The organization and its members jointly develop recommendations on, and practical solutions for, the political, economic and social problems confronting humanity.
These efforts are focused on three main priority areas: peace and security, world economic revitalization and universal ethical standards.
[2] This new "global ethic" would provide a foundation of freedom, justice and peace in order for universal rights to be meaningful.
[5] A second book, produced with the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation of Canada and the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, was released in the fall of 2012, entitled: The Global Water Crisis: Addressing an Urgent Security Issue.
[7] Also in 2014, the Council published a book from its Interfaith Dialogue in Vienna, Austria in March of that year, entitled, Ethics in Decision-Making.