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Science can bridge national divides

David Kerr June 22, 2009.

Print: the Guardian Science Blog

David Kerr, professor of cancer therapeutics at Oxford university, sees renewed scientific leadership as a way for the Obama administration to make diplomatic inroads in areas where America is not popular, such as the Middle East. He points out that a recent forum on particle accelerators had representatives from Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Iran, Jordan, Pakistan, the Palestinian Authority and Turkey all sitting around one table.