The objective of Damanhur is not just to create a spiritual community and a complex of Temples. Our vision, like that of other spiritual thinkers and movements, involves transforming the social and political systems of our planet.

The practical application of these principles at Damanhur demonstrates sustainable choices and models on all levels: social, political, economic and spiritual. This message spurs taking action to create a completely different world, no longer based on nations, but rather the wisdom and self-determination of the people.

This is a world in which rights come from fulfilling one’s responsibility towards others and demonstrating respect for life and the environment; in which the economy is based on shared prosperity with respect for people and resources; in which politics are considered a service and not something based on lies and violence; in which religious intolerance doesn’t exit, and spirituality serves as a motor to reawaken the ethical values inherent in every human being; in which peace is not considered the absence of war, but rather the comprehension that sharing human and worldly resources offers more advantages than conflict.

Many people are in agreement with these ideals and principles, although putting them into practice always has a cost. This is because it inevitably brings about conflict with current systems that protect the powers that be and their interests.

The social, economic and political experiment of Damanhur is the beginning of a new civilization, which aims to choose the best elements from the one’s original society, to liberate oneself from the social conditioning imposed by the country in which one lives.

• Starting in the 1980s, Damanhur has promoted inter-community meetings and conferences with the aim of creating an exchange network between social realities on every level, based upon practically applied ethical and spiritual principles.
• Ever since the 1980s, it has designed and produced an alternative currency, the Credit, aimed at developing a small economy through the circulation of goods and services, with the intention of realising an international, inter-community currency of exchange that is not based upon logics of profit and exploitation.
• In 2002, representatives of the Federation take part in a peace conference in Alylar, India, proposing a socio-economic model for a fair and sustainable relationship between East and West, respecting their cultures and differences.
• September 25th 2005, in China, the Federation of Damanhur receives – during the Global Human Settlement Forum – an award from the United Nations, as a model of a sustainable society, for its collaboration with the local authorities and for its commitment to facilitate the development of the territories.
• The Federation of Damanhur is among the first to sign a document proposing the creation of Ministries of Peace throughout the world. The declaration, supported by representatives of 11 different countries, is presented to the House of Commons in the English Parliament on October 18^th 2005.
• November 13th 2005, in Montecitorio (Rome), the social model of Damanhur is presented during an international conference on the theme ‘New cultural strategies against terrorism’. The representatives of the Federation put forward their proposal for the creation of a Ministry of Peace in Italy.
• Florence, November 27^th 2005, representatives of Damanhur propose the creation of a Ministry of Peace in Italy, during the national convention of CONACREIS, the Italian network of associations and communities of ethical and spiritual research, of which the Federation is one of the founding members.
• In May 2007, Damanhur is chosen as the Italian headquarters for the Global Peace Meditation Day, organised on a global scale by the Eevin Laszlo Foundation and the Club of Budapest (the international association to which has cultural, political and spiritual figures as its members – among which Mikhail Gorbachev, Vaclav Havel and the Dalai Lama – dedicated to the developing new ethics to tackle the social, political and economic changes of the 21^st century).
• In June 2007, Damanhur hosts 'Yesterday's Utopias, Todays Realities', the 9^th World Convention of the International Communal Studies Associatiion (ICSA), which brings together people who live in communities across the whole planet, to analyse community issues and set up projects linked to them. 

• March 8^th 2008, Damanhur hosts 'Laws chosen or submitted to, the Courts question themselves. Ethical values and experiences under discussion.' with the participation of Bruno Tinti, the Prosecutor of Turin and author of 'Useless Gowns', and also that of Marcello Maddalena, State Prosecutor for Turin. The conference examines the ethical and juridcal organisation of the Italian State in comparison with that of the Federation of the Community of Damanhur, highlighting the value of a system of regulations when chosen by the same citizens who are called upon to respect them.
• Still in March 2008, representatives of the Federation are on the panel of the Human Forum 2008 in Costa Rica, 'Scaling up connectivity of the emergent new world order', organised by the 'Alliance for a New Humanity. The conference, with the patronage and participation of the President of the Republic, Oscar Arias, sees the contribution of internationally renowned personalities such as the doctor and writer Deepak Chopra, the writer Marianne Williamson, the historian and philosopher Richard Tarnas, the producer and actor John Cleese, the musician and arts publicist - Lorin Hollander, the President of the Club of Rome and environmental award winner - Sasakawa, former director of the United Nations Environment Programme and President of the International Union for Conservation of Nature - Ashok Khosla, the founder of the Zero Emissions Research Initiative at the University of the United Nations in Japan - Gunther Paul, the President of the Institute for Noetic Sciences - James O'Dea, the writer and founder of the Omega Institute - Stephan Rechtschaffen, the President of the Esalen Institute - Gordon Wheeler.