IIFB is a non-profit research-oriented international educational association of scholars, professionals, organizations and interested individuals in any field or discipline who study and promote the Field-Being and non-substantialistic modes of thought. Founded by Dr. Lik Kuen Tong, presently Research Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut, U.S.A., towards the end of 1996, the IIFB has since its inception sponsored nine international symposia in addition to many colloquia, workshops, and group sessions in conjunction with the various divisional annual meetings of the American Philosophical Association and the American Academy of Religion. The IIFB has as its official organ an online journal—The International Journal for Field-Being—as well as chapter affiliates in China, Europe, Russia, and the U.S.A. forming a Global Field-Being Network. While prominently interdisciplinary and cross-cultural in its research orientations, the IIFB has from the very beginning aspired not only to the articulation of a new conceptuality for the New Millennium and the Global Age but also to the concretization of Field-Being philosophy in the live-world of practical affairs—an effort intended both to address the perennial needs of humanity and to throw significant light on the problematicity and predicaments of the contemporary global situation.

The activities of the IIFB are directed towards achieving the Field-Being objectives and values in the following areas: (1) Integration of physical and social sciences and the humanities; (2) Interface orientations of spirituality and interfaith dialogue; (3) Resolution of civilizational conflicts towards creativity and peace; and (4) Trans-cultural and interdisciplinary approach to intellectual and humanistic issues

In recent years the IIFB has fostered the development of Research Groups as a viable, strategic means to organize and facilitate its activities and research projects. Involved in each research group is an international network of scholars and professionals united by a set of common interests. Thus the RG structure both cuts into and complements the regional division in the formation of the IIFB intellectual community.

IIFB Board of Officers

Founder-President and Director: Lik Kuen Tong, Research Professor of Philosophy, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA

Executive Director: Curtis R. Naser, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA

Vice-Presidents and Co-Directors

Within USA

Laura E. Weed, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, The College of St. Rose, New York, USA

David White, Associate Professor of Philosophy, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York, USA

Outside USA

Jesper Garsdal, External Associate Professor, Institute for Philosophy and History of Ideas, University of Aarhus, Denmark

Dusan Pavlovic, Independent Scholar and Lecturer, Director, LITO, Management Consulting Agency, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro

Board of Advisors

Kenneth Inada, Professor Emeritus, SUNY Buffalo, New York, USA Robert C. Neville, Dean, School of Theology, Boston University, USA Harold H. Oliver, Professor Emeritus, Boston University, USA Vincent Shen, Chair Professor of Philosophy and East Asian Studies, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Thomas Regan, S.J., Superior New England Province, Boston, USA