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Educating the Atlanta community on the complex foreign policy issues

confronting the United States and the global community.





HISTORY

The Atlanta Council on International Relations (ACIR) has a 70-year heritage of bringing foreign policy issues to Atlanta businesses, professionals and academic communities. ACIR is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing its members and the metro Atlanta community, through public discussion groups, forums, panels, lectures, and other similar programs, with a better understanding of the complex issues that confront the United States and the global community in the fields of international and security affairs, global economics and policy, and relations between and among nations and non-state actors in the international arena.



Mission

ACIR's educational purpose is to INFORM the public on subjects meaningful to individuals and beneficial to the community living in an interconnected world; to STIMULATE INTEREST in and KNOWLEDGE of international relations, world affairs, and foreign policies that affect the community and its economic, social, and intellectual well-being and security; and to PROMOTE UNDERSTANDING of international affairs through a broad dialogue on those subjects. It achieves these purposes through public discussion groups, forums, panels, lectures, and other similar programs.




Vision

ACIR is dedicated to providing its members and the community with a better understanding of the complex issues that confront the United States and the global community in the fields of international and security affairs, global economics and policy, and relations between and among nations and non-state actors in the international arena. It seeks to be a forum for high-level discussion and learning between those individuals in metro Atlanta who desire to interact with others with similar interests and with world-class experts. Through ACIR programs, we attract additional members who have a keen interest in thoughtful discussion of international affairs to broaden our forum. This will give rise to opportunities for those speakers with commanding knowledge of international events to inform our members further and to continue ACIR's growth and its influence in the Atlanta metropolitan area and beyond.