Primarily through this website, ISP serves as a world-wide "virtual" forum for individuals and organizations who wish to help explore and develop methods to avert or alleviate human suffering caused by the willful or unwitting actions of individuals through governments, institutions, professions, or social groups.

* Through this website, ISP supports and encourages discussion and debate on key panetic issues.

* It convenes conferences and debates on such issues.

* It sponsors an annual Ralph G.H. Siu Memorial Lecture and a companion debate on a panetic topic relevant to world concerns at the time.

* It sponsors and encourages interdisciplinary research on panetic questions.

* It encourages applications of panetic analysis to actual decision-making in order to advance and refine the discipline.

* It publishes a journal.

* It publishes books relevant to the advancement of panetics as a discipline.

* It encourages the teaching of panetics as a discipline and provides syllabi and textbooks to support such teaching.

YOU may participate in ISP in many ways:

IN WORLD WIDE DISCUSSION AND DEBATE—

* Through the "listserv" Panetics Global Forum accessible through this website;

* Through the annual meeting of ISP held in Washington, DC; or-- * Through the journal "Panetics".

THROUGH RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS:

* By proposing an interdisciplinary research project via the "Panetics Global Forum" or "Contact Us" on this website;

* By participating as an interdisciplinary research team member in an actual research project announced by ISP in the research section of this website (members of ISP only);

* By disseminating the results of a relevant research project in the Panetics journal or in the "Research" or relevant applications section of this Website. (Send as e-mail attachments to "Contact Us" on this site, or to ISP at P.O. Box 142 College Park, MD, 20741, USA); or--

* By applying the tools of panetic analysis in actual situations and reporting the results on this website or through the journal.

THROUGH PUBLISHING—

* By submitting relevant articles to the journal, Panetics, for refereed consideration either as an e-mail attachment through the Contact Us mailbox on this site; or by mailing a manuscript to ISP at P.O. Box 142 College Park, MD, 20741, USA; or--

* By submitting book manuscripts for possible refereed publication. Manuscripts should be mailed to ISP at Box 142 College Park, MD 20741, USA.

THROUGH EDUCATION—

* By teaching. See "Teaching Panetics" on this Website for some syllabi and lists of teaching materials, including a textbook and bibliography. Other materials may be obtained by request through Contact Us on this site.

* Through public speaking. See the "Speakers Bureau" on this Website.