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All nations should help support the development of a global university designed to engage students in the process of solving the world's most persistent social problems

A country is made by the people who live in it. So we can compare a country with a human being, a person. If a person's success, accolades and possessions represent the economic nature of a country, his emotions, his principles, his dogmas and his senses would represent the social nature of the country. While, the accolades and possessions can be retrieved and changed periodically, the emotional structure is hard to change. The emotional structure of a person is precursor to his 'success'. The same principle applies to the country. This makes a global university specializing in process of solving the world's most persistent social problems a sheer necessity. Again, need of a Global university is reinforced by the fact that 'no man can live on an island of his own'. No country can be isolated and exist on its own without affecting the other countries. The effects of the social problems to the other countries albeit indirect could turn out to be catastrophic over a period of time...

Posted by: Sylvia Schiavoni

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