Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to advancing cooperation between nations and promoting active international engagement by the United States. It is a unique global network of policy research centers in Russia, China, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. The organization’s aim is to advance the cause of peace through analysis and development of fresh policy ideas and direct engagement and collaboration with decision makers in government, business, and civil society. Its centers bring the inestimable benefit of multiple national viewpoints to bilateral, regional, and global issues by working together. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace launched a plan in 2006 to build the first global think tank. At its international centers, local experts produce unrivaled work on critical national, regional, and global issues, collaborating closely with colleagues across the world. Today, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has research centers in Beijing, Beirut, Brussels, Moscow, and Washington. It is supervised by an international board of trustees and its research activities are overseen by a global management group. More than two-thirds of its current scholars were born outside the United States, nearly all speak languages other than their native tongues, and most have had experience in government. The global think tank has websites in Arabic, Chinese, English, and Russian. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is headquartered in Washington, D.C.