished a book chapter on \u2018Corruption and Post-Conflict Reconstruction\u2019 for a forthcoming collection, and we wanted to compare three cases to see if any specific lessons can be drawn about what worked, what didn\u2019t and why. We chose Bad, Worse and Rock Bottom as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/idd\/2014\/08\/bags-of-gold-as-an-anti-corruption-strategy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bags of gold as an anti-corruption strategy?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/idd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/idd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/idd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/idd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/idd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/idd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/idd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/idd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/idd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/idd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/idd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}