Shrivenham 2007 Print
The July 2007 advanced research workshop on ‘Building Integrity and Reducing Corruption in the Defence Sector’ was organised jointly by NATO, the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom and Transparency International UK.
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It followed 12 – 18 months of constructive engagement between NATO International Staff and Transparency International, which focused on ways that an integrity and anti-corruption agenda could support Partner and Ally nations in defence institution building.  The Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) supported the proposal for an action plan of engagement, including this workshop and subsequent follow up.

The purpose of the workshop was fourfold:
  1. To do the initial development of a training module for senior defence officers and officials that could be given in Partnership for Peace training centres, NATO training centres and national defence colleges
  2. To examine the merits of a NATO policy on building integrity and reducing corruption risk, what such a policy would contain, and how it would be useful in practice
  3. To bring together personnel with expertise in defence ministries and related organisations.  Through this, to start to build an international community with expertise in methods of improving transparency, building integrity and reducing corruption in defence establishments
  4. To consider how best to advance this initiative on Building Integrity and Reducing Corruption across NATO Ally and Partner countries
The meeting comprised 50 participants from 16 Allied, Partner and Mediterranean Dialogue nations: Albania, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Georgia, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Morocco, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Tunisia, Ukraine, the UK and the USA.  It was oversubscribed and several nations had to be turned away.  The workshop was highly participatory.  Feedback after the workshop showed a high level of satisfaction with the event and a strong desire to see this initiative move forward.  It was co-directed by Mark Pyman of Transparency International UK, Maitre Hassan Rahmouni of Morocco and Ignas Stankovicius of Lithuania.
The following documents relate to the workshop: