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QoG lunch seminar with Jóhannes Stefánsson

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Jóhannes Stefánsson is whistleblower and winner of the WIN WIN Gothenburg Sustainability Award 2021.

Seminar
Date
20 Oct 2021
Time
11:00 - 12:00
Location
Dragonen
Participants
Jóhannes Stefánsson, whistleblower and winner of the WIN WIN Gothenburg Sustainability Award 2021
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The QoG institute regularly organizes seminars related to research on Quality of Government, broadly defined as trustworthy, reliable, impartial, uncorrupted and competent government institutions.

All seminars are held in English unless stated otherwise.
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The Quality of Government institute

On October 20th the Gothenburg Centre for Sustainable Development arranges a roundtable discussion (9.00-10.45) and a seminar, in collaboration with the QoG Institute (11.00-12.00) with the WIN WIN Gothenburg Sustainability Award winner Jóhannes Stefánsson.  Jóhannes Stefánsson is the Icelandic whistleblower who, with his life at stake, led the revelation of a widespread corruption scandal connected to fishing quotas in Namibia. The first part will take place on zoom, but the QoG seminar at 11.00 will be open to participants at Dragonen. The zoom link will be sent out closer to the seminar.

If you would like to take part in the first part (roundtable), please sign up here: https://www.2030vast.se/arlig-konferens-med-agenda-2030-i-vast-2021/.

If you only want to take part in the QoG seminar, please sign up here: https://ui.ungpd.com/Events/65a39463-5674-4e96-8d66-8a5b5d64e659

 

Program:

9.00-9.20 Keynote speech by Jóhannes Stefánsson, titled "How do we create a culture that stands up against corruption and protect the whistleblower?".

9.20-10.00 Short initial presentations from the panel:

  • Jóhannes Stefánsson, Whistleblower and winner of WIN WIN Sustainability Award 2021
  • Aksel Sundström, Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg
  • In- Anna Knutsdotter, Internal controller and whistleblower coordinator, City of Gothenburg
  • Peter Johansson, Senior Lecturer at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg
  • Anna Persson, Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg
  • Moderator: Caroline Petersson, Project manager Gothenburg Centre for Sustainable Development

10.00-10.30 Roundtable discussion in smaller groups (5-6 participants)

How do we create a culture that stands up against corruption and protect the whistleblower?

In this roundtable discussion we invite you to contribute with your experiences about the importance of whistleblowers and to discuss what individuals, organizations and society can do to support those that stand up again corruption.

  1. From what I’ve heard today, what will I bring back to my organization/workplace?
  2. What can we do together to resist corruption and protect whistle blowers?

10.30-10.40 Short summary from each group with the focus on the second question above. 

10.40-10.45 Final words from Jóhannes.

10.45-11.00 Break

11.00-12.00 Seminar with Jóhannes Stefánsson (live in Dragonen and on zoom).

Jóhannes will talk for 20-30 minutes on the topic “What can research learn from a whistleblower?” The talk will be followed by a Q&A session.

 

Press release in Swedish: https://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/winwin-gothenburg-sustainability-award/pressreleases/visselblaasaren-johannes-stefansson-visar-att-enskilda-personer-kan-agera-mot-korruption-vinner-win-win-gothenburg-sustainability-award-2021-3091819

 

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