Because so many people want to put the ideas introduced by Riane Eisler into action, the Center for Partnership Studies (CPS), a nonprofit education organization, was founded in 1987. CPS has worked with individuals and organizations to change consciousness, promote positive personal action, encourage social advocacy, and influence policy.

One of CPS's major projects is the Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence, dedicated to showing the link between what happens in families and what happens in the family of nations -- and stopping the global pandemic of violence against women and children, which a U.N. report described as the most ubiquitous human rights violation in the world.

CPS’s other achievements include...

The first international partnership conference, attended by 400 people from 50 countries, hosted by the former first lady of Greece (1989).

The 1995 CPS study of statistical data from 89 nations, Women, Men, & the Global Quality of Life, demonstrates the relationship between women's status and quality of life for all. Published in time for the Beijing UN Women’s Conference, it is still used by national and international agencies working for gender equity.

Goddard College in Vermont inaugurated a Master’s Degree in Partnership Education in 2001 and the Montessori Foundation launched its Center for Partnership Education at its inaugural conference at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California in 2005.

We invite you to join the partnership movement and use the resources on the Center for Partnership Studies website to advance a way of life based on harmony with nature, non-violence, and gender, racial, and economic equity.