"CEIA
is the world’s first organisation to promote empathy in international policy-making and practice. Our mission is to promote understanding, awareness and the practice of empathy to inform international policy-making, reduce conflict and strengthen responses to human suffering.
CEIA aims to explore and enhance awareness of how empathy can:
Provide a deeper understanding of conflict and violence
Inform foreign policy-making and strategy formulation
Reduce violence and contribute to the resolution of conflict
Galvanize and strengthen responses to human suffering"
"The ability to see the world and oneself as others do is never easy and failures of empathy explain a number of foreign policy disasters. "
—Robert Jervis, Professor of International Politics, Columbia University