Founded in 1949, upon the initiative of UNESCO,
i. the CIPSH is a non-governmental organisation, which confederates international scholarly unions, federations and associations, representing hundreds of different learned societies in the field of philosophy, human sciences and related subjects.
ii. the CIPSH has a special framework agreement of cooperation with UNESCO, bing involved in several collaborative projects and acting as advisory Council for the Humanities.
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The CIPSH coordinates the international works and researches carried out by a huge constellation of centers and networks of scholars. It favors the exchange of knowledge among faraway scholars and fosters the international circulation of scholars, in order to improve the communication among specialists from different disciplines, enforce a better knowledge of cultures and of the different social, individual and collective behaviors and bring to the fore the richness of each culture and their fruitful diversity.