Workshop Description: The world we live in is interconnected and interdependent as never before. While that interconnectedness has forged us into a single organism it has also made us prone to systemic risks like climate change, a global energy crisis, a global food crisis, a global economic recession, and the threat of global war  (especially a nuclear one) to name but a few. Our crises demand collective solutions and yet we are lacking the very institutions, policies, principles, and processes to get us there. Before we do anything else the community of nations needs to identify a set of organizing principles — a set of global ethics — that we can agree upon and proceed to apply methodically to craft solutions to our global challenges. In addition, these principles need to be woven into and firmly embedded in new institutions that we build that are fit to serve the needs of humanity at this new stage in its development. In this first workshop we will explore this key idea of a set of global ethics: why we need them, what we mean by them, identifying a few key ones and tangibly demonstrating how their methodical application can take us a long way to resolving our global challenges.