The Foreign Service Institute (FSI) was established in the 1950s, to offer a broad based program of professional training for the young entrants to the Foreign Service of Liberia. As an intellectual institute for training and research, the Institute has the mandate to create a program conducive for the exchange of ideas on the political underpinnings of global economic relations, cultural diversities, integration, and the issue of conflict. The programs of the Institute are geared at providing intellectual orientation for Liberian Foreign Service Officers and Diplomats and also provide a penetrating insight and understanding of continental and the culture of foreign policy formulation and implementation.