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Administration
Links are to other Web sites, as noted. File paths are given for documents that can be found in the Ocean Research Library, or at Bahai Research .com.1987, Editors of Dialogue Magazine
H-Baha'i : "A Modest Proposal"
Prepared by the Dialogue Magazine editorial board for publication in the Summer/Fall 1997 issue, but never published. Contains proposals for administrative reform.
1988, various authors
H-Baha'i : The Service of Women on the Institutions of the Baha'i Faith
Presented at an Association for Baha'i Studies conference in New Zealand. Discusses the history of the participation of women in Baha'i institutions, and concludes: ". . . the assumption that women will be permanently excluded from the current Universal House of Justice may be a faulty one."
1988 May 31, The Universal House of Justice
Baha'i Library Online : Response to the New Zealand conference paper
"We present the following points as a means of increasing the friends' understanding of this established provision of the Order of Baha'u'llah that membership of the Universal House of Justice is confined to men."
1989 June 21, The Universal House of Justice
Ocean : Authoritative Baha'i/The Universal House of Justice/Letters/1989 Jun 21 'Dialogue' 'A Modest Proposal' etc
To an individual.
1993 February 7, The Universal House of Justice, Research Department
Baha'i Library Online : Issues Concerning Community Functioning
"A number of questions have recently been raised about how to assist malfunctioning local Baha'i communities, specifically those communities that have difficulty in responding to the needs and problems of their members, whose Spiritual Assemblies are unable to reach decisions, are unwilling to entertain frank and open consultation and which fail to acknowledge the existence of problems within the community."
1994 May 19, The Universal House of Justice
Baha'i Library Online : Concerns of the US National Spiritual Assembly
To the US National Spiritual Assembly. Discusses concerns of the National Spiritual Assembly about teaching, relations between the Assembly and the Continental Counsellors, and the functioning of the Assembly.
1994 August, Baha'i International Community (BIC)
BIC Statement Library : The Role of Religion in Social Development
Presented at the second session of the Preparatory Committee for the World Summit for Social Development.
1995 May 18, The Universal House of Justice
Baha'i Library Online : Suggestions about changing the Administrative Order
To an individual.
1996 February 16, The Universal House of Justice
Baha'i Library Online : Virgin birth; encyclopedia; administrative order.
To an individual.
1996 July 2, The Universal House of Justice
Baha'i Library Online : Criticism of Institutions
To an individual.
1997 May 30, The Universal House of Justice
Baha'i Library Online : Establishment of Regional Councils
To all National Spiritual Assemblies.
2001 May, Baha'i International Community (BIC)
BIC Statement Library : Overcoming Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity in Public Institutions: A Baha'i Perspective
Presented at the intergovernmental Global Forum on Fighting Corruption II.
2002 April, The Universal House of Justice
Baha'i Library Online : Letter to the World's Religious Leaders