The IUAES is one of the member organizations of the InternationalSocial Science Council (ISSC) and also of the International Councilfor Philosophy and Humanistic Studies (ICPHS). The IUAES is also amember of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU).Its aim is to enhance exchange and communication among scholars ofall regions of the world, in a collective effort to expand humanknowledge. In this way, it hopes to contribute to a betterunderstanding of human society, and to a sustainable future basedon harmony between nature and culture. The IUAES once noted a draftstatement on the future of world anthropology in “CurrentAnthropology” (1979): “The scope of