NATO SFA COE PARTICIPATED IN THE SEMINAR “INTEGRITY – THE HUMAN FACTOR”.
On the 13th October, the NATO SFA COE joined the seminar
“integrity – the human factor” organized during the 2021 Building Integrity
annual discipline conference held in Rome.
During the first part of the seminar, Ms Annette Hurum,
Specialist Director, Centre for Integrity in the Defence Sector (CIDS), Norway
moderated a selection of experts, which debated about the human factor’s
influence on good governance and the challenges posed by lack of integrity,
especially for institutional resilience.
Since the “human factor” relates to people's informal norms
and mentalities, their inner orientations and dispositions, it is very
important in countering corruption and promoting integrity and good governance.
In fact, the experts emphasized that high quality laws and institutions are in
themselves not sufficient to ensure good governance. In many countries there is
a striking discrepancy between the two aspects, often due to unnecessary
bureaucracy, a lack of transparency and corruption.
Subsequently, the Centrale Organisatie Integriteit Defensie
(COID) experts moderated a dedicated workshop on “Packaging communication about
integrity for high-level stakeholders”. During the workshop, the NATO SFA COE
experts had the opportunity to explain that the impact of corruption on local
forces and local institutions can influence the operational effectiveness and
success of a mission. Hence, they pointed out that devising a tailored training
in BI through a Security Force Assistance mission can be particularly effective
in shaping the behaviour of the assisted local forces.