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The Ethics of ASEAN

his part of the book offers the reader deep dives into eight dialogues on the
important ethical issues of ASEAN: the ethics of diversity, the rise of corporate
Tethics, ethical leadership, ethics of our digital world, ethics of the future of work,
ethics of freedom, ethics of sustainability and biodiversity and the ethics of human
development.
Thanks to the AUN team of researchers and organisers we reached out to
contributors across the region and across sectors for the webinars, and they also ensured
the recording and transcription of the dialogues. As moderator for all of the dialogues,
I learned a great deal about the ethics of ASEAN by listening to 44 speakers during the
period who all contributed perspectives and insights.
These dialogues were organised over a two-year period by ECAAR and were hosted
online as 2 ½ hour webinars from January 2021 up to January 2023. Each dialogue has
from four up to nine speakers representing different perspectives and institutions from
ASEAN. Hosted by the ASEAN University Network, we systematically included students
and youth in the ethical discussions.
In this book, we summarise the presentations by the different speakers in each
dialogue. We do not provide the exchanges among speakers, which can be viewed in
the webinars but often had to be reduced due to time limitations. We believe that the
dialogues can continue in the mind of the reader with the historical perspective of how
particular issues have evolved. Or if the book is used for an education or training course,
the dialogues would naturally be those of the participants.

We have left the sequence of chapters in the order of the webinars themselves and
introduce the speakers with their titles at the time. With input from the AUN researchers,
I summarise the themes and key points made by the presenters in the form of takeaways
at the end of each chapter. I avoid adding later references, facts or perspectives to the
dialogues except in a few cases for reasons I explain.

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