The International Beliefs and Values Institute (IBAVI) is a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization that addresses real-world issues of conflict resolution, global education, human rights, religious and cultural understanding, and sustainability through innovative and interdisciplinary scholarship, education, and service.

Our Mission

The mission of the International Beliefs and Values Institute (IBAVI) is to explore beliefs and values and how they influence actions, policies, and practices around the world. Our efforts promote conflict resolution, global education, human rights, religious and cultural understanding, and sustainability. The mission and concomitant activities of the IBAVI are deliberately pluralistic, critically-minded, and self-reflective, grounded in sound scholarship, and informed by reasoned dialogue. Working with colleagues, groups, institutions, and organizations around the world, the IBAVI addresses these issues through interdisciplinary research, education, practice, and professional exchange.