Welcome to The Global Archives – exploring some sixty years of human development – pioneered by
the Ecumenical Institute (EI) and
the Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA)!
If you wandered in by accident or worked at finding this link, you have begun an extraordinary adventure.
This ‘library’ contains the collective work of EI and ICA colleagues. Here you will discover presentations, books, memoirs, stories, and publications. Institute staff members dedicate themselves to building models and sharing methods that bring working groups to life. These are practical skills, participation tools, and consciousness building for use in organizations, businesses, and communities. Their uses documented here in case studies and examples have contributed to movements of citizen participation, community development, nation building, and organization transformation across the world since the early 1960s.
The website is organized into four categories:
- WHO WE ARE: introduces the Institutes, highlights historical events in four year segments, and describes its values.
- ARCHIVE COLLECTIONS: the heart of the archives, organizing the 60-year history of work into nine collections.
- RESOURCES: includes some 200 books written by Institute colleagues (many which can be read online), the periodicals printed regularly over the years, and personal writings related to the Institutes.
- MEMORIALS: highlight the lives of people who were engaged in the Institutes work since the 1960s.
Enjoy!