Organizations that hold a vision for building global sustainability by implementing conflict resolution methods are important for global development, as they assist all of us who are identified with our national, ethnic, tribal or religious communities to relate to one another in the global village in a new way. However, we feel it is equally important to value and respect  unique inherent cultural processes by affirming them rather than suggesting from an outside perspective that there is a superior way to deal with conflict, and that conflicting parties should leave their natural development process to go beyond war. This is based on an additional view which suggests that conflicting parties are simply groups that are in the process of clarifying their identities and values as they develop their own new leadership cultures. These new leadership cultures are essential for establishing neighborly relations upon a foundation of self-confidence and pride in belonging.
DDI aims to accept the global situation at face value and to fill the gap by assisting in the process of developing leadership cultures that are based on each group’s distinctive way of relating to its neighbors, thus co-facilitating with the region the natural development process.