To achieve a comprehensive referenced database of accurate researched material that forms a resource to develop both human recognition of and responsibility for the intellectual, ethical and physical environments that humankind inhabits.

Although the physical environment is the most obvious one, as sentient beings we inhabit, by dint of being able to develop abstract thought, several non-physical environments and these have direct influence on the physical one that sustains us.

The social environment is a complex intellectual conceit that we have built over time. The political system that acts as a framework for the operation of society; we build legal structures to order our and control behaviour; educational and religious institutions inform, help us interpret the world and guide us; the financial environment provides the means of developing diverse capabilities ranging from trade to accessing services from cultures other than our own. All these are non-physical yet are treate as real.

Though not physically real, our acceptance of the of these abstract and metaphysical structures as real has enabled humans to build very complex social organisations that have brought forth rich cultures from many parts of the world, most of which interact peacefully with each other.

In a structure as complex as this, it is inevitable that it will contain entropy, the seeds of its own destruction. Social structures do fail and sometimes descend into chaos.

It will be a central part of the business of the foundation to research social structures as part of our environment as a whole and assess whether descending into chaos is inevitable or whether there is a common cause that can be identified and stabilised to ensure perpetual peace.