Mission & Vision

The Sargent Shriver Peace Institute (SSPI) is dedicated to the study of Sargent Shriver’s approach to leadership, peacebuilding, and creative problem solving. We provide research, training, and education for those who wish to think, organize, engage, and strategize using Sargent Shriver’s example. We seek to collaborate with a diverse array of partners, including social activists, policy makers, spiritual leaders, public servants, cultural thought leaders, and members of Shriver legacy organizations, so that together, we can devise solutions to advance justice, tackle inequality, support democracy, alleviate human suffering, and build peace.

To inspire commitment, action, and social innovation following the example of Sargent Shriver.

To create a peaceable, inclusive world in which every human being has freedom, justice, dignity, and self-determination.