Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs is delighted to announce the winners of its 2017 International Student/Teacher Essay Contest.

ESSAY TOPIC: In your opinion, what is the greatest ethical challenge facing the world today?

The five winning essays address sexual exploitation, geoengineering, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, and the universal right to education. There were no winners in the…

Name: Micah

School: Homeschooled

Grade: 11th

                                                                Problems with religion

Since the beginning of time, people have had religion to give them a more fulfilling and purposeful life. They feel more comfortable having something not of this world that they can get help from when all else fails. In fact, many people keep religion simply because they are afraid of being alone in the world and feel…

Mitchell Levinson

Bard College

Undergraduate 

Written Collaboratively with teacher/administrator Brian Mateo (Bard College).

Democratic systems have historically tried to generate popular confidence in governmental entities and encourage people to participate in the system. Despite recent worldwide reforms made to ensure free and fair elections, authoritarian governments still limit suffrage. Ballot tampering, violent boycotts, and discrimination are trends in…

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Andrew Yoon

Seoul International School 

Education: A Last Chance

There is a girl in the rural areas of Western China, wiping crystal beads of sweat off her forehead as she cooks whatever’s left in the house for her siblings. She is cradled within the silence created by her parent’s absence, counting how many days remain…

Name: Soo Hyun Kim

School: St. Paul's School (USA)

High School Student, 12th grade

International Regulation of Genetic Engineering: Ethical Considerations in the 21st Century

In an age dominated by competitive materialism, we have designer shoes, designer handbags, and designer faces. South Korea, my native country, accounts for nearly one-fourth of the global market for plastic surgery, and…

Today, the world faces numerous ethical challenges; abortion, drug testing on animals and euthanasia among others. Varying opinions are exuded as to what the greatest could be. Why don’t we analyse one quite major but often side-lined, deeply inaugurated into our day to day lives; the favour bank.

What is the favour bank? To illustrate, travel with me if you may; Maria, with all necessary qualifications to be a university lecturer, in fact, more qualified than some already employed in…

Written by Hussein Habeeb,

Undergraduate student,

University of Ilorin,

Ilorin, Nigeria

COULD IT BE EGOCENTRISM?

As if I envisioned a tendency to write on this topic that I once concerned myself with the human situation. I had, out of frustration, once considered why, in the world today, we are tangled with a lot of problems (political, social, economic and environmental). Eventually, I couldn’t help concluding that the problems we…

Bioethics: Guarded haste Vs. unfettered indiscretion.

By

Mrs Halisa Sani,

Lecturer, Department of Chemistry,

Sa'adatu Rimi College of Education,

Kano,

Kano State,

Nigeria.

Nature in its grueling experimentations of over 10 billion years since the big bang, has achieved tremendous results. These were experiments not guided by fame, greed or prize, and in which it was un-hurried by any supervising authority, rival researchers or…

Name: Edet, Samuel

Institution: University of Calabar.

Level: Undergraduate.

Moral Bankruptcy: The Greatest Ethical Challenge Facing The Planet Today

It is thirty minutes past seven in the morning, Nigerian time.

I wake up to dawn in a nondescript town etched somewhere on the Nigerian map. The sun is wrapped in a shroud of glory only the iconic pens of Chinua Achebe and William Shakespeare can effectively describe. The natural…

SOCIAL INJUSTICE, THE GREATEST ETHICAL CHALLENGE FACING THE WORLD TODAY

BY

ONOWORI FEGO

STUDENT(UNDERGRADUATE) AT UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS

Our world today is in a bewildered state enshrouded with so much perversity and malodorous act in such a way that it is almost difficult to distinguish between the inoffensive and the offensive and this has gone a long way and has eaten deeply into the fabrics of our society. Many have concluded that corruption is the world's problem, some…

The Corporate Collusion

Arijit Goswami

Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, India

Turn on your computers, rush to Google and type “oxymoron examples”. The words that will certainly make an entry in the top list are “Business Ethics”. Businesses…

The ultimate challenge we are facing today as a world, is lack of good governance/failed governance. Chaos are everywhere in the world. Rise of new diseases, war, famine, hunger, poverty, terrorism and many others. The root cause of all these lack of proper or good governance.

The so called developed countries are all fighting against terrorism, and manufacturing of strong weapons like nuclear weapons which endangers the life of the whole world. Lot of money is used in different…

She looked at the mouldy ceiling and saw how the moths were attracted to the light. They flew closer, in fascination, but never knew what was coming for them when they came too close to the electric glow of a bug zapper instead. And then the girl looks out the window and sees the neon signs which not so long ago she saw from afar.…

CENSORSHIP: THE TRUE VILLAIN

Aidan Blevins, 10th grade at New Albany High School

The Internet is comprised of approximately four and a half billion web pages. For many of us, this number is incomprehensible. The…

Name: Ekaterina Polynina

School: State Institute of Economics, Finance, Law and Technology, Gatchina, Russia

Status: Student…

Ubong Joshua,

University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria,

Undergraduate student.

As a student, in 2016 I got an annual scholarship of #150,000. The fund was for my tuition, textbooks, and other expenses. It was a huge relief to my family that was getting overburdened with my academic expenses. Yet, everytime I thought about the scholarship, I felt a plague haunting me. I tried as much as I could, but could not neglect it. It reminded that one of the documents I used to obtain the…

Essay Topic: In your own opinion, what is the greatest ethical challenge

Name: Emmanuella Chisom James (15)

School: Stafford House International Schools, Nigeria…