Zero Corruption Talk: Lessons of Chornobyl in Times of Pandemics

Corruption has no boundaries ー just like the radiation. Zero Corruption Conference aimed at shaping an agenda for Zero Corruption future was set up for April 25-27 in Kyiv and Chornobyl, but postponed to the autumn due to the Covid-19 outbreak. Coronavirus has changed our lifestyles, economics, national and global political, but what kind of future will we have after the pandemic?
On this symbolic day ー the anniversary of Chornobyl Nuclear disaster our partners  Anti-Corruption Action Center together with Zero Corruption Conference have organized an event to look at the new challenges, but also at the lessons from the recent past. This time they will gather in the unusual format of the online discussion and will find out:

• How to answer invisible and hybrid threats and create long term solutions?
• How to maintain human and social security without sacrificing freedoms?
• What is the role of a democratic state also in the region where authoritarianism regains its appeal?
• Why fundamental values and social capital important for the world after crisis? Trust, dignity and good governance – how to build it?
• Why Zero Corruption World is important for the humankind to overcome the different types of crisis?

Misuse of power, corruption, poor governance, new forms of censorship, digital control. This could be avoided. But how? We will broadcast this discussion with the best global thinkers and doers at 6 p.m. Kyiv time on April 26.
Speakers:
-Francis Fukuyama, American philosopher, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and Mosbacher Director of FSI's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Dr. Fukuyama has written widely on issues concerning political development and international political economy.
-Serhii Plokhii, American historian and the author of “Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy”. Scientist is specializing in the history of Ukraine, Eastern Europe and Cold War studies. Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, and Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University.
-Miranda Patrucic, Leading investigative reporter and regional editor for the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. Patrucic is a winner of the prestigious “Knight International Journalism Award”, she exposed bribery of the top officials, her reports led to the criminal investigation in the United States and several European countries, as well as the arrest of hundreds of millions of dollars.
-Roman Borisovich, actor, a political campaigner and anti-corruption activist, founded an anti-corruption NGO ClampK.org and organised Kleptocracy Tours to support his coalition’s campaign against money laundering in the UK.
-Rebecca Harms, Member of the European Parliament in the Greens/EFA group since 2004 and has been President of the group 2009-2016. Co-President of the Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, member of the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Association Cooperation Committee and member of the Committee of Industry, Research and Energy.
Moderated by Nataliya Gumenyuk, Ukrainian journalist, author
Supported by the EU Anti-Corruption Initiative (EUACI is financed by the European Union and co-financed and implemented by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark). All Zero Corruption Conference activities performed in collaboration with international organizations (EU, USAID, NATO, Prague Civil Society Centre, NED and others) are financed within international technical financial support.