During Partners’ participation in a plenary session on “Future of Anti-corruption: predicting the unpredictable", throughout the course of the second Arab Forum for enhancing Transparency and Good Governance, in Baghdad, Iraq. Merna Shalash, the President of Partners for Transparency, addressed the role of civil society organizations in the combating corruption in the future. The Panelists also included representatives of various national and international bodies: Dr. Daniel Eriksson, CEO of Transparency International, Dr. Renad Mansour, senior research fellow at Chatham House, Judge Claud Karam, head of the National Anti-Corruption Commission in Lebanon, Dr. Youness Abouyoub, moderator and chief of Governance and State-Building section of UN-ESCWA.