Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership

Geopolitical dialogue shifting geopolitical power and influence over the last few decades have produced a dominantly bipolar structure around the relationship of u.s. and china. Their competing pursuits, differing ideologies, political distrust and nationalistic assertiveness, with militarism in their toolkits, pose risks. New and rising tensions threaten security, import costs, impede economic efficiencies and forego gains. Through programs of research, dialogue and policy analysis, both itself and in collaboration with carnegie endowment for international peace, the Foundation is exploring ways in which the interconnected 'rest of the world' might resist alignment that deepens distrust and fuels hostility. Shared basic interests require cultivation and collaboration, particularly at this time at which a new distribution of geopolitical power and technological capacities have seized the global agenda, seemingly placing us at somewhat of a crossroads. Approximately 100 meetings were held with approximately 300 government officials, academics and policy makers in 7 different countries the united states, russia, china, england, scotland, france and belgium.

Other programs include organizing and working in partnership with thought-leading institutions and individuals for the purpose of generating ideas, including but not limited to the ethical, economic, political and social aspects of historically high and growing numbers and increasingly protracted duration of forcibly displaced people.

Arts in societyarts do not shape geopolitical events but they help shape man, who does shape such events. The Foundation reverses the traditional question of how the artist and his/her art reflect the community and explores how art and artist, by design or organic process, affect the individuals, groups, and communities of which they are a part. The universality of artistic expression confirms its significant role. Through instruction and discussion, talented young artists are exposed to aspects beyond proficiency. An art component alongside other programming sensitizes participants to shared human interests and facilitates communication across other divides. The Foundation organizes research and dialogue to consider art in its context and in community and is planning a global conference of leading thinkers in the field for late 2022. Approximately 30 meetings were held including 79 participants in the us and austria during the course of the year.

Arts in society - arts do not shape geopolitical events - but they help shape man, who does shape such events. The Foundation reverses the traditional question of how the artist and his/her art reflect the community and explores how art and artist, by design or organic process, affect the individuals, groups, and communities of which they are a part. The universality of artistic expression confirms its significant role. Through instruction, performance and discussion, talented young artists and interested individuals are exposed to aspects of the arts beyond performance proficiency. An arts component alongside other programming sensitizes participants to shared human interests and facilitates communication across other divides. The Foundation organizes research and dialogue to consider the arts in context and in community and is planning a global conference of leading thinkers in the field for late 2024.

Relations among major powers & csis-chumir Foundation global dialogue - this project was designed to engage professionally well-informed, experienced and dispassionate dialogue among non-politicized `participants' representative of the range of interests, countries and expertise on topics generating tensions and risks that need to be reconciled. Nationalism, political dissatisfaction and distrust push inter-governmental dialogue to confrontational politicization and polarization, threatening geopolitical instability, as well as imposing material, and sometimes hidden, costs. Issues selected by the organizers, and procedures controlled by the participants, for their importance, prospects and need for greater attention and dialogue - including expert research and analysis for balanced and trusted background for the purpose. If successful, a credible, collegial and solution-oriented platform and tension-reducing principles and practices would evolve.

Technology, productivity, growth & income distribution - technologies, innovation and trade are principal contributors to prosperity and stability. in most major economies, despite important productivity gains in individual technology deployments, in more recent decades, aggregate national productivity improvement has been small and declining. At the same time, the worker-share of national income, compared to that captured by capital, has been declining for decades. `productive equity i', a study carried out by the brookings institution and the Chumir Foundation, attributed this to market conditions and policies. `productive equity ii', a new study led by the Foundation, is investigating the characteristics and roles of new technologies, market conditions such as competition and political risks, business practices, and other factors such as adaptation of legacy systems, unallocated costs and unmeasurable components - factors potentially contributing to poor overall productivity.