ABSTRACT
The National Institutes of Health provides a useful model for a National Institute of Planned and Peaceful Change (NIPPC), and the focus on change is hardly new. Thus the American Arbitration Association—an eventual component of NIPPC?—has been acting on one variety of nonviolent change for quite a time. The outreach activities of the US Department of Agriculture—in extension, in demonstration plots, in diffusion of innovations, and so on—suggest more of a model in this regard than some overpopulated hive of busybodies. NIPPC would help mobilize resources, and conduct crucial experiments with applications that could serve as demonstration sites from which large numbers might learn. It also could encourage the diffusion of various techniques-cum-values, bringing both successes and failures to the attention of relevant publics, and upgrading and enlarging the pool of OD intervenors employed in various public and business settings.
