【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】
rmath of thebombings. But our broader and ongoingresponsibility as a university is to ask and address the largerquestions anysuch tragedy poses: to prepare for the next crisis and the one after that, evenaswe work to prevent them。 to help us all understand the origins and themeaning of suchterrible events in human lives and societies. We do this workin the teaching and research towhich we devote ourselves every day. Investigators at the Harvardhospitals are exploring improved techniques for managinginjury. Researchers atBrigham and Womenamp。rsquo。s, for instance, are pursuing the prospect of legtransplantsfor amputees. A faculty member in our School of Engineering and AppliedSciences isstudying traumatic brain injury. Faculty in the Business andKennedy Schools are teaching andlearning about leadership in times ofcrisis。analyzing historic and contemporary examples,from Shackleton inAntarctica to Katrina in New Orleans。in order to search for lessons forthefuture. The very day of the lockdown, the Mahindra Humanities Center and theHarvard LawSchool Program on Negotiation had scheduled a conference on”。Confronting Evil,”。 examiningthe cognitive, behavioral and social implicationsof both what it called “。everyday evils”。 and”。extraordinary crimes.”。 A few dayslater, the Harvard Divinity School assembled a panel ofexperts to discuss”。Religion and Terror,”。 exploring sources of violence in Bosnia, in theMiddleEast, and during the Troubles in Ireland, which served as a formativeexperience for ourDivinity School dean in his youth. At the Institute ofPolitics at the Kennedy School, lawenforcement, emergency management and otherexperts gathered to consider lessons learnedfrom the bombings. As we struggledto understand the events that shook our city and ourregion, members of ourmunity were already engaged in interpreting the world that hadproduced suchtragedy and in seeking ways to prevent its recurrence. Three unusual days, making for anunusual year. Yet these three unusual daysunderscore and illuminate the usualwork of this University: calling on knowledge andresearch to addressfundamental challenges and dilemmas with resources dra