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Organizations & leadershipFive institutions, one purpose.
Each organization Dr. Kaufmann leads addresses a different part of the same question: how do people live freely, honestly and peacefully together?
The Settlement Project
Addressing cultural polarization, preserving foundational constitutional principles, and offering civic counterproposals to radical ideologies.
- Peace, civic renewal and a free society
- Education and advocacy for individual freedom
- Webinars, conferences and a podcast series
Twelve Gates Foundation
Creating mutual understanding among religious traditions, hosting interfaith summits, and publishing spiritual discourses.
- Dialogue, reconciliation and collaboration
- Guided conversations for religious understanding
- The Twelve Gates Podcast and Twelve Gates Books
Professors World Peace Academy
Connecting professors and scholars internationally to analyze conflict resolution and global order.
- An academic network founded in 1973
- Forums on religious freedom, technology and world order
- The PWPA podcast
New World Encyclopedia
A cooperative, curated online repository prioritizing human dignity, positive societal contribution and historical truth.
- Refereed, value-centered general knowledge
- Twelve-discipline editorial board
- 14,000 articles completed in its first production push
Values in Knowledge Foundation
Exploring the intersection of moral values, science and the humanities, and renewing values in knowledge, information and media.
- Ethics, epistemology and the transmission of knowledge
- Support for New World Encyclopedia
- Projects that realize positive human values
IRFWP & the Council for the World’s Religions
The peace summits, Middle East pilgrimages and calls for an interreligious body at the United Nations that came before. Twelve Gates now carries that work forward.