Partnering Against Terrorism Summary of a Workshop (2005) / Chapter Skim
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II. Proceedings: Welcome and Introduction
II. Proceedings: Welcome and Introduction
Pages 21-27
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The combined Academies produce more than one report every working day, most of them for the federal government. Noting the breadth of the response by the Academies to the September 11 attacks, he singled out the "rather heroic effort" on the part of some 160 volunteers who produced a major report released late in June 2002, titled Making the Nation Safer: The Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism.1 That study was initiated in the same room as the current workshop was being held, on September 26, when some 35 scientists and security experts gathered to recommend how the Academies could contribute to the "new, changed world." That gathering, he said, led to the current workshop, as well as "at least 50 others underway currently, attempting to bring the great strength of science and technology in this nation to bear on protecting the United States." He noted that he had just returned from a week in Uganda, which prompted him to emphasize that terrorism is a worldwide problem.
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He mentioned a major effort of the National Academies to "help develop in every nation the kind of capability that scientists have in this nation to advise their governments both on what we call policy for science -- how to make science effective for meeting national needs -- and science for policy -- how to make wise decisions about the environment, water, health, and the future. "All those decisions need to be made at the national level," he said.
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In view of the long history of partnerships, therefore, the STEP Board had not tried to determine whether they should or should not exist; the Board simply accepted that they do exist in many forms and for many functions. Nor did the board try to compare partnerships according to degree of success, either in the United States or abroad.
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He said that the lesson there, on which the participants at the meeting agreed by consensus, was that funding for the physical sciences was essential for continued advances in health sciences and life sciences. "I was pleased to see that the President's science advisory council has picked that up and is proposing a significant increase in physical sciences." He said that the advances in our life and health science programs would likely slow without new instrumentation, better measurement techniques, and sophisticated light sources, such as those produced at Lawrence Berkeley lab and Argonne National Laboratory, where it is possible to study the crystals of complex proteins.
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Quality leadership and quality people participating is a rule that needs to be followed." He then borrowed a mathematical expression to say that these conditions were necessary but not sufficient to bring positive change. "I don't know of a close set of sufficient conditions we could write down," he said, "that would ensure that a partnership will succeed." These lessons need to be followed, he said, but doing so does not guarantee success.
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