The various crises we are facing today - financial, economic, social, human rights, and environmental - cannot be tackled using mechanisms or institutions that allowed these crises to occur. We need a new set of values and new guiding principles that work for all of us.

The recent democratisation of interactive communication technologies has made vital and useful information available to the public worldwide, knowledge that gives us the potential to create a life-centered, egalitarian, sustainable and peaceful world community based on democratic principles of partnership. The Center believes that peace is not merely the absence of armed conflict; but that it is the presence of liberty, equality and solidarity.

A world in balance is a world where the economy serves the public interest, where people respect and care for each other and live in accordance with the natural environment.

The Center expresses this understanding in detail, and offers supporting documentation in easy-to-read electronic format to citizens worldwide.