Ebook: Global Ethics for Leadership - Values and Virtues for Life

he need for global values in a globalised world is combined with the need for contextual identity. New nationalisms, protectionisms and fundamentalisms are mixed with a globalised pluralistic relativism. Are global values threatened by particular values? Find answers within the 32 articles of this book. In each of the articles the authors, who are all in one way or another linked to Globethics.net, writing from one of four continents, focus and develop on a particular value or virtue in a specific geographic, cultural or religious context. Many of them also give an input to the understanding of the value-basis of the UN-Sustainable Development Goals SDGs and give orientation for "values-driven leadership", a key vision and mission of Globethics.net.
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The thirst for ethical orientation and the call for values can be seen
and heard worldwide. In times of fast changes, unpredictable environmental
threats, economic volatility, multicultural pluralism and religious
extremism, people look for stable foundations. The need for global values
and global ethics in a globalized world is combined with the need
for contextual identity. New nationalisms, fascisms, protectionisms and
fundamentalisms are mixed with a globalized, pluralistic Google-
Facebook-Baidu-media world where anything seems to be relative. Are
global values threatened by particular values? Find answers in the articles
of this book.

Goals of this Book
This compilation of 32 articles aims at contributing to various goals:
Highlight challenges of global values and virtues in a multipolar interconnected
and divided world; show normative needs for global and contextual
values and virtues; develop in each article the content of one
value or virtue in a specific geographic, cultural or religious context;
give an input to the understanding of the value-basis of the UNSustainable
Development Goals SDGs; contribute to the interpretation
of Globethics.net’s vision, mission and values; contribute to the deeper
meaning of the new Strategy 2016-2020 of Globethics.net with its slogan
“Values-driven Leadership for Life and Sustainable Development”;
celebrate the transition in leadership (President and Executive Director)
of Globethics.net.

Values and Virtues: Four Parts of the Book

The book has four parts:
1 Balancing Global and Contextual: three articles of the editors as overview
on global ethics, values and challenges.
2 Values in Leadership: twelve articles on twelve core values from authors
from ten countries from four continents and two global collective
texts.
3 Virtues in Leadership: twelve articles on twelve core virtues from authors
from eight countries from three continents.
4 Values and Virtues by Sector: six articles on six different sectors of
society from authors from five countries from five continents.

What is the difference between values and virtues? Values are fundamental
orientations and benchmarks for individuals and institutions
such as justice and peace. They build the ethical frame for persons and
society as a whole in long term perspective. The prioritisation of values
may change during a lifespan of a biography or in a context of a society,
but the core remains constant over time. Virtues are ethical norms for
individual behaviour such as honesty or modesty. Such core virtues are
common in all cultures, religions and value-systems since they build the
basis for all human relations. But their contextual implementation and
prioritisation can differ a lot.