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For example, IR encourages finding and extracting knowledge from specific fields of endeavor and showing how that knowledge can serve in additional fields and applications. It encourages attention to the interactive dynamics among individuals, communities, organizations, societies, and international bodies. It invites attention to categories such as the socio-cultural, political, economic, technological, and environmental. Taken as a whole, IR attempts to portray the range of factors that need to be integrated into effective approaches to today抯 complex issues.

IR is published by ARINA Inc., a U.S. tax exempt 501(c)(3) organization. The publisher's mission is to model, teach, research, publish, promote, and institutionalize holistic, integral understandings and processes that can be incorporated into efforts to address complex issues within individual, social, and global needs.

IR抯 strategy to support this international mission is the publication of works across a range of disciplines and cultures that may inform, support, and challenge readers in new ways. Works published are selected for their potential to help IR's audience develop a variety of resources necessary for being effective change agents.

IR is also the designated forum for the initial publication of integral social scientific research and project evaluations done under the auspices of ARINA. Original articles may appear in English or other languages with an English abstract.