Business executives, in a recent survey, rated empathy and intellectual curiosity as among the five most important skills for success in a digitized and global economy, in which many of our business partners are never in our physical presence. In order…

‘Empathy, accuracy and transnational politics’by Carolyn Pedwell, University of KentEmpathy, it would seem, has become a Euro-American political obsession.  Within contemporary liberal political imaginaries – from Obama’s p…

Join Ashoka Changemakers on June 11, 2012, from 3 to 5 p.m. ET, for a Twitter-based #SocEntChat about activating empathy in our homes, schools, and communities.   Do you have an opinion on how to encourage social and emotional development? Are you…

While empathy doesn’t come in as many varieties as are found in the cereal aisle, it is no more uniform than it is universal. Empathy is generally understood as the ability to appreciate the ideas and feelings of another, even if those ideas…