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International Institute of Differing Civilizations
Summary
The International Institute of Differing Civilizations (Institut international des civilisations différentes, INCIDI) was an organization based in Brussels, Belgium, founded
in 1894 as the International Colonial Institute (Institut colonial international, ICI), that was active until 1980.
It was a forum for discussion of issues related to administration and development of European colonies, and later of post-colonial independent states.
The International Colonial Institute was founded on 8 January 1894 in Brussels, Belgium.
The institute was incorporated under Belgian law, and had its headquarters in Brussels.
Members were elected internationally from among the "distinguished citizens of States possessing colonies or undertaking colonization in their own territory".
There could be no more than 200 fellows of the institute in the world at any time.
The main statutory objectives of the Institution were:
To facilitate and spread the comparative study of the political science of administration and of colonial legislation.
To promote international relations between statesmen, administrators, and men of science thus engaged.
To organize scientifically an international Bureau of information.
It was taken for granted that the European colonizers had a mission to spread European civilization in their colonies and to guide their backward subjects in a peaceful transition from primitive agricultural societies and animist religions to more advanced industrial and Christian practices.
The institution soon became very influential.
There were 194 members in 1936.
Presidents included Joseph Chailley (1921–1923), Ramón María de Dalmau y de Olivart (1923–1925), François Marcal (1929–1936) and Lord Lugard (1936).
The institution held annual sessions in different capitals where various issues were discussed, and plenary sessions every two years or so.
It published a yearbook that gave legislative, administrative and political information about the most important colonies, and monographs on particular subjects.
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