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Editorial

Responsible Academic Leadership by Divya Singh

Globethics.net Network

Globethics.net China
First SDGs and Green Entrepreneurship Training, Beijing
 
Globethics.net India
Report on International Women's Day workshop in India 
 
Globethics.net East-Africa
Ethics for Successful Learning and Social Harmony in Burundi
 
Globethics.net Russia
Globethics.net Russia Competition Strategic Matrix-2017
Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Justice webinars in Russia
 
Globethics.net Philippines
First international Globethics.net Philippines Symposium, 19-21 May 2017
 
Other events:
Globethics.net at International Integrated Reporting Council, New York, USA
Marking World Health Day 2017
Globethics.net celebrates World Book and Copyright Day 2017
Ethical poetry month 2017 has finished. Thank you for you input!
 

Globethics.net Library

Journals about Ethics in Higher Education and bibliography
Methodist and Wesleyan studies collection
GlobTheoLib Annual Report 2016 is available now

Globethics.net Research / Projects

Globethics.net Consortium on Ethics in Higher Education coming in 6 weeks!

Globethics.net trains 680 professors in Nigeria

Call for papers and events:
Call for posters: The Global Water Crisis
Summer course "Old Catholic Theology in its Ecumenical Context" at the Netherlands
Call for participation: The Global Ecumenical Theological Institute 2018
 

Publications

Values-driven Philanthropy: presentation of the book Entrepreneurs with Christian Values
Meet our author - Jutta Koslowski, Germany

Latest publications:

  • Search for Non-Violent and People-Centric Development
  • Iman Dan Nilai-Nilai Kristiani 


Editorial by Divya singh

Responsible Academic Leadership

The recent Globethics.net publication on ‘Ethics in Higher Education' covers an array of strategic opportunities and risks faced by higher education leaders seeking to achieve sustainability and growth in a technologically challenging, highly innovative, and rapidly changing milieu. Notwithstanding the breadth of issues, the one constant is the re-connection with the notion of the university as an arena of thought-leadership and values-driven responsible citizenship. Today's university leader must be able to balance the core business of the academic project, whilst simultaneously achieving the tenets of good governance, including ethical probity.  An emerging area of emphasis in this latter regard is the way higher education institutions (HEIs) today choose to deal with personal, research and other data in their possession.
 
In the course of their functions, HEIs accumulate vast amounts of information (including personal data) and through the application of analytical techniques they can search, aggregate and cross-reference large data sets with relative ease. These solutions present exciting opportunities with great potential for a generally-improved student experience - but it's not that simple! Big data analysis may equally lead to (often unintended) discrimination, as students are excluded because their information is excluded from the results or the quality of their data is poorer. As the technology itself is typically ethically neutral, it is for the institution using the data to ensure the ethics of the outcomes and good data governance lies at the heart of this. Universities using data analytics must be as alert to the risks as they are to the opportunities and should be able to provide assurance to the data subjects that they have proper data governance instruments in place. As HEIs strive for innovation, ethics should never be compromised.  
 
These are some of the central academic and governance issues that will be discussed at the upcoming Globethics Consortium on Ethics in Higher Education in Geneva in June 2017, where university leadership will have the opportunity to share best practices on integrating good governance and academic scholarship towards a responsible and sustainable higher education system.
 
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GLOBETHICS.NET NETWORK

Globethics.net China

First SDGs and Green Entrepreneurship Training, Beijing

The first Green Entrepreneurship Training under the Sustainable Development Goals was held successfully at the UIBER Space in Beijing on 29 March 2017.

The Green Entrepreneurship Training under the Sustainable Development Goals is a public service training programme jointly sponsored by the Center for Green Entrepreneurship of the UIBE and the Center for Development and Environmental Studies of the University of Oslo. The project aims to disseminate the concept of sustainable development and enhance entrepreneurial skills in order to keep "pace with development goals and practising green entrepreneurship". Read more

Globethics.net India

Report on International Women's Day workshop in India

Globethics.net India and the Gender and Social Justice Desk of the Student Christian Movement of India jointly organised a women's workshop from 7–9 March 2017, in Bangalore. There were 40 participants representing different parts of India and also 16 student participants from Germany. Read more

Globethics.net East-Africa

Ethics for Successful Learning and Social Harmony in Burundi

On 10 April 2017 young people at the International School (École Internationale) in Bujumbura, the capital city of Burundi, took part in a workshop on ‘Ethics as a Foundation for Successful Learning and Social Harmony'. The event followed a workshop held in Bujumbura on 19 December 2016 with the aim to make young people aware of the important place of ethics in learning, learning which otherwise could be shallow, misguided and even sometimes damaging, for example when grades and qualifications are attained through fraudulent means. It was also an opportunity to make the case to the youth for the contribution of ethical thought and practice to the achievement and maintenance of social harmony and stability. Learn more about this workshop

Globethics.net Russia

Globethics.net Russia Competition Strategic Matrix-2017

The Institute for Economic Strategies (INES) in cooperation with the International Futures Research Academy (IFRA) in cooperation with the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) and Globethics.net announced the launch of the XII international intellectual contest "Strategic Matrix – 2017". Read more

 

 

 

Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Justice webinars in Russia

On 17 March 2017, the webinar on the topic "Sustainable Development Goals SDGs through Sufficiency Economy" was delivered at the National Research Nuclear University "MEPhI". The invited lecturer of the webinar was the Founder and President of Globethics.net, Professor Christoph Stückelberger. Check the webinars

 

 

Globethics.net Philippines

First international Globethics.net Philippines Symposium, 19-21 May 2017

The new Globethics.net Philippines office is organising its first international meeting from 19-21 May 2017 in Tagaytay City on the theme ‘Forging Professional Unity Amidst Ethical Challenges for Young Criminal Justice Practitioners'. Click here to join the Symposium

 

 

 

 

Other events:

Globethics.net at International Integrated Reporting Council, New York, USA

Globethics.net Senior Associate Sustainable Development, Dr Teodorina Lessidrenska, represented Globethics.net at the meeting of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) in New York, USA from 25-26 April 2017. The meeting, hosted by the CFA Institute and the New York Society of Security Analysts marked an important milestone in the implementation of the Integrated Reporting (IR) Framework by the growing global IIRC network. Major successes were highlighted during the meeting in the adoption of the IR Framework in the USA, UK, Germany, Brazil, Japan, Australia, Mauritius, Singapore and Malaysia. Globethics.net has been a member of the IIRC, a global coalition of regulators, investors, companies, standard setters, the accounting profession and NGOs, since 2012. Read more

Marking World Health Day 2017

Health and well-being are essential parts of your life. Today 7 April 2017, World Health Day, sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO), is a unique opportunity to mobilize action around a specific health topic of concern to people all over the world. Check our documents related to health

 

 

 

Globethics.net celebrates World Book and Copyright Day 2017

We are joining UNESCO on 23 April, the anniversary of the deaths of two major authors — William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes — to celebrate the cultural, educational and humanist aspects of books on World Book and Copyright Day 2017. Here at the Globethics.net online library, our main priority is to promote the reading, exchange and publishing of books online. We provide access to full-text documents in our digital library on applied ethics free of charge for everyone, whether they are young or old, students or professionals or simply interested in browsing the wealth of information available on ethics in different languages from around the world. Check our celebration

Ethical poetry month 2017 has finished!

April 2017 marked the 21st annual US Poetry Month. As a way of encouraging reflection on ethics in a creative and engaging way, we encouraged our network of participants to write short poems on the topic of Ethics and Global Solidarity. If you haven't done so already, please read and share the fruits of this creative endeavour!


Globethics.net LibrarY

Journals about Ethics in Higher Education and bibliography

A New Collection of 46 Journals on Education and Ethics, downloadable for free by Globethics.net participants, is a clear entry point to the Globethics.net Library collection of journals on education and ethics. Check it now!

Methodist and Wesleyan studies collection

We are pleased to announce a new collection on Methodist and Wesleyan Studies, developed (and still in the process of development) with the support of the Methodist e-Academy, Switzerland; the United Methodist Church; the Methodist Church of Great Britain and the World Methodist Council, available free of charge to scholars and students throughout the world. Check this collection here.

GlobTheoLib Annual Report 2016 is available now

We are happy to announce the release of GlobThoLib (Global Digital Library on Theology and Ecumenism)  Annual Report 2016. We invite you to read and download it here. 

Globethics.net Research / Projects

Globethics Consortium on Ethics in Higher Education

We are pleased to announce that the Launch of the Globethics Consortium for Ethics in Higher Education (GEC) Initiative will take place in Geneva during June 21-23, 2017. The initiative aims to promote ethical governance and leadership in higher education. The target partners are universities and colleges, mostly from the global South and selected higher education institutions from the Northern Hemisphere, to form a Consortium of partners to support teaching and research in Ethics, creating a framework of cooperation for equal opportunities and access to quality education around the world. The initiative aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) (no. 4) as set by the UNESCO Framework for Action 2030. Find more information here...

Globethics.net trains 680 professors in Nigeria

Over 600 professors and lecturers have been trained during six days from 7-13 April 2017 at the University of Nigeria (UNN) in cooperation with Globethics.net. The training on ‘Ethics in Higher Education' was the first ‘Mandatory Training of all Post-graduate Teachers/Supervisors' at the UNN. Read about it here...

 

 

Call for papers and events:

 

Publications

Values-driven Philanthropy: presentation of the book Entrepreneurs with Christian Values

"What is the role of Christian entrepreneurship in the world, in churches and in the Ecumenical movement?" - it was this question that set the tone of the event organised by the Geneva Agape Foundation (GAF) together with the World Council of Churches (WCC) on 27 April 2017 in Geneva, Switzerland. The event was moderated by Prof. Dr Isabel Apawo Phiri, Deputy General Secretary of the WCC and Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Christoph Stückelberger, Executive Director of GAF and President of Globethtics.net who presented the book Entrepreneurs with Christian Values published by Globethics.net. Read more...

 

Meet our author - Jutta Koslowski, Germany

Dr Jutta Koslowski, 47 years of age, is a graduate in Protestant as well as in Catholic and Orthodox theology and is a distinguished scholar in ecumenism. ‘Prospects and Challenges for the Ecumenical Movement in the 21st Century' (2016) is the volume that she co-wrote and co-edited, published by Globethics Publications in the Global series. Find more about our author...

 

 

 

Latest publications:

Search for Non-Violent and People-Centric Development (2017)

John M. Itty
ISBN 978-2-88931-185-9

Market-centric development is not only unjust, inequitable, unsustainable, but also violent. The end of development-aggressive consumption, and the means—aggressive production, trade and accumulation—make development anti-people. The more marketable wealth is produced, the more ill-fare is brought instead of welfare. Financialisation of the economy and neglect of the ecology bring financial and ecological crises. Neglect of non-marketable wealth, like love, caring, sharing, concern for others and social/cultural capital, are the reasons for this malady. Only people-centric development that fosters the production of non-marketable wealth along with marketable wealth can promote welfare. In this book, the author highlights the importance of reducing the production of wealth with negative utility, the need to foster the spirituality of development, and suggests a few non-market programmes to promote people-centric development.

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Iman Dan Nilai-Nilai Kristiani (2017)

Cui Wantian; Yahya Wijaya; Christoph Stückelberger
ISBN 978-2-88931-116-3

Keimanan adalah kapal induk dari sebuah kapal yang disebut "Impian China". Kunci dari pencapaian "Impian China" ini adalah kebangkitan Peradaban China. Inti dari peradaban adalah kebudayaan, dan inti dari kebudayaan adalah keimanan. Sejarah telah membuktikan bahwa keberlangsungan pembangunan sebuah Negara atau bangsa selalu membutuhkan kelas khusus yang bukan hanya pembangunan ekonomi tetapi juga memegang erat etka dan moralitas. Kelompok-kelompok pengusaha Kristen China yang bermunculan adalah bagian penting dari kelas tersebut bagi China. Buku ini menyajikan sebuah orientasi dan dasar mengenai keimanan Kristen bagi Pengusaha Kristen China: tentang Yesus Kristus, Al Kitab, doktrin-doktrin dasar, spiritualitas, sejarah Gereja, denominasi-denominasi dan dua belas kriteria bagi bisnis Kristen.

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