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	Banks and Dirty Money by Global Witness   Banks and Dirty Money - How the financial system enables state looting at a devastating human cost.   Corruption is a major problem which has a devastating human cost. In poor countries it kills people and traps millions more in poverty. It also undermines the global economy and threatens national security, affecting all countries.   The largely hidden truth is that banks play an integral role in enabling this. Corrupt officials need somewhere to hide stolen money. Yet while laws and regulations apply in most countries which require banks to do a range of checks to detect the proceeds of the corruption, many banks fail to uphold them. As result they are leaving the door wide open for corrupt people to launder their funds.   Our report Banks and Dirty Money reveals the skewed incentives which lie at the root of this problem. It shows that the best solution is for senior executives to be held personally responsible when banks break the rules, and that without this banks will continue to enable corruption and the harm that results.   * Access the report via the link below. Visit the related web page
	Dangerous Speech and Dangerous Ideology by Jonathan Leader Maynard, Susan Benesch Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal   Dangerous Speech and Dangerous Ideology: An Integrated Model for Monitoring and Prevention   There is considerable agreement amongst scholars and international actors that ideologies and speech play a critical role in the path of escalation towards mass atrocity crimes. Speech features prominently in the jurisprudence of the U.N. war crimes tribunal for Rwanda, for example, and in historical accounts of the months and years preceding many other genocides.   Nonetheless, this is one of the most underdeveloped components of genocide and atrocity prevention, in both theory and practice. This paper draws together the authors independent past work on dangerous speech and the ideological dynamics of mass atrocities by offering a new integrated model to help identify the sorts of speech and ideology that raise the risk of atrocities and genocides.   We suggest that this model should inform monitoring activities concerned with the risk of genocides and mass atrocities, and prevention efforts at the strategic and targeted levels.   * Jonathan Leader Maynard, University of Oxford; Susan Benesch, American University; Harvard University, access the full 27 pp. report via the link below.   http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/gsp/about.html Visit the related web page
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