Since its foundation, the Alternative Information Center has worked at the center of complex interacting social and institutional forces. As a Palestinian-Israeli organization, the AIC exists on the border between both communities and shares the struggle of the Israeli radical peace and democratic camp as well as the Palestinian national movement. At the same time, the AIC exists at the crossroads where media activism, human rights research and political analysis meet. The most significant achievement of the AIC is its ability to bridge these disparate, and at time antagonistic, movements in order to achieve tangible works of cooperation and concrete joint action.

The AIC identified a problem of coherence within the disparate actors working to achieve resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The 'office based' approach of the human rights organizations had little interaction with the activist methods of the Israeli peace movement which, in turn, were disconnected from the Palestinian national movement and the international solidarity movement and so on. The AIC identified the necessity of bringing these approaches together to produce a coherent agenda for the peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.

It is the AIC's view that the most effective means to achieve social justice for the Palestinian people is through the integration and development of cooperation between Palestinians and Israelis but also to profit from the integration of activism, research and analysis. In order to achieve this, the AIC has set its goals towards building projects drawing on the organizations unique 'bridging' facility and operated by a professional team who are also actively involved within their own communities and who are committed to establishing links across all operational and national boundaries.