At the University Institute, we are working to ensure the survival of humanity and the environment that supports humanity's flourishing. We research and offer solutions for the most critical challenges that humanity must manage to survive as a species. The links in the learn pulldown menu will cover the many areas we are working on.

Our research and educational topics and goals, in order of their current priority, include:

1. Promoting the training and use of the breakthrough DMAP (dialectical metasystemic analysis and problem-solving). This new DMAP methodology is ideal for optimized analysis, problem solving, and managing complex adaptive systems like climate change and political, economic, social, and ecological systems. DMAP methodology advances and transcends, yet includes systems thinking and other earlier data analysis systems like logic, scientific falsification, etc.

2. Climate change. (The Universe Institute partners with Job One for Humanity, a climate change think tank, on climate research and analysis projects.)

3. Environmental protection and sustainability.

4. Prevention of war and maintaining political stability primarily by helping to evolve a new "global country" and global government with the powers to make laws and enforce them on transnational issues threatening the survival of humanity. (Issues limited only to national boundaries would remain under the Control of national governments.)

5. Educating about the new principles of Progressive Evolution, particularly its educational possibilities in safeguarding and securing humanity's future.

6. Limited or depleting planetary resources management, such as marine protein depletion, growing freshwater supply scarcity, and the depletion of other critical resources like potassium for fertilizers.

7. Human population stability and management in alignment with the Earth's carrying capacity.

8. Stability of national and global economic systems and financial markets.

Please note that the breakthrough dialectical metasystemic advanced analysis and problem-solving methodology (DMAP) is also known by its originator, Otto Laske, as the dialectical thought form system (DTF).