The Three Peace Circle® Reflections – What AI Revealed About Purpose, Responsibility and Power

In my previous reflection, “The Missing E in ESG – AI as a Mirror for Ethics and Empathy,” I wrote that what our societies need are not smarter metrics but wiser mirrors. This new piece turns that mirror toward practice — testing whether the Peace Circle® framework, supported by AI, can reveal how values truly live within our institutions and decisions.

I proposed that the Peace Circle® Index could complement existing ESG frameworks by adding the missing human dimension: Ethics and Empathy. Where ESG measures the footprint, Peace Circle® reveals the soulprint.

This reflection grows from more than 25 years in global education – a journey that led me to design the Peace Circle® as a living mirror between values and action. The same idea that once took physical form as a symbolic park has now evolved into an analytical model: testing whether AI can reveal how ethical balance appears in the language of real organisations.

To test this method, I examined three contrasting organisations: a Finnish flagship company, a national public institution, and a global energy corporation. All three speak the language of responsibility and sustainability — yet each embodies it in a distinct way.

The analysis followed a structured three-mirror process grounded in the Peace Circle® model (Heart – Head – Hands): 1️⃣ Front Mirror – a positive reflection focusing on purpose and strengths. 2️⃣ Side Mirror – a neutral mapping of structure and balance. 3️⃣ Rear Mirror – a critical view revealing gaps and contradictions.

Three Ethical Reflections – From Heart, Head and Hands Each mirror corresponds to one of the three human dimensions at the core of the Peace Circle® Index:

Dimension	Core Values	Analytical Focus
🔴 Heart	Hope, Compassion, Justice	Purpose & Values
🔵 Head	Knowledge, Science, Wisdom	Structure & Knowledge
🟢 Hands	Protection of Life, Balance, Diversity	Action & Courage

The reflections were based exclusively on publicly available materials — annual and sustainability reports, leadership statements, and official strategy or values pages. Each set of sources was prompted into Google Gemini 2.5, following the same analytical structure to ensure comparability. Afterward, I conducted a synthesis for each organisation — and a final calibration using ChatGPT-5, refining tone, coherence, and balance across all cases. The result is a consistent three-layer reflection that bridges AI analysis with human interpretation — a prototype for the emerging Peace Circle® Index, designed to explore ethical coherence across sectors.

🔴 1. A Finnish flagship company

A clear pattern emerged: long-term responsibility was deeply embedded in strategy — yet the strongest motivational forces still revolved around financial performance. The structure was ethically sound, but the gravity of economic logic kept pulling the system toward measurable profit. Even when values, understanding, and action aligned, balance proved to be not an ideal to achieve once, but a discipline to sustain. To illustrate this dynamic, the Rear Mirror offered a quiet but revealing example.

An AI-based word analysis of the 2024 Annual Report and Responsibility Review showed that economic terms such as “growth,” “performance,” and “value creation” appeared a total of 117 times, while ethical vocabulary — including “justice” and “fairness” — appeared only five.

Meanwhile, the term “responsibility” dominated with 84 mentions, framing ethics mainly through compliance and accountability rather than deeper social or moral reflection. The mirror did not judge — it simply showed how economic gravity shapes the visible narrative, even in organisations genuinely committed to sustainability.

🔵 2. A national public institution

A paradox appeared — leadership carried moral responsibility without full control. Protecting the environment depended on cooperation, consensus, and the willingness of others to act. It showed that strong values alone are not enough; their endurance requires law, dialogue, and courage amid shifting politics.

🟢 3. A global energy company

The reflection exposed the dilemma of progress built on contradiction — the same engines that powered prosperity must now power restraint. Real change, it suggested, demands not only innovation and discipline, but a redefinition of what we count as success.

Shared Insight – The Common Pattern

Together, the three Peace Circle® Reflections reveal a shared human pattern: the search for balance between purpose, responsibility, and power. Across sectors and scales, they show that peace in action begins where values, knowledge, and courage meet —and where alignment between the Heart, Head, and Hands is not a static achievement but a living discipline.

Because these values are universal, the same framework revealed coherence and tension across all sectors — corporate, public, and global — in remarkably similar ways.

Closing Thought

What began as an analytical exercise evolved into a mirror of humanity itself. Whether in business, government, or the global economy, the same question remains: Can we act with coherence — and keep the Heart, Head, and Hands in harmony — when the systems around us reward imbalance? The Peace Circle® framework offers not an answer, but a path: to see clearly, act wisely, and renew balance again and again.

The reflections also confirmed the regenerative logic at the heart of the Peace Circle®: when courageous action renews hope, understanding deepens — and peace becomes a living cycle rather than a static state.

Next Reflection

In the next phase, I will turn the same reflective lens toward schools, municipalities, and communities — places where values meet everyday decisions. The goal is to explore whether the Peace Circle® framework can help local actors see coherence as clearly as corporations do — and perhaps even more authentically.

💡 Part of the Peace Circle® Index pilot — exploring values, structure, and coherence across sectors.