The diverse crises facing humankind call for profound change at the level of thought.
COMIT is an independent research organization dedicated to advancing that change. Grounded in the principle of human oneness, we develop new frameworks for understanding the world through scholarship, publication, and community. Learn more.
Featured Conversations
A conversation with CORNEL WEST AND Akeel Bilgrami
Identity, Spirituality, and Social Change
An exploration of how spiritual traditions can shape our societies, our selves, and our visions of social change.
A conversation with Seyla Benhabib and Kwame Anthony Appiah
The Future of Cosmopolitanism
A discussion of how cosmopolitan ideas shape ethical and political thought in an age of increasing interdependence.
Research Program
COMIT pursues a research agenda organized around a single conviction: that inquiry beginning from the reality of human oneness can transform how humanity understands itself and orders its common life.
THE POWER OF HUMAN ONENESS
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COHERENT DEVELOPMENT LAB
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THE ENDS AND MEANS OF SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION
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COMIT AI LABS
How can the growing capacities of artificial intelligence serve the advancement of knowledge without displacing the human powers of judgment, wisdom, and love?
Publishing
COMIT publishes curated books and essays through its academic imprint, Pivot Press—giving collaborative inquiry durable and freely accessible form.
Development in Transition: Rethinking Rural Futures
The Horizon of Human Oneness: Essays and Conversations
Recent & Upcoming Events
A Conversation with erin Murphy-graham, shahrzad sabet, and benjamin schewel, exploring the intersection of AI, human potential, and global justice.
The AI Phase Change: Human Potential and Global Justice
February 6, 2026 | Berkeley, CA
Upcoming speaker series on what AI reveals about what we actually are, and what horizon of human possibility opens when we take that question seriously.
Beyond Intelligence: Rethinking the Human in the Age of AI
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