PeaceWorking to re-establish the United Nations' central role in global relations and transform U.S. foreign policy to focus on fairness and justice instead of unilateral power.

Foreign Policy In Focus
Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) is a "Think Tank Without Walls" connecting the research and action of more than 600 scholars, advocates, and activists seeking to make the United States a more responsible global partner.

Cities for Peace
Cities for Peace is building a network of local elected officials who are working to highlight the local costs of U.S. foreign policy and to put pressure on the U.S. government to end the war in Iraq, prevent a military strike against Iran, and press for a non-militarized foreign policy.

New Internationalism
The New Internationalism project works primarily on two issues: Iraq and Palestine/Israel. In both arenas the project focuses on education and activism regarding the problems caused by failed and failing U.S. policies, and how those policies should be retooled to meet the goal of a comprehensive peace with justice, rather than an unequal imposed stability.

Nuclear Policy
The Nuclear Policy Project focuses on three issues: strategic integration of nuclear material management into nuclear arsenal reductions and ending production of nuclear explosives, accountability of the nuclear weapons states to their citizens relative to social, environmental, safety, and health impacts, and structural collapse of Cold War nuclear institutions.

Justice Seeking to reverse the policies that are accelerating inequality at home and abroad and overhaul the reckless trade and investment rules that are driving a global “race to the bottom.”

Break the Chain Campaign
Break The Chain Campaign seeks to minimize the effects of human trafficking, modern-day slavery and worker exploitation through comprehensive direct service, research, outreach, advocacy, training and technical assistance.

Cities for Progress
Cities for Progress is a growing network of locally-elected officials and community-based activists working together for social change. CFP is a network that incorporates local, national and global approaches to issues that affect us in our own communities.

Inequality and the Common Good
The Program on Inequality and the Common Good focuses on the dangers that growing inequality pose for U.S. democracy, economic health and civic life.

Paths for Reconstruction in the 21st Century
The Paths for Reconstruction in the 21st Century project links knowledge to the betterment of the human condition through thinking and practical action. The project is based on the assumption that a renaissance of moral action and thought is on the immediate horizon.

Social Action & Leadership School for Activists
The Social Action and Leadership School for Activists (SALSA) offers affordable evening classes in Washington, D.C., to make D.C.-based activists and organizations more effective.

Environment Offering global solutions to climate chaos and corporate encroachment on water and other “commons.”

Global Economy
For more than a quarter century, IPS has been a leader in strengthening citizen responses to the global economy through research, writing, film, education, and coalition building. The project has produced dozens of books, articles, films, and educational materials.

Drug Policy
The Drug Policy Project combines scholarship with activism to transform drug control policy both at home and abroad. The Project works with the grassroots, media, and policy makers to shift away from the drug "war" paradigm and its disastrous impacts on the environment toward holistic policies that address public health and safety.

Sustainable Energy and Economy Network
The Sustainable Energy and Economy Network works in partnership with citizens groups nationally and globally on environment, human rights and development issues with a particular focus on energy, climate change, environmental justice, gender equity, and economic issues, particularly as these play out in North-South relations.