Major purposes and focus areas
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The Center for Global Ethics & Politics aims to develop new insight, through research and publications, on matters of international concern including:
- issues of globalization and ethics—that is, ethical questions and dilemmas, whether for individuals or societies—that arise in view of economic, technological, legal, political, social and cultural globalization
- intercultural perspectives to ethics—that is, interpretations of ethical doctrines and core ideas based on new dialogue between diverse cultural perspectives
- the possibilities of arriving at cosmopolitan or more global ethical perspectives on such important themes as human rights and democracy
Beyond the consideration of these normative issues, the Center considers various approaches to increasing democratic participation in the institutions of global governance and fulfilling human rights more globally. It also pursues research on initiatives to improve global political responsiveness and transnational representation.