Wilmette Institute

An online educational institution that draws on the principles of the Bahá’í Faith to inspire sustained social change for the common good. Courses are designed to explore individual and collective transformation by empowering students to advance a more just and peaceful society.
Who can take a Wilmette Institute course?
​​Upcoming online courses
​covering a broad range of topics
​​YouTube channel
​recordings of popular webinars, web talks, course introductions, and lectures
100 Web Talks
20th Anniversary Web Talks - 2016

The Baha'i Chair
​for World Peace

The Promise of World Peace

​In 1985, the Universal House of Justice addressed a message to the peoples of the world inviting them to consider that a new social order can be fostered by all peoples’ seeing themselves as members of one universal family. This message was presented to world leaders and countless others during the United Nations International Year of Peace.
​To the Peoples of the World:

The Great Peace towards which people of good will throughout the centuries have inclined their hearts, of which seers and poets for countless generations have expressed their vision, and for which from age to age the sacred scriptures of mankind have constantly held the promise, is now at long last within the reach of the nations. For the first time in history it is possible for everyone to view the entire planet, with all its myriad diversified peoples, in one perspective. World peace is not only possible but inevitable. It is the next stage in the evolution of this planet—in the words of one great thinker, “the planetization of mankind”. ...
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