The Ashburn Institute (AI) 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.

The Ashburn Institute is striving to carry out its vision via expanding programs on democratic development. 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 the large global audience.

The Ashburn Institute is a new organization with a 501(c) 3 charitable status, created in 2004 as the global educational affiliate of the Association to Unite the Democracies .