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Education is the key to thriving families, communities and countries. Let's give our children and our future the opportunity to learn and achieve their potential, so we're asking world leaders to ACT and break down the barriers preventing millions of girls and boys around the world from going to school and receiving a quality education.

A World At School is an initiative to raise awareness and advocate for the 59 million children who are out of school. As a Global Youth Ambassador for…

The past week has confirmed that despite the Burmese government's made-for-export show of reforms, there is still no such thing as political freedom in Burma. Yet, you probably haven't read anything about the nation's ongoing (but increasingly repressed) student protests in this week's headlines. That's largely because the regime has responded in such a way that is threatening enough to stifle dissent at home, but not violent enough to invoke international outrage. This is the "sweet spot"…

Over the past few months, the world has largely overlooked a series of peaceful protests by Burmese students that began in November, coinciding with President Obama’s visit to the Southeast Asian nation. The students are protesting the country’s new National Education Law, which maintains close, centralized government control of the nation’s educational institutions and limit students’ freedom of association (read more…

Our imagination can be our source of inspiration, but it also can be our downfall. So, the task of imagining a better future will be a no easy task, since we are susceptible to our sometimes selfish, melancholic, or even altruistic reasoning without thinking the realistic capabilities of our imagination. Therefore, when I was imagining my perspective of better future, I would like to imagine without restriction, in terms of feasibility or even our present capabilities.   

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A big THANK YOU goes out to everyone who participated in our 2014 Trans-Pacific Contest! 

The winning entry came from Salina Lee (USA) and …

Global Civics Academy is a new online academy founded by Carnegie Council Global Ethics Fellow Hakan Altinay. It offers an online course on Global Civics that covers many of the…

With so many competing claims in our connected world, what's the right thing to do?

To find out, Carnegie Council invited world-changing visionaries and role models from diverse professions, backgrounds,…

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In The Ethics of Preventive War, a new book edited by Carnegie Council Global Ethics Fellow Deen Chatterjee, 11 leading theorists debate the normative challenges of preventive war through the lens of important public and political…

Global Ethics Fellow Shaul Cohen is an associate professor in the Department of Geography and co-director of the Peace Studies Program at the University of Oregon. He updates us on the events and achievement of the Carnegie Global Oregon collaborative…

On a recent trip to Kenya, I had the opportunity to meet primary school students living near my campsite.  My initial thought process regarding the impoverished in developing nations was akin to the thoughts much of the general North American public has.  I did myself, and the…

Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs announces its second Trans-Pacific Student Contest, a pioneering exercise in U.S.-Asia collaboration. The contest is part of Ethics for a Connected World, a three-year global education project to mark the Council's 2014 Centennial.…

Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs announces its fifth annual International Essay Contest, open to teachers and students anywhere in the world.

As part of Carnegie Council's Ethics for a Connected World project, we are asking…

Dear Global Ethics Network, We're pleased to announce the winner of our 2013 Trans-Pacific Student Contest. Please see the press release below for more details:

What is the greatest ethical challenge facing U.S.-Asia relations? In this unique contest, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs challenged American and East…

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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…