Building a Global Network for Sustainable Responsibility – the Lucerne Summer University: Ethics in a Global Context LSUE

The next Lucerne Summer University: Ethics in a Global Context LSUE under the patronage of UNESCO takes place from 1 - 6 June, 2023.

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Who is responsible for climate protection? What can be done against global inequality and poverty? How can global justice be connected with local traditions, cultural diversity and religious values? How can human rights be ethically justified as universal norms? What ethical chances and risks arise from the digital transformation and the growing use of artificial intelligence?

"The Lucerne Summer University: Ethics in a Global Context LSUE" under the patronage of the UNESCO enables young scientists and researchers to examine ethical questions of today and tomorrow – beyond the boundaries of academic fields, cultures and religion – and to search together for solutions in a global context.

This practical and action-oriented dialog is ideal to nurture a constantly expanding, international network of committed decision makers who exchange knowledge, advise each other and work together. The guiding principle of this endeavor is "Know how, act now". Flyer LSUE Project

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The faculty of the “Lucerne Summer University: Ethics in a Global Context LSUE” is both interdisciplinary and international. It follows a hands-on approach and brings together experts from international organizations, science and research, business, arts, and interfaith and intercultural dialog:

2022

Angela Melo, Director of Policies and Programmes in the Social and Human Sciences Sector of UNESCO and Maksim Kariliuk, Programme Specialist from the Bioethics and Ethics of Science Section of UNESCO

Shams Asadi, Member of the Advisory Board of the Human Rights Cities Network

Prof. Dr. Surya Deva, Professor at Macquarie Law School, University of Macquarie, Sydney; Vice-Chair of the UN Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises

Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli, Founder of LEAP (Leadership, Effectiveness, Accountability, Professionalism) Africa and Sahel Consulting Agriculture and Nutrition Limited

Prof. Dr. Katharina Pistor, Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia University

Dr. Johnny Ryan, FRHistS (Fellow of the Royal Historical Society), Senior Fellow at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, and a Senior Fellow at the Open Markets Institute

Prof. Sonia Seneviratne, Professor for Land-Climate Dynamics at ETH Zurich, Lead Author of the IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C global warming (2017-2018) and Coordinating Lead Author of the 6th assessment report of the IPCC (2018-2021)

Valeriia Voshchevska, Head of Digital at Amnesty International

Dr. Ernst von Kimakowitz, Senior Research Fellow and Post-Doc (Lucerne Graduate School in Ethics LGSE) at the Institute of Social Ethics ISE, University of Lucerne, Switzerland

Prof. Dr. Peter G. Kirchschlaeger, Director of the Lucerne Summer University: Ethics in a Global Context LSUE; Director of the Institute of Social Ethics ISE and Full Professor of Theological Ethics, University of Lucerne, Switzerland

2021

Ai Weiwei, Artist

Precious Oghale Diagboya, LSUE Alumna 2018 and PhD candidate at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

Prof. Gunoo Kim, Professor of Law, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea

Prof. Dr. Arne Manzeschke, President of the European Research Society for Ethics Societas Ethica; Professor of Anthropology and Ethics for Health Professions, Evangelische Hochschule Nürnberg, Germany

Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC

Mona Mijthab, Founder of MOSAN; Lecturer for Strategic Design, ZHAW, Switzerland

Akaliza Keza Ntwari, Entrepreneur from Rwanda in the field of technology; one of the founders of "Girls in ICT Rwanda"; member of the UN High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation

Leoluca Orlando, Mayor of Palermo, Italy

Katiúscia Ribeiro, Researcher and university lecturer of African Philosophy and Ethics, Women's Thoughts and Community Relations, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Prof. Dr. Peter G. Kirchschlaeger, Director of the Lucerne Summer University: Ethics in a Global Context LSUE; Director of the Institute of Social Ethics ISE and Full Professor of Theological Ethics, University of Lucerne, Switzerland

2020 (due to the covid 19 pandemic, the LSUE 2020 had to be postponed to 2021)

2019

Prof. Dr. Christine Abbt, Chair for Political Philosophy, University of Lucerne, Switzerland

Alessio Allegrini, Conductor, Hornist and Founder of Musicians for Human Rights

Nnimmo Bassey, Environmental activist; Winner of the Right Livelihood Award

Prof. Dr. Boudewijn de Bruin, Professor of Financial Ethics, University of Groningen, Netherlands

Prof. Dr. Martina Caroni, Vice Rector and Tenured professor of International, Constitutional and Comparative Law, University of Lucerne, Switzerland

Thomas Coombes, Head of Brand & Deputy Director, Communications, Amnesty International

Julian Fifer, Artist Manager and Producer of Musicians for Human Rights

Prof. Dr. Charles Foster, Professor of Law, University of Oxford, UK

Prof. Dr. Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Hemel, Director of the “Weltethos” Institute, University of Tuebingen; Professor of Religious Education Theory, University of Regensburg, Germany

Cilia Kanellopoulos, Head of Social Innovation of the Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications & Katherine Prescott, Co-Founder of Free-D

Dr. Stephan Rothlin SJ, Director of the Macau Ricci Institute; Founder & CEO of Rothlin International CSR Management Consulting, Beijing & Hong Kong

Prof. Dr. Robert Vorholt, Dean of the Faculty of Theology, University of Lucerne, Switzerland

Ani Zonneveld, Founder and President of Muslims for Progressive Values; founding member of Alliance of Inclusive Muslims

Prof. Dr. Peter G. Kirchschlaeger, Director of the Lucerne Summer University: Ethics in a Global Context LSUE; Director of the Institute of Social Ethics ISE and Full Professor of Theological Ethics, University of Lucerne, Switzerland

2018

Rabbi Jehoschua Ahrens, Co-Initiator of the Orthodox Rabbinic Statement on Christianity; SNSF PhD student, University of Lucerne, Switzerland

Prof. Dr. Rana Alsoufi, Assistant professor for Islamic Theology, University of Lucerne, Switzerland

Jakob Brossmann, Director of the multi-award-winning film “Lampedusa in Winter”

Samia Haimoura, Founder and CEO of SEON

Prof. Dr. Jennifer Herdt, Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics; Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Yale University Divinity School, USA

Cilia Kanellopoulos, Head of Social Innvoation of the Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications

Prof. Dr. Adrian Loretan, Chair of Canon Law and Law-and-Religion; Co-Director of the Center of Comparative Constitutional Law and Religion, University of Lucerne, Switzerland

Jan Miotti, Head Communications and Projects & Joel Dickenmann, Co-Director of Water for Water WfW

Stephan Mueller, Manager of the Faculty of Theology, University of Lucerne, Switzerland

Fatima Mukaddam, Ph.D. Candidate at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland

Prof. Dr. Manfred Nowak, Former UN-Special Rapporteur on Torture; Founder of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights; Professor of International Law and Human Rights, University of Vienna, Austria

Prof. Dr. Laura Palazzani, Member of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee; Member of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies of the EU Commission; Professor of Philosophy of Law and Biolaw, Lumsa University in Rome, Italy

Rob van Riet, Director of the Climate Energy Program at the World Future Council, London, UK; former Coordinator of the WFC's Disarmament Program

Stefania Schenk Vitale, Assistant Director and Translator of the multi-award-winning film “Lampedusa in Winter”

Prof. Dr. Jeffrey D. Sachs, Former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General António Guterres on the objectives of sustainable development; Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network; Economist and director of the Earth Institute, Columbia University, USA

Martina Tollkühn, scientific Assistant at the Chair of Canon Law and State-Church Law, University of Lucerne, Switzerland

Prof. Dr. Florian Wettstein, Vice-President of the International Society of Business, Economics, and Ethics (ISBEE); Editor-in-Chief of the Business and Human Rights Journal (BHRJ); director of the Institute of Business Ethics at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland

Prof. Dr. Peter G. Kirchschlaeger, Director of the Lucerne Summer University: Ethics in a Global Context LSUE; Director of the Institute of Social Ethics ISE and Full Professor of Theological Ethics, University of Lucerne, Switzerland