2025 International Summit at the Global Observatory for Genome Editing
RSV enjoyed attending the 2025 International Summit at the Global Observatory for Genome Editing in May 2025.
The Summit called for the creation of the Charter on Emerging Technologies and Human Dignity, which is meant to “engage diverse conversation partners: from law, religion, humanitarian social movements, and diverse cultural and intellectual traditions, in addition to scientific, medical, scholarly, private sector, and policy expertise. These conversations… include a wide range of human experience, facilitate mutual understanding, and cultivate a spirit of humility. Moving beyond national geographies and framings, the process would identify shared, cross-border forms of reason and purpose while acknowledging and respecting cross-cultural differences.”
The Summit endorsed four principles to guide the development of such a Charter:
Principle 1: Begin with questions of human dignity and the common good.
Principle 2: Reconsider current innovation systems and the consequences for the distribution of benefits and risks.
Principle 3: Expand the range of questions for deliberation.
Principle 4: Reimagine the limits of research.
You can read the full Charter call and view all sessions from the summit at no cost here: https://global-observatory.org/node/1195