The examination of the reasons behind the mid-1980s US withdrawl from UNESCO are the subject of this document. Citing an anti-US, third world centric bias, problems with enforcement and participation, the authors outline the findings of the 1986 IGCC Conference on the UNESCO crisis.

It takes more than orginary presumption for a group of strangers to recome mend changes in the efforts of a great nation to contend with a problem that goes to the very roots of its social structure and its livelihood