A concept for a world free of political bullies
In an op-ed piece for the Globe and Mail, Desautels’ Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies decries what he calls our “era of bullies,” naming Trump, Putin and other strong-arm politicians as examples, and asks if we really have to put up with this.
In a word, no. Professor Mintzberg invites us to imagine a Peace Council, which would be like the UN Security Council, but made up of non-belligerent nations instead of nuclear and colonial powers — and asks what if a coalition of NGOs brought a cohesive vision of a better world to bear on the current environment of populism and fear? The piece outlines some very compelling possibilities.
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