The diverse crises facing humankind call for profound change at the level of thought.
COMIT is an independent research institute 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 Events
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 is pursing a coherent research agenda organized around a single conviction: that beginning from the reality of human oneness can transform how humanity understands itself and orders its common life.
What distinguishes COMIT’s research program is not only what we study but how. We work through consultation — sustained, trust-based inquiry in which diverse perspectives illuminate a shared object of study rather than compete for ground. We also attend seriously to the conditions that make insight possible: the quality of relationships, the atmosphere of gatherings, and the integration of intellectual and spiritual seriousness that allows a community to think together at depth.
SOCIAL JUSTICE
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ARITIFICAL INTELLIGENCE LAB
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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
A Conversation witH XYZ 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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