News and Events

While the focus of our current and emerging projects are diverse, the Foundation's mission became increasingly coherent in 2006. We are becoming a focal point for innovative, multidimensional approaches to dealing with some of the world's intensifying conflicts by catalyzing support for a new, more collaborative and creative kind of leadership.

For those of you who have witnessed our efforts over the past twenty years, this focus may not be surprising. After all, many of the projects that we have undertaken - ranging from the Soviet American Entertainment Summit in the Eighties, to Global Partners and the Bipartisan Congressional Retreats in the Nineties, to our current projects - have reflected this priority. However, never before has this central mission of the Foundation been so clear or so compelling. As reflected in the title of my recently published book, we are only initiating or supporting projects that build knowledge and capacity to lead through conflict, rather than simply making conflicts worse. 

This year we celebrate the publication of the first Global Leadership Network book, Leadership Is Global. We have launched the Global Leaders Program (with Outward Bound International). We have also began to expand the Network itself, and have welcome several new participants to our most recent meetings. In addition, the Abraham's Path initiative has gained new momentum and is planning an important next step later this year.

Mark Gerzon
September 2006