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UN PRME Working Group on Business for Peace - Professor Timothy L. Fort will present his work on 'Getting to “Us”: Nudges & Bridges for Peace at Work and Beyond'.

  • 1.  UN PRME Working Group on Business for Peace - Professor Timothy L. Fort will present his work on 'Getting to “Us”: Nudges & Bridges for Peace at Work and Beyond'.

    Posted 02-04-2022 08:22
    Please consider joining an upcoming webinar organized by the UN PRME Working Group on Business for Peace in 2022! Professor Timothy L. Fort will present his work on 'Getting to "Us": Nudges & Bridges for Peace at Work and Beyond'. Professor Fort holds the Eveleigh Professorship in Business Ethics and is Professor of Business Law & Ethics at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

    Date: Feb 9, 2022 09:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

    Description: Music, sports, movies and other cultural artifacts offer bridges for people who might otherwise disagree with each other on social and political issues. I argue that it is essential that we recover the capability of sharing bonds with those who politically differ from us even when these divides are historical and sharpened by the challenge of increasing diversity, social media (as well as network media) siloing of viewpoints, and gerrymandered political districts. There is little reason to believe that these divisions will be any less antipodal in one year or five years unless there is either (a) a common enemy that unites us or (b) a model of navigating cultural divides that can cultivate common ground.

    The same cultural artifacts have a psychophysiological impact on our cognitive orientations so that we view situations differently if our cognitive mindset is, for example, in an us vs them orientation as opposed to one that is joyful. I provide a model of mood orientation and cognitive decision-making that teaches how to create one's own nudges. More specifically, some of these nudges open the way to build bridges with others with whom we may otherwise be in conflict. That is true not only as we work together toward providing a product or service, but also through "cultural artifacts" such as music, sports, film and humor and even, yes, through our pets and our spiritual traditions, which can broaden the contexts of our relationships.

    Please register at the following link:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZModOqqqj0qHd1kkj_9u1rC1InQDQef3mOo


    All the best,

    Christina

    Dr. Christina Bache
    Research Affiliate, Queen's University 
    Chair, United Nations, Principles for Responsible Management Education, Working Group on Business for Peace
    Tel: +32 (0) 460 94 6307
    Twitter: @peacemissions