حركة “طلعت ريحتكم” في بيروت: شعار ساخر لمحاسبة المسؤولين

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Beirut’s “You Stink” Movement: A Tongue in Cheek Slogan to Hold Officials Accountable

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Repurposing Everyday Discourse on Social Accountability: A Precise, and Strategic Agenda from Dalit activists in India

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We Want to Know: Strengthening Accountability in Sudan

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Bibingka Strategy: A Conceptual Summary

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{!{wpv-post-title}!} Author(s): {!{types field=’blog-author’ separator=’, ‘}!}{!{/types}!} Date: {!{types field=’blog-date’}!}{!{/types}!} Country: {!{types field=’country’}!}{!{/types}!} Language(s): {!{types field=’language’}!}{!{/types}!} The ‘bibingka strategy’ is a popular framework used by civil society groups in the Philippines in pursuing reforms and promoting accountability. It comes from the word bibingka — a type of Filipino rice cake that is cooked by placing live…

How are Transparency and Window-dressing Understood in the Marathi Language?

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{!{wpv-post-title}!} Author(s): {!{types field=’blog-author’ separator=’, ‘}!}{!{/types}!} Date: {!{types field=’blog-date’}!}{!{/types}!} Country: {!{types field=’country’}!}{!{/types}!} Language(s): {!{types field=’language’}!}{!{/types}!} Around the world, diverse cultures have their own ways to communicate ideas about transparency, embedded in everyday, vernacular languages. These reflections address the ways in which transparency is understood in one of India’s widely-spoken languages, Marathi, including reflections on the…

The Promise of Whistleblowing in China

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{!{wpv-post-title}!} Author(s): {!{types field=’blog-author’ separator=’, ‘}!}{!{/types}!} Date: {!{types field=’blog-date’}!}{!{/types}!} Country: {!{types field=’country’}!}{!{/types}!} Language(s): {!{types field=’language’}!}{!{/types}!} A notable example of Chinese neologism, the creation or use of new words, from the coronavirus pandemic is the notion of the whistleblower, or chui shao ren 吹哨人. The emergence of whistleblowing in the Chinese public discourse is inextricably linked to  Dr.…

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The Message(s) in the Music: Lyrics Promote Accountability in Nigeria

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{!{wpv-post-title}!} Author(s): {!{types field=’blog-author’ separator=’, ‘}!}{!{/types}!} Date: {!{types field=’blog-date’}!}{!{/types}!} Country: {!{types field=’country’}!}{!{/types}!} Language(s): {!{types field=’language’}!}{!{/types}!} A lack of accountability undermines a fair and equal society. In Nigeria, in a society that’s been strangled by corruption, people feel distrustful, impatient and unequal. Twenty years after Nigeria’s first democratically-elected President, Nigerians have seen rage and disillusionment from…

The Swahili Word for Transparency, and the Fallacies of Linguistic Determinism

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A Novel Attempt to Break the Language Barrier in Research

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{!{wpv-post-title}!} Author(s): {!{types field=’blog-author’ separator=’, ‘}!}{!{/types}!} Date: {!{types field=’blog-date’}!}{!{/types}!} Country: {!{types field=’country’}!}{!{/types}!} Language(s): {!{types field=’language’}!}{!{/types}!} What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. – William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet Language is known to be the medium of knowledge creation and dissemination of ideas. However, it…