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We are happy to announce ‘PRAJNANAM’- an International Conference on

Liberating Learning, on 7-9th  June, 2013, jointly organised by a

handful of outstanding organisations like, CHILDREN’S UNIVERSITY,

Gujarat, ERA GUJARAT, BHARTIYA SHIKSHAN MANDAL, GUJARAT PRANT, HIGHER

EDUCATION FORUM, GUJARAT CHAPTER and enlightened individuals including

some 10 Vice Chancellors and the more heads of universities and

colleges from…

Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs is pleased to announce the addition of three new Global Ethics Fellows and a new Senior Fellow.

Global Ethics Fellows lie at the heart of Carnegie Council's expanding Global Ethics Network.

These Fellows are intellectual leaders…

DEVIN STEWART: Professor Pogge, as we were talking about earlier, you have been thinking about the arc of history and your thoughts about the world we're living in today. If you could just start off by telling us, how do you see the world we live in today, especially from a moral perspective?

THOMAS POGGE:…

Ayse Kaya of Swarthmore College reviews Global Civics: Responsibilities and Rights in an Interdependent World, Hakan Altinay, ed. (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2011), 145 pp., $18.95 paper. Republished from …

DEVIN STEWART: How do you see the age in which we live? How is it distinct from a moral perspective?

PANKAJ GHEMAWAT: I think that the age we live in is distinct from a moral perspective from the ones that preceded it, certainly in terms of the awareness or the ability to be aware of what's happening to other people in…

DEVIN STEWART: How do you describe the world we live in? How is it distinct from previous ages and particularly in a moral sense?

VICTOR CHA: Well, I think that it's difficult to disconnect questions of morality these days from technology in the sense that, the rate at which information travels and the…

Our colleague Dietrich Fischer would like to share this opportunity with the Network:

The World Peace Academy (WPA), in cooperation with the Advanced Study Center at the University of Basel, offers a 9-month full time Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Peace and Conflict…

The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics hosts scholars and students wishing to engage in research in practical and applied ethics as academic visitors. The Centre is an integral part of the Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University, one of the great centres of academic excellence…

The DUKE UNIVERSITY Sanford School of Public Policy, in conjunction with the Kenan Institute for Ethics, invites applications from scholars whose principal research, teaching, and policy interests focus on international human rights and related questions of global governance, political philosophy, or international law. The position is open rank, tenure-line. We invite applications…

Our Second Annual Global Ethics Fellows Conference in New York City last week was a great success. Here is an overview of some of the proceedings.

Panel I: Cultural and Universal Norms

Panel I, led by Kei Hiruta, Helle Porsdam, Hakan Altinay, Deen Chatterjee, Aine Donovan, Fernanda Duarte,…

I attended a luncheon last Friday with the Dean of the Graduate School at Virginia Tech and several faculty and graduate students. While the discussions revolved around issues of ethics on a campus as diverse as Virginia Tech, with close to 7,000 graduate students from across the world, the central theme of the discussions was: Has the discussion surrounding ethics devolved into one of compliance alone?

Dean Karen Depaw noted that unfortunately this seems to be the trend, though there…

Carnegie Council is pleased to announce that Michael Ignatieff will chair the Council's Centennial project, "Ethics for a Connected World." This long-term education program consists of worldwide activities for teachers, students, and the general public around the…

Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs announces its first Trans-Pacific Student Contest, a unique experiment in U.S.-Asia collaboration. The contest is part of Ethics for a Connected World, a three-year global education project to mark the…

Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs announces its fourth annual International Essay Contest. This competition is open to both teachers and students anywhere in the world.

From climate change, to terrorism, to global financial crises, many of the greatest problems facing us in the 21st century transcend national borders. All involve…

NEW YORK, NY—Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs is pleased to welcome the newest class of Global Ethics Fellows.   

Global Ethics Fellows lie at the heart of Carnegie Council’s Global Ethics Network, a platform for…

Stephen Walt has an interesting blog post over at Foreign Policy on the "Top ten things that would-be foreign policy wonks should study." It's basically a list of classic liberal arts education, which Walt acknowledges at the end.…

I'm excited to announce that Ethics & International Affairs has just published its summer 2012 issue, which is…

(It's 6:00 a.m., any day of your choice in August…

Last month, Mitt Romney called Russia America's number one geopolitical foe, sparking people to ask if such a thing really existed. It sounded like Romney was trying to bring back the Cold War or his understanding of foreign policy hasn’t evolved since then.

The number one geopolitical challenge to the United States right now is the sour, partisan, retrograde politics in Washington itself. The United States remains by far the most influential country in the world, but this position is…