Harvard University is looking for a role to play in providing a cooperative international mechanism or organization to help manage crises when they occur and even before they hit, the president of the prestigious American university said.
"We have to learn how to manage the world better," Neil L. Rudenstine said during a Harvard Community in Japan dinner held at a Tokyo hotel Wednesday evening. "We have to be able, very very soon, to build a kind of cooperative international engine, machinery, or organization, that will help us manage crises when they arrive, and contain these crises even before they arrive," over such problems as security, economy and environment.
One of the world's most resourceful universities, Harvard will bring all kinds of people with different disciplines and in different sectors to find ways to solve problems such as global warming, Rudenstine said.