The first Public Lecture of the ninth course of the Managing Global Governance programme has been delivered by Garth le Pere, University of Pretoria and Senior Partner DAJO Associates, South Africa. He talked about “Crime and Africa’s Uncivil Society”. le Pere argues that new security threats such as piracy, money laundering, the plunder of natural resources, and trafficking in drugs, arms, and humans are closely interwoven with the weakness and vulnerability of the State. He pointed to the fact that the emergence of an “uncivil” society of transnational criminal networks could potentially undermine the promise of a resurgent Africa.

• Garth Le Pere, University of Pretoria and Senior Partner DAJO Associates, South Africa
• Discussant: Julia Leininger, Department “Governance, Statehood, Security", German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
• Moderator: Andrea von Rauch, Head of Division Regional and Global Governance, Security Policy and Rule of Law, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

For a related article by Le Pere in the "The Thinker" magazine (May 2011 Issue), please visit: http://www.thethinker.co.za/archive_articles.html

The MGG Public Lecture Series features eminent scholars and high-ranking officials from partner institutions of the MGG programme. In contrast to the closed sessions of the Global Governance School, the MGG Public Lectures are open for the public offering the opportunity for interesting debates among experts from Germany/Europe and rising powers.

The Global Governance School is the scholarly part of the Training and Dialogue Programme "Managing Global Governance" (MGG), an initiative of the German Ministry for Economic Co-operation and Development (BMZ), implemented jointly by the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). The programme is aimed at highly qualified young professionals from currently eight anchor countries (Egypt, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan and South Africa), who work in government bodies, policy-oriented think tanks and research institutions.


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