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Adapt, Now, for a more just and hopeful future

Just Horizons Alliance promotes adaptive responses to a world of unprecedented upheaval and complexity.  Our large network of experts is building a more hopeful and just future through scientific inquiry, global ethics, expansive spirituality, and innovative collaboration.

When you’re worried about what’s coming, focus on adaptive character.

What We do

Adapting to our unprecedented cultural situation involves scientific knowledge and evidence-based reasoning, but that’s not enough. To adapt wisely, we need to address the deepest reaches of personal motivation and human meaning, as well. Just Horizons initiatives integrate knowledge AND wisdom for a more just and hopeful future.

Simulating Religious ViolenceSRV is a documentary film beginning from the Boston Marathon bombing, and tracking JHA researchers as they try to understand and mitigate religiously motivated violence.Click HereAI EthicsJHA designs curriculum to equip the next generation of tech engineers with a flexible ethical toolkit.Click HereBooks That Spark MeaningWildhouse publishes profound and beautiful books to support expansive spirituality journeys and meaning-making. Click HereSuicide PreventionWhen life becomes overwhelming or meaning collapses, suicidal thinking can begin. JHA researchers are looking for ways to help.Click HereDimensions of SpiritualityWhat is spirituality? JHA researchers have figured out how to measure it, among religious AND nonreligious people.Click HereModeling Religious ChangeReligion is changing, quickly. And that’s having huge effects on individuals, families, communities, and entire societies.Click HereDigEthix PodcastTune in to the DigEthix podcast for profound and practical ethical anaylses of the latest technological developments.Click HereOur Emerging Cultural-Evolutionary NicheWe’re living in an unprecedented time. How did we get here? How do we adapt healthily to our current circumstances?Click HerePoetry for a New EraWildhouse Publishing’s poetry imprint offers stunning artistic works, expressing expansive spirituality in unforgettable ways.Click Here

How We do it

Just Horizons is helping people become more effective forces for adaptive change right where they live and work by empowering them with the accurate information, strategic focus, and inner wisdom needed to navigate a profoundly uncertain future.

How do we do it?

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  One classroom at a time –adaptive AI ethics for the future
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  One person at a time – adaptive personal virtues for the future
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  One book at a time – adaptive expansive spirituality for the future
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  One problem at a time – adaptive prosocial computing for the future
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  Leading-edge research tells us where we are and what’s coming
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  Expert consultations identify the adaptive responses we most need

Preparing for a Future
we can Scarcely Imagine

Humanity is facing an unprecedented polycrisis: social, cultural, political, economic, ecological, technological, and ethical. How can we adapt to the daunting challenges of our time? By engaging mind and heart in research-informed change-making.

• Clever engineering is necessary but not enough to navigate the challenges we’re facing. We critically need adaptive wisdom — values, ethics, spirituality, the wellsprings of human meaning, updated for our time.
• We’re not going to guess or sleepwalk our way through what’s coming, either. To be adaptive in our perilous situation, human meaning (values, ethics, spirituality) must be firmly connected to open, replicable research.

Just Horizons Alliance unites sound knowledge and adaptive wisdom in everything we do: human-in-the-loop computing to solve social problems, ethical analyses of new and emerging technology, publishing books on expansive spirituality for our time. Sometimes we amplify the work of other changemakers. Sometimes we take action ourselves.  Everything we do faces forward, preparing for a future we can scarcely imagine.

The Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial Statue in the plaza at Boston University: “Free At Last!”

“Love is such a powerful force. It’s there for everyone to embrace – a kind of unconditional love for all humankind. That is the kind of love that impels people to go into the community and try to change conditions for others, to take risks for what they believe in.” — Coretta King

Photo by Wesley J. Wildman

Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

T. S. Eliot, “The Rock”

Our Initiatives

Just Horizons Alliance directs multiple initiatives that generate adaptive personal and cultural change. Our large network of collaborating partners are outside-the-box thinkers, including policy experts, tech engineers, researchers, social activists, educators, religious & spiritual leaders, artists, authors, and readers.

Conducting independent academic research

CMAC’s multidisciplinary research applies rigorous academic methods
to create data-informed solutions reaching far beyond the halls of academia.
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Connecting change agents, cultivating ethical skills and healthy virtues

WHE hosts dialogues aimed at realizing an expansive, inclusive, open-hearted
way of life that makes room for all to thrive.
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Publishing vital books on expansive spirituality and meaning

WHP is a non-traditional independent publisher of
spiritually adventurous nonfiction, fiction, and poetry—by unconventional writers, for unconventional readers.
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Fighting for ethical accountability around new and emerging technologies

DigEthix is a public education and communications project aimed at enhancing the level of public discourse around issues involving technology and ethics.
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