The Ashburn Institute is an emerging research institution promoting democracy, international peace, and a community where people would consider themselves "part of the world and not a world apart" as described by New York Times correspondent Clarence Streit in 1939. However, it has chosen a special path to achieve its goals: educational and cultural exchange among the representatives of the global community through conferences and student conferences, roundtable discussions, publications, distant learning programs, and scholarship grants. A.I. sees its promoting of global education among young people as the long term benefit to the society. The programs are conducted at the academic level as well as graduate, undergraduate and high school levels, utilizing the latest state of the art technology to reach a large global audience.