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R esponsible l eadeRship Global and Contextual Ethical Perspectives Editors Christoph Stückelberger / Jesse N.K. Mugambi Responsible Leadership Global and Contextual Ethical Perspectives Responsible Leadership Global and Contextual Ethical Perspectives Editors Christoph Stückelberger / J. N. K. Mugambi Globethics.net Series No. 1 Cover design: Juan Pablo Cisneros ©2007 Globethics.net 150 route de Ferney 1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland Web: http://www.globethics.net Published by WCC Publications 150 route de Ferney, P.O. Box 2100 1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland Web: http://www.wcc-coe.org ISBN 978-2-8254-1516-0 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means - electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other - without the prior written permission of the publishers. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews. Printed in France v CONTENTS Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Christoph Stückelberger/ J.N.K. Mugambi 1 Stewards and ‘Careholders’. A Christian Ethical Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Christoph Stückelberger, Switzerland 2 Engendering Leadership. A Christian Feminist Perspective from India . . . . . . . . . 13 Evangeline Anderson-Rajkumar, India PART I: RESPONSIBLE FAMILY LEADERSHIP 3 Family LeadershipShift in China. Preliminary Perspectives for a Confucian and Christian Dialogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Rachel Xiaohong Zhu, China 4 Responsible Family Leadership. Traditional and Christian Approaches in Cameroon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Richard Ondji’i Toung, Cameroon 5 WomenLeadership in theKoreanSalimistConcept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Un Hey Kim, South Korea 6 Leadership in EthicalFamilies. A North American Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Christopher Lind, Canada vi 7 FamilyLeadership inAfrica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Muteho Kasongo, Democratic Republic of Congo 8 MarriageResponsibilities. An OrthodoxView from the MiddleEast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Sleiman Gebran, Lebanon 9 Responsible Leadership in Education and Development. An African Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 J.N.K. Mugambi, Kenya 10 HolisticLeadershipin Education. AnAfrican Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Emmanuel Asante, Ghana PART II: RESPONSIBLE RELIGIOUS LEADERSHIP 11 Parish Leadership. A Protestant Minority Perspective from Eastern Europe/Romania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Árpád Ferencz, Romania 12 Theological Leadership in Christian-Muslim Encounters. An Indonesian Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Yahya Wijaya, Indonesia/Hong Kong 13 ReligiousLeadership of a MajorityChurch. TheCase of the OrthodoxChurch ofGreece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Nikos Dimitriadis, Greece vii 14 GenderResponsibility in Religious Leadership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Heike Walz, Germany/Argentina 15 WomenChurchLeaders inProtestantChurches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Hella Hoppe/Anne Walder, Switzerland 16 Theology and Pluralistic Ethics. An IndonesianMuslimPerspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Muhammad Machasin, Indonesia 17 ChurchLeadershipis Challenged. A Perspectiveon Christian and African Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Samuel M. Kobia, Kenya/Switzerland 18 CorruptionandIntegrity. ACall to Churches in Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Margaret Chen, Malaysia 19 FightingCorruption in and by Churches. AnImportantTask of ChurchLeaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Christoph Stückelberger, Switzerland 20 Code of LeadershipAdopted by the National Council of Churches in India, 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 21 African Church Leadership. Between Christ, Cultures and Conflicts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 J.N.K Mugambi, Kenya viii 22 ReligiousStatistics inRussia. AChallenge for ReligiousLeadership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Roman Silantyev, Russia PART III: RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS LEADERSHIP 23 BusinessLeadership and Sustainable Development. APerspective of Corporate Social Responsibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Jeffrey D. Sachs, USA 24 CanBusinessEthics beInterreligious? AnIndonesianPerspective . . . . . . . . 222 Yahya Wijaya, Indonesia 25 Business Responsibility. An American Christian Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 Heidi Hadsell, USA 26 Business Leadershipand Social Responsibility in a Transition Country. ARussian Orthodox Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Pavel Shashkin, Russia 27 TheRussian OrthodoxChurch andEconomicEthics. Efforts at the Turn of the Millenium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 Pavel Shashkin, Russia 28 Code of Moral Principles and Rules of Economic Activity Adopted by the 8th World Russian Peoples’s Council in Moscow, 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246 ix 29 Strengthening the Common Good. TheResponsibility ofStates, Investors andInternationalOrganisations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 Richard Ondji’i Toung, Cameroon PART IV: RESPONSIBLE POLITICAL LEADERSHIP 30 Responsible Political Leadership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Jephthah K. Gathaka, Kenya 31 Politics of Responsibilityand Responsibilityof Politics. A Perspective of Political Ethicson Presidential Election in the USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 Heidi Hadsell, USA 32 PoliticalLeadershipinLatin America. A ChristianPerspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 Paulo Fernando Carneiro de Andrade, Brazil 33 Reaffirming Life. PoliticalLeadership inDefence ofHumanity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290 Wim Dierckxsens, The Netherlands/Costa Rica 34 CongoleseLeadersFace Genetically ModifiedOrganisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 Afumba Wandja, Democratic Republic of Congo 35 Responsible Politics inAfricaand South Africa. A FeministPerspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304 Puleng Lenka Bula, South Africa 36 Leadership, MoralValues and Democracy. A Glimpse from Latin America . . . . . . 315 Guillermo Hansen, Argentina