TY  - JOUR
T1  - Anti-Corruption Strategies in Iraq after 2003: The Challenges Ahead
AU - Abbas, Saad Sahi AU - Ismail, Norafidah Binti 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 12
IS  - 11
SP  - 2191
EP  - 2199
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2017.2191.2199
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2017.2191.2199
KW  - Iraq
KW  -corruption
KW  -anti-corruption mechanisms
KW  -challenges of the anti-corruption strategies
KW  -society
KW  -corruption
AB  - Corruption has played a significant role in the devastation of Iraqi society and its citizen’s lives. It
renders true democracy impossible. It fosters government impunity, uses threats and violence, violations of
human rights. The widespread of corruption is serious ailment and threat to the government of Iraq. This
research is to ascertain the challenges of anti-corruption institutions in combating corruption. The qualitative
technique via interview and observation was duly adopted as the methods for data collection whereby manual
analysis was employed to present the result obtained from the field. The data that was collected from interviews
with two groups (Iraqi members of parliament and academicians) for this purpose focusing on the challenges
of anti-corruption strategies in Iraq after 2003. The study revealed that lack of autonomy to the institutions,
incompetent staff and political interference were among the challenges that affects the anti-graft institutions
in Iraq. The study recommends that autonomy of the institutions, strengthening the institutions and political
will of government in combating graft and democratic principle should put in place in order to address the
menace of corruption Iraq.
ER  -