The Institute on World Problems has changed its name to the Earth Constitution Institute (ECI). The Institute includes a group of scholars, researchers, and students who examine global problems deeply with a view to their interrelatedness and interconnectedness. We address the problems not in an ad hoc crisis by crises manner (the most common approach to world problems) but rather by looking at the systematic causes and consequences of present day institutions. We study and promote integrated and lasting solutions to the deepest problems facing humanity in the early 21st century.

The IOWP (now ECI) is a non-profit and tax deductible organization of dedicated and loving researchers who want to open up a future for the children of the world and establish the possibility of a decent world system for all the citizens of the Earth. We work with like-minded organizations such as the City Montessori School (CMS) of Lucknow, India and the World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA) that sponsors the Constitution for the Federation of Earth and sessions of the Provisional World Parliament.

IOWP research is behind a number of the quality legislative acts and resolutions passed to date in sessions of the Provisional World Parliament. Together these legislative acts and resolutions articulate the vision of an integrated and coherent world system that establishes a decent future for the world’s two billion children. We support the elaboration of an integrated world system designed to address global crises and world problems under the authority of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.

IOWP-ECI has a number of projects that cooperate with the WCPA that include research and education directed toward solving world problems. We are developing permaculture projects in Togo, West Africa. Second, we are developing the Collegium of World Judges by helping retired judges envision and articulate the foundations for a world under the auspices of enforceable democratically legislated world law. Third, we support the educational and research functions of the Provisional World Parliament. Fourth, we promote education worldwide concerning global issues and our options with regard to dealing with those issues.

The IOWP (today ECI) was created in 2003 to carry forward the work of the Graduate School of World Problems that was created by the Provisional World Parliament in its first session in 1982. We offer certificates, develop on-line courses through World Parliament University (WPU) and train future leaders within the Earth Federation Movement. We have held seminars in many countries around the world.  A list of these seminars, with photos, is found below. We ask your support for the Institute in our vital work of trying to establish a viable future for humanity and our precious planet Earth.

Link to IOWP/ECI website

World-wide seminars on World-problems and their integrated solution under the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.

The Graduate School of World Problems was begun in 1982 by an act of the Provisional World Parliament. Continuing its work, the Institute On World Problems was founded in 2003 to provide the initial activation of the Institute On Governmental Procedures and World Problems identified in Article 8, Section D of the Constitution of the Federation of Earth.  The Institute picks up where the Graduate School left off (see the first photo below). The Institute has the educational mission of studying world problems in relation to good government, of promoting sustainable development around the world, of promoting Esperanto as a universal language and English as a second language, and of promoting democratic world law and nonviolent procedures of conflict resolution everywhere on the Earth.

“Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair.”

Board of Trustees

Meeting Minutes of the Board of Trustees 2004-2013