Goals of CISV

CISV aims to give individuals opportunity to learn to live peacefully with many nationalities. CISV seeks to achieve this goal by conducting educational programs and activities. These programs and activities are designed to achieve one or more of the following specific goals:

1. That individuals will make close friendships around the world, that is, that countries will become known to them in terms of close friends rather than as abstract places on a map, or as stereotypes built from ignorance or limited experience.

2. That individuals will become aware of basic likenesses of all humans, and at the same time that they will come to know and appreciate differences.

3. That individuals will acquire an active desire for world peace and a desire to work for it.

4. That individuals will acquire skills of communication with individuals and with groups, even when many languages are represented and when no common language exists.

5. That individuals will acquire skills of administration and organization.

6. That individuals will develop personalities that are essentially free from barriers, for example, essentially free from the barrier of prejudice.