Caux Round Table for Moral Capitalism
We make the case for Moral Capitalism.
Here’s the April edition of Pegasus.
In this issue, we include 2 articles on friendship and selections from the social teachings of the Russian Orthodox Church as it seeks to shape Russian national identity.
I would be most interested in your thoughts and feedback.
The Minnesota Department of Human Rights has concluded that the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) has, for years, unfairly policed the city’s African American community. The department’s report, however, had few recommendations for solving the problem. In the main, the report looked to a new inspectorate to supervise policing through the review of complaints.
The Caux Round Table for Moral Capitalism has proposed a solution: integrate the police with the community around aptitudes and skills in service. In short, to hire police for character first and then train them for competence.
The Caux Round Table also advocates certain principles for moral government. The foundational principle, supported by many wisdom traditions, is that public office is a public trust. That standard obligates police to be fiduciary trustees for our well-being and prosperity – for the well-being and prosperity of every citizen. Trustees should always strive to be persons of high and noble character.
This vision of just policing is not new. It was first proposed in 1829 by Sir Robert Peel when he created the first modern police force – the London Metropolitan Police.
Now, happily, the department’s report endorses both the Caux Round Table’s solution and the Peel Principles for community policing. The report says “Second, MPD must move quickly to improve the quality of its trainings. At its root, policing is a public service. Trainings for new officer hires and veteran officers, therefore, should significantly shift in tone from a paramilitary approach to a public service approach.”
Sir Robert insisted that community policing was to “prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force …” He, therefore, proposed that “the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.”
We believe that in 2022, the State of Minnesota has an opportunity to take the best of Peel’s Principles and integrate them with what is now known regarding community/police shared values and character-based peace officer selection. Minnesota could lead the nation in establishing a new model of policing (i.e., a Minnesota Model). This new model could be codified and utilized to positively influence all future public safety initiatives, resulting in increased procedural justice, mutual trust, cooperation and safety for all.
To give public support to this best practice of community policing, we are presenting this Friday at 8:30 am at Landmark Center our Dayton Awards to the retiring chiefs of police in Minneapolis and St. Paul for their personal commitment to policing as a public trust.
Please join us as we recognize chiefs Medaria Arradondo and Todd Axtell by registering here.
The event is free and will last about an hour.
Here’s the March edition of Pegasus.
In this issue, we include articles on a civic business and the elusive democratic mind, as well as 2 short commentaries from readers.
I would be most interested in your thoughts and feedback.
Here’s the January issue of Pegasus.
In this edition, we include an open letter to educators and our 2021 Year in Review (annual report).
I would be most interested in your thoughts and feedback.
As we recently announced, we’ve added a new letters to the editor section to our monthly newsletter, Pegasus.
Please submit for consideration letters on subjects that are of interest to you, but also relevant to our work.
You can simply respond to this email with your letter or email them to jed@cauxroundtable.net.
The Caux Round Table is now on Substack!
We posted our first article, “Capital: A Basic Human Right?,” earlier this week.
Please forward this information to your friends and colleagues.
We’ll be posting frequently.
Here is the December edition of Pegasus.
In this issue, we include articles on the moral sense of first graders and what we owe our fellow human beings.
We’ve also added a new section, letters to the editor.
I would be most interested in your thoughts and feedback.
Happy New Year!
In partnership with the Initiatives of Change Business and Economy Program, we are planning on a Global Dialogue at Mountain House in Caux, Switzerland, for July 30 and 31, 2022. Most participants have, in the past, arrived on Friday before the meeting and then leave the following Monday.
If you have never been to Mountain House, travel is quite easy. At the Geneva Airport, (or train station if you arrive by train) you buy a train ticket for Caux and then catch a train for Montreux. The trip is about an hour, as I remember, or less. Once at the Montreux station, you walk via an underpass to another platform to catch a cog wheeled train up the mountainside to Caux, a small hamlet. Then, you walk 2 minutes to Mountain House.
Alternatively, the drive from Geneva to Caux is easy and well-marked.
Mountain House has been the setting for many sessions on reconciliation since opening as a conference center after WWII. The first sessions brought former enemies from France and Germany together and laid a moral foundation for the European Union. In 1986, Mountain House welcomed business leaders from Japan, Europe and the U.S. to confront and rise above trade rivalries in the first gathering of the Caux Round Table.
Today, as we shift from one era – the post-WWII order seeking international comity and peaceful idealism – to something, as yet, undefined, but, perhaps, a return to the realpolitik of nation state willful self-assertion and geo-political rivalries among economies and cultures – dialogue and reconciliation is still most needed.
Please join us to make your personal contribution to the legacy of Mountain House. You may find the proposed agenda for the Global Dialogue here.
We will confirm the agenda, conference fee and accommodation costs later.
Please do save the date.
As we approach Christmas, please consider purchasing one or more of our books as gifts.
They include:
–Integrity in Business and Society (by Klaus Leisinger)
–The Art of Leading (by Klaus Leisinger)
Here’s the November issue of Pegasus.
This edition is all about truth.
I would be most interested in your thoughts and feedback.