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The Responsible Leadership Collection focuses on various key aspects of leadership, as firstly, developing individual leadership understood as a typology: from charismatic leadership to responsible leadership including the description of the ethical values and rules underlying the leadership typology. Secondly, responsible leadership is understood in the framework of organisations. It has administrative and governance aspects and needs to be open to an understanding of corporate and organizational cultures, technological and information science related challenges impacting the life of the organisation, and crucial ethical holistic dimensions such as to "walk the talk". Thirdly, leadership between organisations is presented trough different sectors; the economic, the political, the education and research, faith based organizations, or the environment.
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Leadership et investissement éthique vers un avenir durable : un manuel de référenceCe manuel de référence a été préparé dans le cadre du Programme sur les biens des Églises africaines (ACAP), initié par l'Assemblée générale de la Conférence des églises de toute l'Afrique (CETA) à Kampala, en Ouganda, en 2013. L'apprentissage proposé dans le manuel par le biais d'études de cas, d'étapes à suivre et du questionnaire d'auto-évaluation a pour but de promouvoir le leadership et les pratiques éthiques au sein des Églises et des organisations liées à l'Église. Il est conçu comme un guide et une référence pour les responsables de ces organisations, offrant des idées, des stratégies et des outils pratiques pour promouvoir l'intégrité et la responsabilité dans toutes les facettes de leur rôle. Le leadership éthique dans les organisations confessionnelles repose essentiellement sur les principes de transparence, d'honnêteté, d'intégrité, d'inclusion, de responsabilité et de vertu. Les dirigeants se voient confier la responsabilité sacrée de gérer non seulement les ressources et les missions de leurs organisations, mais aussi le bien-être spirituel et la confiance de leurs communautés. En appliquant les stratégies et les principes soutenus dans ce manuel, il est possible de s'engager dans un changement transformateur, qui consiste à restaurer des pratiques éthiques de leadership et d'investissement pour une meilleure gestion des institutions. Nous vous invitons à utiliser ce manuel de référence et à le partager avec d'autres personnes.
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Ethical leadership and investment for a sustainable future : a reference manualThis Reference Manual has been prepared as a result of the African Church Assets Programme (ACAP) journey, initiated by the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) General Assembly in Kampala, Uganda in 2013. The learning made available in the Manual through case studies, actionable steps and the self-assessment questionnaire are provided with the aim to promote ethical leadership and practices within churches and church-related organizations. It is designed as a guide and reference for leaders within these organizations, offering insights, strategies, and practical tools to promote integrity and accountability in all facets of their roles. At its core, ethical leadership in faith- based organizations is rooted in the principles of transparency, honesty, integrity, inclusivity, accountability and righteousness. Leaders are entrusted with the sacred responsibility of stewarding not only the resources and missions of their organizations but also the spiritual well-being and trust of their communities. By applying the strategies and principles contained in this Manual, it is possible to engage in transformative change, which is all about restoring a culture of improved ethical leadership and investment in our institutions. Welcome, and feel encouraged to use and to share this Reference Manual with others.
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L’art de bien gouverner la république. Tome 2, Les pratiques de prise de décision et leurs effets dans les politiques publiquesCe livre rassemble les enjeux géopolitiques et géoéconomiques du réalisme politique dans le contexte africain. Pour réussir dans la vie politique, il faut un mélange de détermination, d’éthique, d’équité, de prégnance et surtout de persévérance. Il ne suffit pas d’avoir une idée claire de ce que l’on veut, encore faut-il trouver les moyens de réaliser son objectif. Pour être efficient, le réalisme lucide recommande des moyens éprouvés de survie collective. Un pays devrait se doter de dirigeants compétents et non poursuivre des utopies sans principe du bien socialement établi. Transposant les préceptes de l’éducation du dirigeant réaliste classique au contexte africain, voici toute l’entreprise de l’auteur qui peint un tableau splendide du bon leader, de sa capacité d’anticipation, de décision et de son caractère intègre. Un vrai manuel pour comprendre la notion d’équilibre des pouvoirs à l’usage du leadership politique.
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L’art de bien gouverner la république : enjeux géopolitiques et stratégies des acteurs en Afrique. Tome 1, Pensées occidentales sur l’Afrique et rôle de la géopolitique dans le développement des nations : les connaissances à maîtriser pour bien gouverner la républiqueCe livre rassemble les enjeux géopolitiques et géoéconomiques du réalisme politique dans le contexte africain. Pour réussir dans la vie politique, il faut un mélange de détermination, d’éthique, d’équité, de prégnance et surtout de persévérance. Il ne suffit pas d’avoir une idée claire de ce que l’on veut, encore faut-il trouver les moyens de réaliser son objectif. Pour être efficient, le réalisme lucide recommande des moyens éprouvés de survie collective. Un pays devrait se doter de dirigeants compétents et non poursuivre des utopies sans principe du bien socialement établi. Transposant les préceptes de l’éducation du dirigeant réaliste classique au contexte africain, voici toute l’entreprise de l’auteur qui peint un tableau splendide du bon leader, de sa capacité d’anticipation, de décision et de son caractère intègre. Un vrai manuel pour comprendre la notion d’équilibre des pouvoirs à l’usage du leadership politique.
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Audacity in growing conscientious leaders : role of frontline teams in institutional transformation as vision bearers lead from the backWe all have the potential to rise above our circumstances and attain great achievements. But that is only possible with those who are dedicated to and passionate about the work they do. It is Vision Bearers who aspire to attain ripple effect with their talents who will leave a legacy of significant impact. To this end, Vision Bearers will have the impetus and motivation to create more leaders, with less emphasis on more followers. They will seek to identify emerging, conscientious frontline teams who will have positive attitude and deep desire to serve and positively transform lives of communities. That’s also how they will attain exponential growth in the institutions they serve. It is such gallant frontline leaders with altruistic goodwill and appropriate values who will be given opportunities to enlarge their competencies through relevant training for capacity building. These are frontline teams with deep desire for a great, just and noble society, who will be expected to become the architects for a corruption-free society. The role of Vision Bearers will likewise change from routine day-to-day management functions to that of consultants, coaches, counsellors, advisors and mentors as they share their invaluable experiences and wisdom. That’s how they begin to lead from the back. With new scope of knowledge and skills emerging every other day, it’s only wise and advisable to continuously create opportunities for up-coming leaders to take the center stage. These should only be those who pass the hard test of trustworthiness. They should have passion for learning and adopting newly emerging technologies too. Soon, when the job is done, everybody will come to realise they were all along being led from the back by the ‘shepherd’. It doesn’t matter in the long run who gets the credit, as long as institutional vision and team goals are attained.
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Moral and ethical leadership, human rights and conflict resolution : African and global contextsThis book is concerned by the effectiveness of a limited number of cardinal virtues that great religions (such as Christianity) have in common with philosophical ethics, and the author uses philosophy as a practical aim for better inviting value- and reason-oriented actions. Based on the virtue of hope, the author thinks the very essence of fair conditions for education as transformative education. Deriving from the virtue of justice, we find a firm foundation for peace research and reconciliation programmes. Courage and productivity are, in a judicious manner, related to the value of work. Trust, the virtue of love and common good are matters of the management of natural and economic resources. As we discover each chapter after the other, the whole work is revealed to be grounded on a hierarchy of virtues.
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Ethische Analyse und Auslegeordnung zum Thema "Auswirkungen der Biotechnologie auf Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländer""Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts le bten einem Bericht der Food and Agriculture Organization der Vereinten Nationen zufolge weltweit rund 815 Millionen Mens chen in einem Zu- stand der Unterernährung, davon rund 777 Millionen Menschen in Entwicklungsländern (Nuffield Council on Bioethics 2003:9). Die Ursachen dafür sind vielfältig und nicht zuletzt sozialer bzw. politischer Natur. Es ist davon auszugehen, dass sich das Problem einer ausreichenden Versorgung aller Mensch en mit Nahrung in den kommenden Jahren durch das nach wie vor anhaltende Wachst um der Weltbevölkerung sowie klimatische Veränderungen aller Voraussicht nach zusätzlich weiter verschärfen wird. Vor diesem Hintergrund lautet eine der entscheide nden Fragen im Zusammenhang der Auswirkun- gen der Biotechnologie auf Entwicklungslä nder, ob und – wenn ja – in welchem Um- fang bio- und gentechnische Verfahren d azu geeignet sind, zur Bekämpfung des Hun- gers in der Welt beizutragen."
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Report of the Swiss Ethics Committee for Non-human Gene Technology"The Swiss Ethics Committee on Non-human Gene Technology (ECNH) advises the Federal Council and the secondary authorities on ethical questions associated with non-human gene technology and biotechnology, taking into consideration aspects of the dignity of creation, the safety of humans and the environment, sustainability, and the conservation of biological diversity. Since gene technological interventions in the non-human sector always have an impact on humans as well, the ECNH also includes the social and economic impact in its ethical evaluation."
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Democratic Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa"Twenty years into sub-Saharan Africa’s democratic renewal, an understanding of democratic governance has become established among political actors in the region. Democratic governance is characterised by: legitimation of governmental power through elections, legitimation of governmental politics through transparency, participation and accountability, and legitimation of governmental work through results. This conceptual understanding has asserted itself in African reality as the following paper argues: First and foremost, a far more vigorous public discourse about democratic governance can be observed, intensifying the pressure on governments to institute reforms. Despite numerous inconsistencies and weaknesses, the increased demand for democratic governance has led to ongoing improvements, at least in a group of countries in the region (manifested in fair elections, more transparency, more participation, and more domestic accountability). There are many indications that this is also reflected in improved socioeconomic outcomes. In short, democratic governance has become a reality in a number of sub-Saharan African countries and, in terms of development policies, democratic governance matters"
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Manifestations of Bad Governance on the Threshold of African Democratic Process and Development"This paper argues that there is a worldwide resurgence of interests on the concept of good governance, democracy and development. This is because everything in the world today revolves around development. The current framework of public policy imperatives that emanate from around the world suggests that effective entrenchment of democracy and good governance is a prerequisite for development. This paper examines the challenges of good democratic governance in Africa in contemporary time. This orbits around the problems of bad governance which manifests is corruption and other forms of particularistic behaviour through the noninstitutionalisation of accountability institutions and mechanisms. It argues that the absence of effective measures to counter these perennial “demons” could result in stagnation, lack of growth and development. The paper concludes that improving governance requires effective democratic process driven by ethical principles which would regulate how people make right decisions about governance"
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О новой глобальной стратегии устойчивого развития на базе партнерства цивилизации"The wave of radical transformations have swept across the world since the late 20th century, has been challenged by science not a few fundamentally new questions: what is radical transformation? what place do they occupy in the dynamics of the development of society? What are the patterns and trends of these transformations? The answers to these questions you will find in this work. Волна радикальных трансформаций захлестнувших мир с конца 20 ого века, поставила перед наукой не мало принципиально новых вопросов: что такое радикальные трансформации? какое место они занимают в динамике развития общества? Каковы закономерности и тенденции этих трансформаций? Ответы на эти вопросы вы сможете найти в данной работе."
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About a new global strategy for sustainable development based on partnership of civilizations"The wave of radical transformations have swept across the world since the late 20th century, has been challenged by science not a few fundamentally new questions: what is radical transformation? what place do they occupy in the dynamics of the development of society? What are the patterns and trends of these transformations? The answers to these questions you will find in this work. Волна радикальных трансформаций захлестнувших мир с конца 20 ого века, поставила перед наукой не мало принципиально новых вопросов: что такое радикальные трансформации? какое место они занимают в динамике развития общества? Каковы закономерности и тенденции этих трансформаций? Ответы на эти вопросы вы сможете найти в данной работе."
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Перспективы становления интегральной цивилизации"The paper studies the directions of transformation of the socio-demographic, energy-ecological, technological, economic, geopolitical, socio-cultural components of the civilizational genotype, the prospects of establishing a multipolar world order and of globalization based on partnership of civilizations. The estimation of driving forces and institutes of civilizational transformations. In the work many new approaches, original ideas and recommendations. В шестом томе многотомника «Цивилизации: теория, история, диалог, будущее» лидеры современной российской цивилизационной школы — член корреспондент РАН, директор Института экономических стратегий Б.Н. Кузык и академик РАЕН, президент Международного института Питирима Сорокина —Николая Кондратьева Ю.В. Яковец — излагают глубоко проработанную концепцию трансформации преобладавшей в течение двух веков индустриальной мировой цивилизации в постиндустриальную, интегральную цивилизацию одновременно со становлением пятого поколения локальных цивилизаций и третьего исторического суперцикла в динамике глобальной цивилизации."
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Responsible leadership in action : the value of values : Global Ethics Forum 2015 reportHow to be a responsible leader in the context of the world crises today? This was the guiding question of the 6th edition of the Global Ethics Forum (GEF), that took place in Geneva, Switzerland, from 25-27 June 2015. The GEF 2015, a cross-sectoral and multinational gathering, provided an ideal multidimensional platform of discussion for this topic, witnessing lots of cross - fertilization. Next to reflecting the state and need for responsible leadership in the different sectors and regions, the Forum emphasized the exploration of solutions for both general and issue- or sector-specific challenges. These include projects for codes of ethics implementation, for improved access to jobs, enhanced responsible investment, values-driven education, responsible resource management and many more. This report presents a summary of the entire conference including recommendations and projects for action. The GEF Conferences, organized by globethics.net, represent the moments of refueling of an ongoing, dynamic process to create a values-based world, society and economy. They are the joint effort of a global family of values-driven individuals and institutions.
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Helpdesk Research Report: Approaches to civic education in Africa"Civic education (CE) also referred to citizen or democratic education, can be broadly defined as ‘the provision of information and learning experiences to equip and empower citizens to participate in democratic processes. The education can take very different forms, including classroom-based learning, informal training, experiential learning, and mass media campaigns. Civic education can be targeted at children or adults, at the local, national or international level. As such, it is an approach that employs a range of different methods, and is often used in combination with other participatory governance tools (Rietbergen-McCracken, n.d.).
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Electoral politics and election outcomes in Kenya"Kenya has held presidential, parliamentary and local government elections every five years since independence in 1963 in accordance with the country’s constitution. For most of the independence period the country operated a one party system of government. This was brought to an end in 1992 when the country reverted to multiparty democracy following an amendment to the relevant section of the presidential and National Assembly Elections Act. The change from one party to multi party system affected both the administration and legal environments in which elections occurred. Other factors that affected elections include ethnicity, clanism, nature of political parties, personality of individual politicians and in some cases religion. Voter turn out has been particularly high during multi party era and particularly more during the elections of 2002. This was due to two factors. First was the opposition unity prior to the elections and secondly the fact that Kenyans had the opportunity to elect a new president after 24 years of rule by President Moi. Moi had served his last term in accordance with the changes made to the relevant provisions of the presidential Elections Act in 1992, which for the first time limited presidential term to two five-year terms. Future elections are likely to be influenced by similar complex factors discussed in this paper.
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Democracy, elections and political parties: A conceptual overview with special emphasis on AfricaFew concepts are more central to the modern state and at the same time difficult to define than the concepts of democracy, elections and political parties. This paper, based on books, book chapters, journal articles and research papers, will nonetheless try to defy the odds and explain these concepts as clearly as possible and in the context of Africa.
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EC methodogical guide on electoral assistanceDemocratisation, promotion of human rights and good governance are at the core of the European Union’s identity and constitute key objectives of its foreign and security policy. They are not only a moral imperative but they are also the best guarantors for stability and prosperity, which brings dividends to the international community as a whole, in terms of trade, security, cultural and human exchange. By supporting the electoral process, the EU is able to project its identity abroad and support respect for human rights and democratic values, as enshrined in the Treaties. The EU is one of the leading actors in terms of electoral assistance and election observation worldwide. The position of the European Commission as one of the key international donors in terms of electoral assistance has strengthened in the course of the last six years. From the adoption in 2000 of the EC Communication on Election Assistance and Observation until 2005, a significant increase in the volume of funding and in the complexity of the electoral assistance operations has been registered.
