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Conference Report

Booklet of Abstracts (as at 6 April 2006)

Final Program (as at 3 April 2006) (pdf document)

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Opening keynote by: Mary Robinson
Executive Director, Ethical Globalization Initiative; Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and President of Ireland

Despite advances made over the past decade, the challenge to develop more effective ways and means to promote integrity and combat corruption remains with us. Codes of Ethics have evolved in many contexts but their application is often problematic especially in public life. Human tragedies, occasioned either through war, terror or natural disasters, continue to plague the world and raise anew questions about the ethical behaviour of public officials. Together with the World Bank, IIPE, founded to advance the thinking, discussion and implementation of global ethics, is responding to the growing crisis of integrity in world affairs by hosting the first World Ethics Forum in Oxford. It is designed for officials and advisors to national, sub-national and international governments, business professionals, scholars, ethics practitioners, civil society activists, academics, and public officials to reflect, facilitate and support critical thinking about the praxis of public ethics, to expose applied lessons about democratic governance processes and to help rebuild a sustainable future for an ethics culture. This conference follows on from earlier IIPE conferences and the Ethics in the Public Service Network conferences which preceded IIPE. It also follows on from the first Global Integrity Alliance meeting in March 2004 held in Istanbul. The Global Integrity Alliance is planned to bring together a range of individuals and organisations committed to raising standards of integrity and reducing corruption.

Special Symposium for the Global Integrity Alliance
The main conference will run for two days - from 3pm on 9th to 3pm on 11th. It will be followed by a special symposium that will build on the ideas and insights generated by the main conference to consider how members of the Global Integrity Alliance can collaborate to build integrity and limit corruption.

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