The Boulder International Humanist Institute's mission is to create peace in people's hearts, in their homes, and throughout the world. We believe that Humanist ethics offer our best chance for peace and fulfilling lives. Our way of sharing the effectiveness of humanist ethics is to contrast it with the alternative ethical systems.

The Humanist model for ethics is that values are discovered by examining the social effects of our choices. Humanists believe that humans have the capacity and responsibility for making moral and better public policy choices based on our best understanding of the human personality and the benefit of the social sciences.