Just Horizons Alliance

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Just Horizons

Knowledge + Wisdom for a
More Just and Hopeful Future

Just Horizons Alliance is a visionary strategic change engine in a world of upheaval and increasing complexity. Our large network of experts is building a more hopeful and just future through scientific inquiry, global ethics, expansive spirituality, and innovative collaboration.

JHA has a lot going on. Here are just a few examples from human-in-the-loop computing for solving social problems to expansive-spirituality book publishing. Explore our initiatives (below) for plenty more. In everything we do, it’s knowledge plus wisdom for a more just and hopeful future.

Simulating Religious Violence

SRV is a documentary film beginning from the Boston Marathon bombing, and tracking JHA researchers as they try to understand and mitigate religiously motivated violence.

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AI Ethics

JHA designs curriculum to equip the next generation of tech engineers with a flexible ethical toolkit.

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Books That Spark Meaning

Wildhouse publishes profound and beautiful books to support expansive spirituality journeys and meaning-making.

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Suicide Prevention

When life becomes overwhelming or meaning collapses, suicidal thinking can begin. JHA researchers are looking for ways to help.

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Dimensions of Spirituality

What is spirituality? JHA researchers have figured out how to measure it, among religious AND nonreligious people.

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Modeling Religious Change

Religion is changing, quickly. And that's having huge effects on individuals, families, communities, and entire societies.

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DigEthix Podcast

Tune in to the DigEthix podcast for profound and practical ethical anaylses of the latest technological developments.

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Our Emerging Cultural-Evolutionary Niche

We're living in an unprecedented time. How did we get here? How do we adapt healthily to our current circumstances?

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Poetry for a New Era

Wildhouse Publishing's poetry imprint offers stunning artistic works, expressing expansive spirituality in unforgettable ways.

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. In fact, it’s the only thing that ever has. Cultural anthropologist Margaret Meade, recipient of the Planetary Citizen of the Year Award in 1978, reportedly said that, and it’s a key part of JHA’s theory of change. It’s why we publish books on expansive spirituality and teach ethics to students heading into the tech industry – we’re helping them become more effective changemakers right where they live and work. But changemakers are most effective when their efforts are accurately informed and strategically focused. JHA is a visionary strategic change engine grounded in research and focused on uniting the basic knowledge and inner wisdom needed to navigate the future.

How do we do it?

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

Humanity is facing an unprecedented polycrisis: social, cultural, political, economic, ecological, technological, and ethical. How can we meet 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"

Just Horizons Alliance directs multiple initiatives that generate positive 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.