belief, spirituality, and science
Deals with creating a more authentic and realistic spirituality for the 21st century. Topics include the commonality of religious experience, an emphasis on life as opposed to afterlife, the integration of science and religion, and the relationship between music, art, drugs, and spirituality.
cross-cultural cooperation
Explores the contradictions of the nation-state model. It deals with inter/supra-national law, globalization, migration and immigration, the paradoxes of national citizenship, and how the diversity of language and culture enrich and fill out the human experience.
survival and sustainable society
Discusses the global challenges we face as a species, and the urgent necessity of developing a sustainable presence on our planet. Topics include global warming and climate change, pollution, disease, military spending and nuclear proliferation, water and food crises, and eco-friendly living (urban studies and planning, transportation, local economies, etc).
true justice and effective freedom
Concerned with establishing true justice and effective, as opposed to nominal, freedom for all of the earth's people, regardless of "moral luck" and circumstance. Topics include economic (in)equality, gender (in)equality, effective freedom, education policy, drug policy and penal reform, the commons and theories of appropriation, and theories of justice.
