Thought Leader: Tomas Sedlacek (Point B Podcast) | 05/15/13 "To use the New Testament sort of logic, who is my neighbor? Today that extends not only to your family or your literal neighbors. We know much more about the situations of poor people in China or India or Africa, and so the scope of ethical responsibility today has grown to some global measures."
Thought Leader Jessica Jackley on Connecting With Others (Video Clip) | 05/08/13 "My wish for every human being would be that, out of a sense of gratitude for what they do in their own lives, out of a sense of a desire to be connected to other people in the world, whether it's online or in some other way, they reach out; they reach out beyond themselves."
Thought Leader: Jessica Jackley (Point B Podcast) | 05/08/13 "What many people can no longer claim is ignorance, especially those of us that do have easy access to technology. We know not only that these problems exist, but there are endless options, really great options, to do something to engage and to participate."
Thought Leader: Sir David Cannadine (Transcript) | 05/07/13 "Actually, for most of human history, most people have lived at peace with each other. We constantly need to remind ourselves of that and ask how and why that has been possible. From that perspective, the aberrant mode of human behavior is war."
Thought Leader: Rachel Kleinfeld (Point B Podcast) | 05/02/13 "We're in an age where every person can have access to global information. If they have access to a cell phone, which most of the world now has access to, they can be a voice for awareness, for ethicality within their community and across the globe."
Thought Leader Rachel Kleinfeld on Two Types of People (Video Clip) | 05/02/13 "There are people who have less of that makeup and who are much more likely to see 'yes, and . . . ' solutions, 'both of us together in the same common humanity' solutions, who don't draw the same distinctions between groups all the time."
Is World Peace Possible? Answers to This and other Big Questions from 50 Thought Leaders around the World | 05/02/13 As part of its 2014 Centennial project, Carnegie Council is asking Thought Leaders around the world to answer big moral questions. We just reached the symbolic milestone of 50 interviews, and there will be many more to come.
Thought Leader: Louise Arbour (Transcript) | 05/01/13 "I believe that we have achieved very high levels of universal norms enunciation, in legal instruments, in our literature. I think the normative environment is very impressive. The disconnect is between the norms and their enforcement."
Thought Leader Dan Ariely on Global Morality & Diplomat Parking (Video Clip) | 04/24/13 "When I think about global morality, the good news is that we're all very similar. The bad news is that, domain-by-domain-specific, we can actually get very bad lessons from society around us about what is acceptable and not acceptable."
Thought Leader: Dan Ariely (Point B Podcast) | 04/24/13 "The good news is that we're figuring out some of the big mistakes people are making, and if we figure out in time, we can try to fight that and actually do things in a better way."
Thought Leader Robert Kaplan on China's Uncertain Future (Video Clip) | 04/18/13 "Will China, after a few unsteady years, resume its growth, leading to China becoming a power on the scale of the United States? Will China come apart? Will it decompose into regions?"
Thought Leader: Robert Kaplan (Point B Podcast) | 04/18/13 "I see a world driven by a loss of central authority, which creates its own moral problems as a consequence."
Thought Leader: E. O. Wilson (Point B Podcast) | 04/11/13 "A global ethic, which is absolutely necessary to meet the destructive forces that our intellectual and technological powers have given us to meet and solve the big problems that are promoted by it, depends upon a much more thorough knowledge of what we are."
Thought Leader: Srdja Popovic (Point B Podcast) | 04/05/13 "There are two kinds of countries in this world, the good ones and the bad ones. The good ones I count as the countries where the governments are afraid of their people. The bad ones I count as the countries where people are afraid of their governments."
Thought Leader Ethan Zuckerman on Cute Cats and Human Rights (Video Clip) | 04/03/13 "If you start distributing your human rights videos on YouTube, it's really hard for the government to suddenly say, 'We're going to shut down YouTube. We want nothing to do with all of that.' And if they do, they reveal themselves as censors."
Thought Leader Thomas Pogge on the Health Impact Fund (Video Clip) | 03/27/13 Yale's Thomas Pogge describes the Health Impact Fund, which creates incentives for the pharmaceutical industry to develop new drugs and then keep prices down so poor people can afford them.
Thought Leader: Thomas Pogge (Point B Podcast) | 03/27/13 "The tendencies are hostile to achieving perpetual peace. But these tendencies do not have to be accepted the way they are. Once we understand what they are, we may be able to overcome them."
Thought Leader: Mary Robinson (Transcript) | 03/22/13 "What strikes me about the world today is that it's a world of 7 billion people who are more connected than ever before, and yet the divides are huge. We see growing inequality both within countries and between countries. I'm not sure that we can continue like this and be socially cohesive."
Thought Leader: Bineta Diop (Transcript) | 03/21/13 "For me, leadership is also feminine. I always say that the men who have feminine values are part of the criteria for me to look for in leadership. It is that touch, that caring, giving, solidarity. Those are things that for me are very fundamental in leadership."
Thought Leader: Ethan Zuckerman (Point B Podcast) | 03/20/13 "I'd really like to see us get globalization right. For me, getting globalization right wouldn't mean that we have stuff from every corner of the world, but would mean that we have people and ideas and opportunities and solutions from every corner of the world."
Thought Leader: Hans Kung (Transcript) | 03/19/13 World peace may never be achieved, but the EU shows that peace is possible if everybody cooperates. I insist on the importance of religions: No peace among nations without peace between religions. No peace between religions without a dialogue between religions. No dialogue between religions without shared ethical values and standards.
Thought Leader: Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (Transcript) | 03/15/13 "The whole moral equation has become incredibly difficult, whether in terms of space or in terms of time. The moral community is now spread out across the world. Consequences are now long-term and not short-term. All in all, we have not yet evolved moralities that can really solve these problems."
Thought Leader: Nancy Birdsall (Transcript) | 03/15/13 "I believe that improving other people's lives everywhere is not only, or even mostly, about ensuring they have services, but ensuring that they are participating in a system that is accountable to them and where they have voice about decisions that affect them. Leadership is about working with people to maximize those choices."
Thought Leader: Jay Winter (Transcript) | 03/13/13 "I think the word 'leadership' is one that we should use only in conjunction with the word 'humility,' and to see the effect of leadership as lessening the damage of history, rather than creating a vast set of opportunities. It's a mixed view of leadership, but it doesn't ignore it completely."
Thought Leader: Michael Doyle (Point B Podcast) | 03/13/13 "What has changed in the modern world is that we can now see our fellow members of the common human moral universe and we cannot be so blind. We can see the suffering. That's a big change that has taken place in the past couple of centuries."
Thought Leader Michael Doyle on the Kantian Approach to International Affairs (Video) | 03/13/13 "He’s not just a constitution designer. He’s certainly not a political scientist. For him, this philosophic exercise, the real purpose of it was to provide the moral grounds for which statesmen should strive to attain peace, because it was hypothetically possible."
Thought Leader: Andrew Nathan (Transcript) | 03/12/13 "I am looking for a social solution. I am looking for the political system to create a solution in which everyone will participate. Otherwise, my individual participation is not going to really make a difference. But then one tends to feel rather helpless about that."
Thought Leader: Tariq Ramadan (Transcript) | 03/12/13 "Every tradition, every religion, every culture or civilization might have a specific path and we join and we meet at the summit. Global ethics is what we get at the summit, but we have to accept that there are different routes and we are all coming from a specific route and we will find ourselves sharing so many values with others."
Thought Leader: Tomas Sedlacek (Transcript) | 03/08/13 "To use the New Testament sort of logic, who is my neighbor? Today that extends not only to your family or your literal neighbors. We know much more about the situations of poor people in China or India or Africa, and so the scope of ethical responsibility today has grown to some global measures."
Thought Leader: Gillian Tett (Point B Podcast) | 03/06/13 "On the most basic level, a global ethic should be a recognition that we simply cannot afford to ignore our neighbors, even if they don't appear to immediately have much connectivity to us."
Thought Leader Gillian Tett on Moral Leadership (Video Clip) | 03/06/13 "Moral leadership means having the courage to do things that may be unpopular, to speak truth even though it may not be what people want to hear, but also to retain a sense of humility."
Thought Leader: Peter Morales (Transcript) | 03/06/13 "So the real challenge for me and anyone in a position of moral leadership isn't what we say; it's what we do and our willingness to be out there and to speak truth to power and to try to hold people, whether they're in politics or in industry, to account to the moral positions that they actually espouse themselves."
Thought Leader: Jessica Jackley (Transcript) | 03/05/13 "What many people can no longer claim is ignorance, especially those of us that do have easy access to technology. We know not only that these problems exist, but there are endless options, really great options, to do something to engage and to participate."
Thought Leader: Hawa Abdi (Transcript) | 03/05/13 "We are the same people in this world on the same planet, so we have to respect each other, we have to love each other. We have to throw out hate."
Thought Leader: Dan Ariely (Transcript) | 03/04/13 "The good news is that we're figuring out some of the big mistakes people are making, and if we figure out in time, we can try to fight that and actually do things in a better way."
Thought Leader: Rachel Kleinfeld (Transcript) | 03/01/13 "We're in an age where every person can have access to global information. If they have access to a cell phone, which most of the world now has access to, they can be a voice for awareness, for ethicality within their community and across the globe."
Thought Leader: Alan S. Blinder (Transcript) | 02/28/13 "Democracy is a code word or an accompaniment of freedom. The relevant part of freedom in this case is freedom of enterprise, freedom to work where you please, freedom to move for better opportunities, and the freedom to get education."
Thought Leader: E. O. Wilson (Transcript) | 02/28/13 "A global ethic, which is absolutely necessary to meet the destructive forces that our intellectual and technological powers have given us to meet and solve the big problems that are promoted by it, depends upon a much more thorough knowledge of what we are."
Thought Leader Rebecca MacKinnon on the Internet's Effect on Democracy (Video Clip) | 02/27/13 "I think there's tremendous potential in the technology, but we have to use it responsibly. We need to figure out how we create the right structures that empower and maximize the good and constrain the evil."
Thought Leader: Rebecca MacKinnon (Point B Podcast) | 02/27/13 "Even dictatorships go to great lengths to create these fake elections to prove to the world that they have consent of the governed. It's sort of an organizing principle of the nation-state."
Thought Leader: Robert D. Kaplan (Transcript) | 02/27/13 "I see a world driven by a loss of central authority, which creates its on moral problems as a consequence."
Thought Leader: Srdja Popovic (Transcript) | 02/25/13 "There are two kinds of countries in this world, the good ones and the bad ones. The good ones I count as the countries where the governments are afraid of their people. The bad ones I count as the countries where people are afraid of their governments."
Thought Leader: Ethan Zuckerman (Transcript) | 02/22/13 "I'd really like to see us get globalization right. For me, getting globalization right wouldn't mean that we have stuff from every corner of the world, but would mean that we have people and ideas and opportunities and solutions from every corner of the world."
Thought Leader Kishore Mahbubani on the Great Convergence (Video Clip) | 02/22/13 "By 2030, probably more than half the world’s population is going to enjoy middle class living standards. That, in moral and ethical terms, is a remarkably positive development, because the capacity of people to escape the imprisonment of poverty is going to grow dramatically in the next few decades."
Thought Leader: Kishore Mahbubani (Point B Podcast) | 02/22/13 "You've got to balance national interest against global interest. I think that's the direction in which global ethics is going to go."
Thought Leader: Somaly Mam (Transcript) | 02/15/13 "When the people say, "Somaly, what you do is bad," I always see my good, my peace, a reality. When I see the girls that have been saved when they were six years old, and right now they are in law school and they get married--then I have done a great thing, and I have my peace in my mind."
Thought Leader: Richard Lugar (Point B Podcast) | 02/13/13 "I do approach it in a positive way, that we ought to be thinking about nutrition for every human being, keeping people alive so they have a chance to learn and to be productive."
Thought Leader: Thomas Pogge (Transcript) | 02/07/13 "The tendencies are hostile to achieving perpetual peace. But these tendencies do not have to be accepted the way they are. Once we understand what they are, we may be able to overcome them."
Luis Moreno-Ocampo: What is the World's Greatest Ethical Challenge? (Video Clip) | 02/07/13 "The new world, the 21st century is about global communication and global citizenship. I see this particularly in the young people."
Thought Leader: Jonathan Haidt (Point B Podcast) | 02/06/13 "My general view is that left and right are like yin and yang. I think it's great to have one side that's calling attention to global issues and one side that's wary of the solutions."
Thought Leader: Luis Moreno-Ocampo (Point B Podcast) | 01/30/13 "The new world, the 21st century is about global communication and global citizenship. I see this particularly in the young people."
Thought Leader: Michael Walzer (Point B Podcast) | 01/23/13 "Where is the political space within which you can organize and mobilize for greater equality across the globe? That's a question I don't have an answer to, but I think it is a central question for those of us who set a high value on human equality."
Thought Leader: Enrique Penalosa (Point B Podcast) | 01/16/13 "The wealthy have a responsibility to have a certain degree of austerity, to show that they are admired and respected, not because they have material wealth, but because of their contribution to society."
Thought Leader: Enrique Penalosa (Video Clip) | 01/16/13 "I believe nation-states will become weaker and weaker, and the faster they disappear, the better, because they create hatreds and they create inequality and they create environmental degradation."
Thought Leader: Michael Doyle (Transcript) | 01/14/13 "What has changed in the modern world is that we can now see our fellow members of the common human moral universe and we cannot be so blind. We can see the suffering. That's a big change that has taken place in the past couple of centuries."
Thought Leader: Gillian Tett (Transcript) | 01/14/13 "On the most basic level, a global ethic should be a recognition that we simply cannot afford to ignore our neighbors, even if they don't appear to immediately have much connectivity to us."
Thought Leader: Rebecca MacKinnon (Transcript) | 01/14/13 "Even dictatorships go to great lengths to create these fake elections to prove to the world that they have consent of the governed. It's sort of an organizing principle of the nation-state."
Thought Leader: Kishore Mahbubani (Transcript) | 01/14/13 "You've got to balance national interest against global interest. I think that's the direction in which global ethics is going to go."
Thought Leader: Richard Lugar (Transcript) | 01/14/13 "I do approach it in a positive way, that we ought to be thinking about nutrition for every human being, keeping people alive so they have a chance to learn and to be productive."
Thought Leader: Jonathan Haidt (Transcript) | 01/14/13 "My general view is that left and right are like yin and yang. I think it's great to have one side that's calling attention to global issues and one side that's wary of the solutions."
Thought Leader: Ahmed Rashid (Point B Podcast) | 01/09/13 "Violence is linked to a continued intolerance of minorities. In many countries in many parts of the world, this is something we inherited from the 20th century."
Thought Leader: Steve Coll (Point B Podcast) | 12/19/12 "I do believe there is a global ethic. It has to do with the dignity of individuals, the right to security and liberty, both. I do believe that the human condition in its social setting is universal enough to give rise to global rights and global ethics."
Thought Leader: Pankaj Ghemawat (Point B Podcast) | 12/13/12 "What I have in mind with rooted cosmopolitanism and distance sensitivity is something that's much, much more practical and to my mind achievable."
Thought Leader: Mary Ellen Iskenderian (Point B Podcast) | 11/28/12 "I'm a huge believer in role models. I think that pretty much any woman who gets up and puts herself out there, whether she wants to be or not, is a role model."
Thought Leader: Carne Ross (Point B Podcast) | 11/14/12 "At the heart of this form of anarchist theory, which is what this is, is a belief that true self-determination, self-realization of the self, can only be fulfilled without authority."
Thought Leader: Carne Ross (Video Clip) | 11/14/12 "At the heart of this form of anarchist theory, which is what this is, is a belief that true self-determination, self-realization of the self, can only be fulfilled without authority."
Thought Leader: Dambisa Moyo (Video Clip) | 11/13/12 "Moral leadership to me is about selflessness. But in a world of personal aggrandizement and short-term-ism, I do fear that we'll see less moral leadership and perhaps more of what we don't want."
Thought Leader: Kwame Anthony Appiah (Point B Podcast) | 11/07/12 "The more our societies are in conversation, the more likely it is, when it comes to having to make the hard decisions that are involved in discussions where you have to settle something, the more likely we are to be able to do it."
Thought Leader Juan Somavia on World Peace (Video Clip) | 10/23/12 "We may have globalization, we have more interconnectedness, lots of things are happening, more trade. But what's the moral compass? You have the feeling that the compass is 'If you can get away with it, it's all right. If you are not found out, okay.'"
Thought Leader: Luis Moreno-Ocampo (Transcript) | 09/07/12 "The new world, the 21st century is about global communication and global citizenship. I see this particularly in the young people."
Thought Leader: Michael Walzer (Transcript) | 09/07/12 "Where is the political space within which you can organize and mobilize for greater equality across the globe? That's a question I don't have an answer to, but I think it is a central question for those of us who set a high value on human equality."
Thought Leader: David Shinn (Transcript) | 09/05/12 "What is important is to keep the global ethics debate alive in as many arenas as possible so that an increasing circle of individuals and opinion leaders can increase their common agreement."
Thought Leader: Dambisa Moyo (Transcript) | 09/05/12 "Moral leadership to me is about selflessness. But in a world of personal aggrandizement and short-term-ism, I do fear that we'll see less moral leadership and perhaps more of what we don't want."
Thought Leader: Enrique Penalosa (Transcript) | 09/05/12 "The wealthy have a responsibility to have a certain degree of austerity, to show that they are admired and respected, not because they have material wealth, but because of their contribution to society."
Thought Leader: Anne-Marie Slaughter (Transcript) | 09/05/12 "There are things we can't do, even with all the power of the United States. But then we shouldn't hide from it. We shouldn't turn away and pretend that something else is happening."
Thought Leader: Kwame Anthony Appiah (Transcript) | 09/05/12 "The more our societies are in conversation, the more likely it is, when it comes to having to make the hard decisions that are involved in discussions where you have to settle something, the more likely we are to be able to do it."
Thought Leader: Syd Mead (Transcript) | 09/05/12 "Morality is character. It's the ability to analyze and see how you fit into the overall social hierarchy. So the morality to me is just a sort of sensitivity to what is essentially fair."
Thought Leader: Juan Somavia (Transcript) | 09/05/12 "We may have globalization, we have more interconnectedness, lots of things are happening, more trade. But what's the moral compass? You have the feeling that the compass is 'If you can get away with it, it's all right. If you are not found out, okay.'"
Thought Leader: Pankaj Ghemawat (Transcript) | 09/05/12 "What I have in mind with rooted cosmopolitanism and distance sensitivity is something that's much, much more practical and to my mind achievable."
Thought Leader: Carne Ross (Transcript) | 09/05/12 "At the heart of this form of anarchist theory, which is what this is, is a belief that true self-determination, self-realization of the self, can only be fulfilled without authority."
Thought Leader: Victor Cha (Transcript) | 09/05/12 "Technology creates all this open space that needs to be filled. And if you leave space to be filled, people fill it by saying things that don't make a whole lot of sense and so there's less accountability in today's day and age and less care is put into what is said publicly."
Thought Leader: Ian Bremmer (Transcript) | 09/05/12 "When we talk about international affairs, you can be as 'Realpolitik' as you want, but you're talking about people, you're not talking about assets. You're talking about living, feeling, breathing beings."
Thought Leader: Emily Lau (Transcript) | 09/05/12 "I hope that world leaders will really sit down and think about the circumstances of those people who have been suffering for many years. Why can't we all try to sort it out and give them something better to look forward to?"
Thought Leader: Steve Coll (Transcript) | 09/05/12 "I do believe there is a global ethic. It has to do with the dignity of individuals, the right to security and liberty, both. I do believe that the human condition in its social setting is universal enough to give rise to global rights and global ethics."
Thought Leader: Ahmed Rashid (Transcript) | 09/05/12 "Violence is linked to a continued intolerance of minorities. In many countries in many parts of the world, this is something we inherited from the 20th century."
Thought Leader: Parag Khanna (Transcript) | 09/05/12 "The best global governance is local governance. It is not a punch line; it is a rule of thumb."
Thought Leader: Mary Ellen Iskenderian (Transcript) | 09/05/12 "I'm a huge believer in role models. I think that pretty much any woman who gets up and puts herself out there, whether she wants to be or not, is a role model."
Thought Leader: Grand Mufti Mustafa Ceric of Bosnia-Herzegovina (Transcript) | 09/05/12 "I would advise my dear intellectuals of this age and time and place to give us some good imagination, especially to the young people."
Thought Leader: Nobuo Tanaka (Transcript) | 09/05/12 "It is amazing that more than 2 billion people do not have access to electricity. All people equally have a right to have a very healthy and comfortable life. Access to energy, access to electricity, is a very important part of the issue that we have to tackle."
Thought Leader: Anne-Marie Slaughter (Video Clip) | 07/11/12 "There are things we can't do, even with all the power of the United States. But then we shouldn't hide from it. We shouldn't turn away and pretend that something else is happening."
Thought Leader: Ian Bremmer (Video Clip) | 06/06/12 "When we talk about international affairs, you can be as 'Realpolitik' as you want, but you're talking about people, you're not talking about assets. You're talking about living, feeling, breathing beings."
