In response to the Algerian Revolution, French officials turned to cultural anthropologist (eg. Jacques Soustelle, Germaine Tillon, Vincent Mans?r Monteil, etc.) and to UNESCO-produced documentation on basic education, industrial development, and the fight against racial discrimination to anchor the policy of "integration." Integration was supposed to revise previous assimilationist or associationist efforts to negotiate Algerian "differences" and French rule. In theory, it offered a new explanation for why Algerians themselves would benefit from membership in a redefined French Republic: by admitting that Algerian culture should shape France and that French racism already (and profoundly) affected Algerians, a "modernizing mission" that respected Algerians and that improved their lives would take shape. This paper will focus on how the French used UNESCO and transnational networks of cultural anthropologist to both define their policies and to present them to international audiences as novel, deeply humane, and potential models to address general problems of "under-development" and "ethnic conflict."