Mission Statement
The ARI Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting positive changes in education policy and practices through innovative ideas and solutions to the most pressing education issues of our time. ARI introduces a new way of thinking by explaining the benefits of recognizing and implementing the rules of an interdependent and integrated world.
Through its networks, activities and multimedia resources, ARI promotes international and interdisciplinary cooperation.
What We Do
We encourage dialogue on the worldwide crisis as an opportunity to facilitate a positive shift in global thinking about educating future generations to cope with massive shifts in climate, economics and geopolitical relations. Our message and materials are available to all, regardless of age, gender, religion, political, or cultural considerations. Our materials are based on ancient and contemporary wisdom that reveals the integral and global system of natural laws manifesting themselves in society today. The Institute is committed to sharing its knowledge base on an international level through its established multimedia channels, in order to enhance awareness of the necessity to conduct human relations with mutual responsibility and personal involvement, to provide free and accessible information, and to offer direction and solutions to the serious problems affecting society today.
To date, the ARI education program has attracted thousands of students from such places as North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Australia, Asia, and Africa.
Our Values
We are all living in trying times, confronted by crises on every level of our personal, environmental, and social existence. These crises are occurring because mankind is unable to perceive the interconnectedness, and more importantly, interdependence among us all, and between the human race and nature. By providing information to the public through a rich media environment, we can serve as a catalyst to shift human behavior toward a more sustainable model. We aim to advocate a solution to the current global crisis by promoting our unique educational content and presenting it through media channels worldwide.
Through extensive research and public activities, ARI offers a coherent understanding of the natural development of events and societal degradation that have led to the current state of the global and integral world in which we live today. Additionally, we are expanding our online environment to reach children who will benefit by their participation in an educational process that will encourage them to become tolerant, responsible, and considerate human beings who understand the opportunities and responsibilities of living as Global Citizens. In this web-based environment, children will be able to collaborate in activities simultaneously occurring in different parts of the world, thereby helping them to recognize that they are all connected as part of a united global village. Using teaching aids delivered as program components, they will learn how they can improve humanity through their coordinated actions and intentions. We believe that exposure to this environment can profoundly change an entire generation of children, turning them into responsible citizens of the world and marking a turning point in mankind’s currently destructive behaviors.
Where We Stand on Education?
The new generation is facing a completely new world and unprecedented challenges. If we focus on their needs, we can significantly help them to face problems such as drug abuse, violence, and increasing school dropout rates, issues that we believe are not being successfully addressed by most current educational systems.
Where We Stand on Economics
The crisis is neither financial nor economic, nor is it ecological. Rather, it is a global crisis that encompasses the entire human civilization and all realms of life. Therefore, we must look at the root of it and address the common problem, which is our self-centered nature.
We believe that a superficial change in society will not yield a lasting solution. First, we must alter the connections between us, from egocentrism to altruism. This is the principle by which integral systems operate, and today we are discovering that the human society is precisely such a system.
Our Activities
TV and Video Productions
ARI Films (www.arifilms.tv) is ARI’s film and television department, a highly successful, young, and dynamic production enterprise specializing in content services for the Internet, cable, and satellite television stations. ARI Films produces various educational and documentary programs, docu-dramas, and talk show series as well as custom made productions. The ARI Films team consists of experienced professionals from a wide array of fields including video editors, animators, cameramen, scriptwriters, producers and directors, all headed by Semion Vinokur, an internationally renowned, award winning film director and writer.
Video Streaming on the Internet
Since 1995, the ARI internet & streaming video department has developed several successful internet sites. These include one of the largest, most extensive educational content sites on the web (www.kab.info) which features content in 34 languages and hosts more than one million unique visitors, with over 4.5 million page views a month.
The Internet and streaming video department has established a vast media archive with over 50,000video and audio items in seven different languages including English, Spanish, Russian, Hebrew, French, Turkish, and German. Additional content is available in dozens of other languages. The ARI Internet team has been a pioneer in streaming media on the Internet since the technology emerged in the late 1990′s. Today, the team streams live events on a daily basis in five different languages, with each event streamed in a separate channel.
Publishing Department
The ARI publishing department serves diverse audiences worldwide and has published over 40 books, each translated into 17 different languages, as well as numerous scientific and educational materials that are released on an ongoing basis. ARI books and essays are published by prominent publishing houses around the world, such as:
International Forums
ARI organizes regular international forums all over the world that are attended by large audiences eager to participate and attend its lectures and workshops. These forums are broadcast live over the Internet and on cable and satellite TV networks.
The Citizens of the Future Education Center and Network
Citizens of the Future is a not-for-profit educational association established under the auspices of ARI, with a view to providing children, youth and parents with an online learning environment that promotes values of love and care for others, values which are so vital in this global age. We believe that children who acquire and adhere to these values will have a life of happiness, joy, and self-fulfillment. To achieve its goals, the Citizens of the Future association operates on several levels:
The Virtual Environment
The IT department of Citizens of the Future is in the final stages of constructing an Internet site that will provide a web-based environment that is educational, interactive, and dynamic for children and teachers the world over, based on the association’s above-mentioned values. The site will contain:
As part of the educational agenda, the virtual environment is managed by the children and youth, allowing them to express their skills and creativity.
Cinema School
The Citizens of the Future association operates a cinematography school managed by internationally renowned film director and writer Semion Vinokur. The school staff is populated with some of Israel’s best lecturers and cinematographers. The purpose of the school is to provide youth with tools for creating original and high quality content that promotes the message of consideration and love of others. The school offers five options for a major:
The foremost project of the cinematography school is the internet based TV channels for children and youth mentioned in the previous item.
Network of Children’s Education Centers
Citizens of the Future education centers are places where the method for building “human beings” is developed and implemented on a day-to-day basis. Here, a loving and supportive environment is constructed in favor of the children, based on the love of others. The activities include:
NIFLA Youth Movement
The youth movement, NIFLA, was formed out of the need to provide a supportive and loving environment for youth ages 12-18 in Israel and throughout the world who aspire to promote the values of mutual consideration and love of others. This social framework is a direct extension of the complementary education center, Citizens of the Future. Activities of NIFLA include:
About Dr. Michael Laitman, Founder
Professor of Ontology and Theory of Knowledge, Doctor of Philosophy, with a Master of Science degree in Medical Cybernetics, Dr. Laitman is the founder of the ARI Institute, with branches throughout North America, Central and South America, as well as Asia, Africa, and Eastern and Western Europe.
Dr. Laitman is dedicated to promoting positive changes in educational policies and practices through innovative ideas and solutions to the most pressing educational problems of our time. He has introduced a new approach to education, implementing the rules of an interdependent and integrated world.
A Guide to Living in a Globalized World
Dr. Michael Laitman provides specific guidelines for how to live in the new global village, our increasingly technologically interconnected world. His fresh perspective touches all areas of human life: social, economic, and environmental, with a particular emphasis on education. He outlines a new global education system based on universal values for creating a cohesive society in our emerging, more tightly interconnected reality.
In his meeting with Ms. Bokova, Director General of UNESCO, he discussed current worldwide education problems and his vision for their solution. This crucial, global topic is in the midst of major transformation. Dr. Laitman stresses the urgency of taking advantage of newly available communication tools, while considering the unique aspirations of today’s youth, and preparing them for life in a highly dynamic, global world.
In recent years Dr. Laitman has worked closely with many international institutions and has participated in several international events with the CME and the Goi Peace Foundation in Tokyo, Arosa (Switzerland), and Düsseldorf (Germany), and with the International Forum of Cultures in Monterrey (Mexico); these events were organized with the support of UNESCO. In these global forums, he contributed to vital discussions concerning the world crisis, and outlined the steps required for creating positive change through an enhanced global consciousness.
Dr. Michael Laitman has been featured in the following publications, among others: Corrieredella Sera, the Chicago Tribune, the Miami Herald, The Jerusalem Post, and The Globe and on RAI TV and Bloomberg TV.
Michael Laitman has spent his entire life exploring human nature and society, seeking answers to the meaning to life in our modern world. The combination of his academic background and extensive knowledge make him one of the most sought-after world thinkers and speakers. Dr. Laitman has written over 40 books that have been translated into 18 languages, all with the goal of helping individuals achieve harmony within themselves and with the environment around them.
Dr. Laitman’s scientific approach allows people of all backgrounds, nationalities, and faiths to rise above their differences and unite around the global message of mutual responsibility and collaboration, whether they are from Iran, Germany, Russia, China, Kenya, the United States, Chile, Australia, or any other country in the world.
Contacts:
| USA Seth Bogner US Executive Director s.bogner@ariresearch.org Rachel Laitman Executive Vice-President r.laitman@ariresearch.org Address 2009 85th St., Suite 51 Brooklyn NY, USA -11214 Tel. +1-917-6284343 |
CANADA Uri Laitman Chief Operating Officer Norma Livne, MA 1057 Steeles Avenue West Suite 532 |
| ISRAEL Ilya Vinokur, MA Director of Special Projects and Educational Research Address 112 Jabotinsky St., Petach Tikva, 49517 Israel i.vinokur@ariresearch.org Tel. +972-545606780 |
RUSSIA Lev Korchagin Executive Director 38А, Bolshaia Yakimankasreet, 119180, Moscow, Russia |