Towards a Global Ethics of Compromise
Résumé
We live in unprecedented times characterised by social, economic, and
ecological crises in the global perspective. To respond to these challenges, the concept
of sustainability was developed as a global blueprint for just action. The problem with
global sustainability is that we have conflicting visions of what is just and what is
sustainable. How to deal with conflicts in a fair way in situations in which consensus
is out of reach, and global action that really makes a difference (as opposed to any
action that people happen to agree on) is required? This article explores the elements
of an ethics of compromise as a solution to contemporary global challenges such as
sustainability. I argue that consensus is not a necessary condition for cooperative
action. I propose a theoretical model of fair political compromise that does not require
compromising one’s own moral values, and discusses the methods and conditions of
application in international affairs. To this end, I draw on Martin Benjamin’s notion of
integrity-preserving compromise. Such compromise can be an ethically legitimate
mode of peaceful conflict resolution in situations of rationally irreducible difference.
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