Global Initiative

Mission

The Atlas Global Initiative for Free Trade, Peace and Prosperity seeks to increase the understanding of ideas and policies based on the inalienable human rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It offers a human-rights-based alternative to coercive ideologies worldwide by showing the justice and the practical benefits of personal liberty and limitations on state power.The Initiative creates, manages, and promotes products and programs in a number of languages and encourages worldwide cooperation among those who understand and value liberty.

Promoting Freedom

The Global Initiative for Free Trade, Peace and Prosperity works around the globe to promote the ideas and policies of liberty. The Initiative helps facilitate a worldwide network across disparate countries that advances aspirations for individual liberty, freedom of association, religious freedom, freedom of trade, limited government, the rule of law, and peace. Through the publication and distribution of books, promotion of Internet content, syndication of articles through the press, creative use of new media, organization of teaching seminars and policy conferences, and more, the Initiative is gaining an international reputation for reliable, up-to-date, and insightful analysis, which is influencing the terms of the debate over public policies around the world.

Learn more about our 2009 activities by clicking here and reading our “Advances in 2009″ report.

Free Trade Petition

In cooperation with the International Policy Network and a worldwide group of think tanks, the Atlas Global Initiative is circulating a petition to combat recent moves towards harmful economic nationalism. Please click here to read more and to sign the petition.

Books

The Atlas Global Initiative arranges scholarly translations, and publishes a number of fine non-English editions of important books that make the principles of free markets, individual liberty, limited governments and peace available to new readerships all around the world. Take a look at the AGI Library.

Video

The Atlas Global Initiative works to create online video content that can be easily translated and used by AGI’s Internet Platforms. Videos based on current issues, and scholarly interviews are featured. Visit the AGI Video Library.

Teaching Seminars and Policy Conferences

The Atlas Global Initiative organizes a number of teaching seminars for students and young professionals, as well as policy conferences for scholars, policy makers and journalists. Check out past events here.

Internet

The Initiative coordinates a network of 13 major programs and many subsidiary projects working together across linguistic, cultural, and regional contexts to bring the ideas and policies of individual liberty, toleration, free markets, the rule of law, and peace to populations around the world.

Minbaralhurriyya.org (Arabic)	Cheragheazadi.org (Persian)
Chiraiazadi.org (Kurdish)	Guominliyi.org (Chinese)
Unmondelibre.org (French)	Ordemlivre.org (Portuguese)
Africanliberty.org (English and Swahili)	Azadliqciragi.org (Azerbaijani)
AkademiMerdeka.org (Bahasa Melayu/Indonesia)	InLiberty.ru (Russian)
Azadi.me (Hindi)	Hum-Azadi (Urdu)
DoiMoi.org (Vietnamese)