The Center for a World in Balance is an open global cooperative platform that focuses on key interconnected problem areas our world faces and develops a common and coherent answer to these problems. 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 world community based on democratic principles of partnership.

A Simple and Profound MessageA 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 documents people's initiatives to create a world in balance, among them international agreements, philosophical reflections and documentary films. It aims to empower the public to think critically and to move beyond ignorance, malpractice and deception and into the realm of understanding, equality and respect.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. We are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. Peace is not merely the absence of armed conflict; it is the presence of liberty, equality and solidarity. Thankfully, people all around the world are at this very moment waking up to a more integrated approach to stability and well-being. The Center expresses this understanding in detail, and offers supporting documentation in easy-to-read electronic format.

The Center is a not-for-profit foundation registered at the Chamber of Commerce in The Netherlands.

Principles of Understanding of the Center for a World in Balance