We are pleased to present the Winter 2017 issue of Ethics & International Affairs!

This issue contains essays by Jonathan D. Caverley on how to slow the proliferation of major conventional weapons and Janos Pasztor on why…

The University of Arkansas hosted several events on Wednesday, Oct. 18, as a part of the Global Ethics Day, sponsored by the Carnegie Council. 

The Global Ethics Day events were held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Arkansas Union Connections Lounge and emphasized the campus as a community that develops people to solve problems and…

Ethics & International Affairs, the quarterly peer-reviewed publication of the Carnegie Council, is pleased to invite submissions for upcoming issues.



The journal bridges the gap between theory and practice by featuring articles, essays, and reviews that integrate rigorous thinking about principles of ethics and justice into discussions of practical…

This year on Global Ethics Day, the University of Oklahoma's Integrity Council asked students, "How does contract cheating devalue your education?" 

Read all of the responses here.…

Anissa from Markkula Ethics Center at Santa Clara University wishes everyone a happy Global Ethics Day! For more resources on the Markkula Ethics Center, follow this link, and check out their new series of videos!…

This post was first published by the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation on October 18, and is posted here with kind permission.

By Karin Abbor-Svensson

There are plenty of them: international days where awareness and action are demanded on global issues from peace, water, and youth to poetry, yoga and…

This post was first published by The Times of Malta on October 18, and is posted here with kind permission.

The 2016 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature, Bob Dylan, was and still is one of my favourite songwriters. In 1964 he released the album The Times They Are a-Changin. After all these years, the beautiful title song of this album is…

Something we can all agree on #TheGoldenRule

Globethics.net is joining the Global Ethics Day initiative established by the Carnegie Council, which has been held each year in October since its launch…

CREDIT: Jeroen Mul

Can cultural rights become a global discourse for supporting inclusive social and political development, and for fostering intercultural dialogue for the mutual understanding of…

Syrian Refugees, Turkey-Syria Border, February 2015. CREDIT: Shutterstock

This was to be, and will be, an article on the crisis of the growing refugee influx from Syria, Iraq, and beyond into Europe. It was to begin with a quote from the former foreign minister of Germany, …

This article was written by Laura Tyson and Anu Madgavkar. It was first published on Project Syndicate. 

BERKELEY – The high cost of gender inequality has been documented extensively. But a …

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This excerpt is from an article first published on November 14, 2015, in the Observer News and is…

Two Clark Honors College Students, Rachel Grant and Michael Enseki-Frank, were among an elite group invited to discuss their research on international ethics and human rights at a recent meeting of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York City.

The two…

Acropolis and the Greek Parliament CREDIT:GNTO / Yannis Skoulas (CC)

This piece was written for the International New York…

Global Ethics Day

Friday, October 16, 2015 12:00 AM to 11:59 PM

Much is being made of the Vatican’s uncharacteristic statements lending support for limited use of force against ISIS [Vice News].   The most recent came from Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Holy See’s representative to the UN agencies in Geneva and Vienna.  In an interview with Crux, Archbishop Tomasi said, "We have to stop this kind of genocide.  Otherwise we'll be…

Satya, Treata ,Dvapara-all three Yugas has gone by. The god is still asleep and the world is gaining its potentiality. Both the positive and negative attitude within a person is missing and so human has started to justify every action under the clout of dharma-nobody knows whether it is right or wrong. Pratiharas-the guardians of the mortal world are guarding this world like the apple of their eyes so that no trespassers can penetrate into this world. The sixteen states of the AryaVarta are…

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 …