Strategic Vision

GIAS’s mission is to cultivate transformative research that challenges prevailing paradigms and fosters critical reflection across disciplines. We are dedicated to:

  • Advancing frontier scholarship through rigorous, interdisciplinary frameworks
  • Supporting scholars in producing work that contributes to structural reform, policy innovation, and ethical transformation
  • Facilitating public engagement with advanced scholarship to foster societal dialogue and understanding
  • Sustaining a reflective academic community rooted in critical humanism and collaborative innovation
  • Preserving academic time and mental space for speculative, longitudinal, and ethically embedded inquiry

GIAS envisions a world in which scholarship guides public reason and collective imagination toward more just, inclusive, and sustainable futures.

Our Strategic Goals:

  • Reinvigorate the public mission of research in a post-truth era
  • Establish epistemic infrastructures for anticipatory governance
  • Foster radical interdisciplinarity that bridges the cognitive, material, and institutional dimensions of global challenges
  • Center knowledge production in dignity, solidarity, and planetary stewardship
  • Resist knowledge extractivism through ethical collaborations and reciprocal partnerships
  • Create open knowledge ecologies that serve civil society, not just academic audiences