Mission statement
The mission of APA’s Committee for Global Psychology (CGP)—formerly the Committee on International Relations in Psychology (CIRP)—is to increase contacts of all kinds between psychologists in the United States and their colleagues across the globe and, specifically, to encourage and support the free circulation of psychologists and of psychological ideas and information; promote and assist attendance at international psychology meetings and conferences; increase exposure to world psychological literature; support programs of international exchange of psychologists at all levels of academic and professional training in psychology; promote inclusion of an international perspective in the teaching of psychology at all educational levels; increase sensitivity to cultural and linguistic variance at all levels of academic and professional training; encourage the advancement of psychological knowledge that is relevant to international affairs and the application of that knowledge to the formulation of policy in international affairs; support the publication of international research; monitor and take action in cases involving infringements of the rights of psychologists or abuse of psychological knowledge and techniques wherever these may occur, consistent with APA’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists and with the International Union of Psychological Science’s Resolution Concerning Professional Ethics in Psychology (1976); apply psychological knowledge to the alleviation of psychological suffering attendant upon abuses of human rights; and initiate and maintain communication with international and regional organizations of psychologists, and with other national societies of psychology.