IUHS is a proud member of the United Nations Academic Impact Program.

Our University promotes the ten cardinal principles of the United Nations through its academic programs and research. The principles are integrated in the curricula and also guide the research of our faculty members.

IUHS aims to support the United Nations through its contribution to important policy debates about issues of global governance and sustainable development as well as by promoting a culture of peace through our academic programs.

In addition to our regular activities supporting the work of the United Nations, the University organizes at least one major event per year highlighting one or more of the ten core principles of the United Nations.

IUHS supports and actively promotes the following ten principles of the United Nations:

Academic Impact is informed by a commitment to support and advance ten basic principles:

1. A commitment to the principles inherent in the United Nations Charter as values that education seeks to promote and help fulfil;

2. A commitment to human rights, among them freedom of inquiry, opinion, and speech;

3. A commitment to educational opportunity for all people regardless of gender, race, religion or ethnicity;

4. A commitment to the opportunity for every interested individual to acquire the skills and knowledge necessary for the pursuit of higher education;

5. A commitment to building capacity in higher education systems across the world;

6. A commitment to encouraging global citizenship through education;

7. A commitment to advancing peace and conflict resolution through education;

8. A commitment to addressing issues of poverty through education;

9. A commitment to promoting sustainability through education;

10. A commitment to promoting inter-cultural dialogue and understanding, and the “unlearning” of intolerance, through education.