This week's quotation comes from a February 9, 2007 editorial in Science magazine:
It is time for the scientific community to increase its role in diplomacy—and maybe even take the lead. Nongovernmental scientific organizations are more credible, more nimble, and—as honest brokers—in many cases more respected than the U.S. government overseas. They work at the grassroots level on global problems such as energy, clean water, and health. A vigorous new science diplomacy, oriented to foreign citizens as well as their governments, will promote human well-being, will benefit science, and will catalyze public diplomacy. Our country needs a new era of science diplomacy, and we need the commitment of the U.S. science community behind it. [Kristin M. Lord and Vaughan C. Turekian 2007] This photo is from the US National Archives, but I found it using the Flickr avatar of of PingNews.com, the Public Information Network Group.
It is time for the scientific community to increase its role in diplomacy—and maybe even take the lead. Nongovernmental scientific organizations are more credible, more nimble, and—as honest brokers—in many cases more respected than the U.S. government overseas. They work at the grassroots level on global problems such as energy, clean water, and health. A vigorous new science diplomacy, oriented to foreign citizens as well as their governments, will promote human well-being, will benefit science, and will catalyze public diplomacy. Our country needs a new era of science diplomacy, and we need the commitment of the U.S. science community behind it. [Kristin M. Lord and Vaughan C. Turekian 2007] This photo is from the US National Archives, but I found it using the Flickr avatar of of PingNews.com, the Public Information Network Group.
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