The objects of the association are firstly to relieve poverty suffering and distress; secondly to advance the education of the public by the promotion of research into the causes and effects of conflict (whether within or between ethnic or other groups or public entities of any kind) and research into the maintenance of human rights and development of economic well being in the context of such conflict and to disseminate the useful results of such research and thirdly to promote all means of conciliation and resolution of such conflict and reparation in relation to the same, so as to assist the resolution of such conflict such charitable objects to be carried on anywhere in the world.