Assumptions and principles that play a prominent role in the IDF activities are:
Justice
In spite of what cultural relativists want us to belief, the great majority of people all over the world has a keen sense of what is just and unjust.
Cohabitation
In cases where conflicts seem to be unsolvable the next best solution often seems to be cohabitation. Most people want to live undisturbed next to each other. The idea of cohabitation seems more concrete and down to earth than the idea of co-existence as it was used during the Cold War period.
Shared responsibility
In situations of ideological or political conflict often the best way to come closer to each other is to do things together on the basis of shared responsibility.
Participation:
For many people in this world their main problem is not so much that they do not have formal democratic rights, but that they feel excluded from participation in the decision-making about their own environment and conditions of life.
