Building a culture of lawfulness starts with strengthening our ethical values and the ability to act upon them. To that end, the Education for Justice (E4J) initiative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime developed a series of Integrity and Ethics Modules, which lecturers can use as a basis for teaching in universities and academic institutions across the world. The Modules seek to enhance students' ethical awareness and commitment to acting with integrity and equip them with the necessary skills to apply and spread these norms in life, work and society. To increase their effectiveness, the Modules connect theory to practice, encourage critical thinking, and use innovative interactive teaching approaches such as experiential learning and group-based work. The Modules are multi-disciplinary and draw from diverse epistemologies, including theories from the global South. Having introduced elements of the African moral theory of Ubuntu into the Modules, Dr. Leyla Tavernaro-Haidarian is part of a global cohort of academics piloting their rollout worldwide. Together with participants of the Afrika-Kolloquium/Global Africa Diaspora Forum, she would like to explore how students and lecturers might best see these Modules integrated into their existing curricula. By striving to emphasize common universal values, the Modules leave room for diverse perspectives and lecturers can easily adapt them to different local and cultural contexts, introducing ethics components to both ethics and non-ethics courses. Importantly, academics gaining experience with these Modules continue to feed back into the global conversation that is forming around E4J and help to continuously refine them.

Dr. Leyla Tavernaro-Haidarian, is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Johannesburg and a consultant for the United Nations (UNODC, UNSSC). Her academic focus lies on the normative moral theory of Ubuntu and its implications for communication, public discourse, education, development and governance. Leyla regularly coaches, presents and keynotes at international fora such as TEDx, The US State Department, The United Nations, The Unique Speaker Bureau and Ethical Business Building the Future. She is a member of the South African Communication Association and a 2018 South African Women in Science Awards nominee. She is also a member of the South African Young Academy of Science and the Golden Key International Honor Society.