Karlshochschule International University

The aim of the article is to explore how the critical exercise of decolonizing approaches can inform peace education. The methodology will be an auto-ethnographic action-based research that explores literature on decolonizing peace education and applies its principles to the analysis of a nonformal arts-based project. The experiences gained through work in a music-based peace education project called La Escuela Encantada (LEE), serve as a link to practice, which will be nourished by theory and vice versa. The structure of this article is as follows: Starting from Martínez-Guzmán’s foundations of an epistemological turn for social sciences from philosophy for peace(s) as a basis, the decolonizing project within peace education will be unfolded to elicit the potential of nonformal arts-based peace education to inform concrete decolonial projects in the peace education sector. The main findings show that LEE contributes to decolonizing peace education by promoting emotional transformation, (re-)enchantment, and connectedness while engaging in process-oriented decolonial reflexivity.

The sustainable development goals (SDGs) constitute an ambitious comprehensive global framework including monitoring mechanisms and indicators to evaluate progress towards precise targets of sustainable development. Most European countries have adapted their national sustainability indicator systems to conform to the UN Agenda 2030 for sustainable development, introducing new indicators and monitoring frameworks and governance processes in which these are embedded. What do we know about the political processes and struggles of implementing this important global framework? How does the politics of indicators differ in national contexts? We propose a classification of national indicator systems along dimensions of indicator selection, appraisal landscape, participatory nature, and political communication. We empirically explore these dimensions for four European national sustainability indicator systems through a comparative analysis based on national policy documents, indicator databases, and web portals as well as inputs from workshops and expert interviews. Given the considerable variation with respect to the trajectory of national sustainability indicator systems, we posit that these differences correspond to different national interpretations of sustainability.

No longer limited to the factory hall, automation and digitization increasingly change, complement, and replace the human workplace also in the sphere of knowledge work. Technology offers the possibility of creating economically rational, autonomously acting software—the machina economica. This complements human beings who are far from being a rational homo economicus and whose behavior is biased and prone to errors. This includes behaviors that lack responsibility and sustainability. Insights from behavioral economics suggest that in the modern workplace, humans who team up with a variety of digital assistants can improve their decision-making to achieve more corporate social responsibility. Equipped with artificial intelligence (AI), machina economica can nudge human behavior to arrive at more desirable outcomes. Following the idea of augmented human-centered management (AHCM), this chapter outlines underlying mechanisms, opportunities, and threats of AI-based digital nudging.

The essay will outline possibilities for be(com)ing other-Wise convivial, interbetween. To this end, relational possibilities for embodied enlivening are described as queering practice for moving from Anthropocene toward sustainable futures. Based on exploring certain qualities of be(com)ing queer some perspectives on queer futures are discussed. Related to Merleau-Ponty’s eco-phenomenology the paper then opens up possibilities for an embodied, convivial relation with nature (“con-naturality”) and social life (“con-sociability”). Finally, queering the type of the Anthropos, provides pathways for “anthropo-decentric” transformations toward a convivial future as an “ecocene.”

The flow experience can be an important precursor to high levels of creativity and innovation. Prior work has identified and conceptualized the key elements of the flow experience in cocreative activities as individual flow corridor, individual flow feeling, and group flow. Surprisingly, the flow experience is underrepresented in theory and practice of design thinking. In this empirical study, the flow experience at the individual and group level was investigated in a 1-day design thinking exercise. The findings from partial least squares (PLS) modeling of 230 observations confirm previously untested conjectures that (a) the elements of individual and group flow experience were prevalent and highly correlated in the design thinking activities and (b) the nature of the design thinking task had an impact on the flow experience. Finally, results confirm that Lego Serious Play skills-building as a creative warm-up had a positive effect on 2 of the 3 flow experience elements: individual flow feeling and individual flow corridor.

Blaming the World Health Organization (who) for its failures in the Ebola crisis was a common reaction of the media. However, exclusively denouncing the who for the spread of Ebola falls short as it does not recognize the structural deficits of those recent governance procedures financing global health that lead to a chronic underfunding of the who. Against this background, the article reflects perspectives of a democratic reform of global health funding. It concludes that only the who can provide a leadership on global health matters, but to do so it depends on states willing to rebuild the who’s capacities to act. To address the global health crisis properly, the revitalization of who’s constitutional mandate is critically necessary. The discussion is based on normative legal theory, which argues that processes of globalization have transformed international law into a global rule of law, placing specific duties on states and international institutions.

Um den Erfolg eines Unternehmens nachhaltig zu sichern, kommt der Fuhrung von Personal durch die Fuhrungskraft eine bedeutsame Rolle zu. Das Phanomen Fuhrung wird dabei seit jeher sowohl auf praktischer als auch auf wissenschaftlicher Ebene zu beleuchten versucht, um die relevanten Faktoren fur Fuhrungserfolg zu ermitteln. Im Folgenden wird daher die Thematik Personalfuhrung kurzgefasst betrachtet, indem eine Begriffsbestimmung und Abgrenzung erfolgt und der Personalfuhrungsprozess einschlieslich der beinhalteten Elemente aufgefuhrt wird.

This paper presents a phenomenology of affect and discusses its relevance for organizational life-worlds. With Merleau-Ponty, affects are interpreted as bodily and embodied inter-relational phenomena, which have specific pathic, ecstatic and emotional qualities. Relationally, they will be situated as “inter-affection” that are part of the inter-corporeality of the “Flesh” of wild be(com)ing. Affect and inter-affectivity are then related to organizational life-worlds, through a critical exploration of different phenomena and effects generated by positive, negative and ambiguous dimensions. Finally, the potentials of affects and affection as part of the nexus of an embodied responsive responsibility and sustainability are discussed and critical perspectives on affective becoming outlined.