Alexander Yakovlev
INSPIRATIONAL, 8 Oct 2018
Prof. Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service
In 1958, Alexander Yakovlev was among the first thirty Soviet students who received a Fulbright scholarship to study a year in the United States.
In 1985, he became Gorbachev’s key adviser for perestroika, glasnost and democratization.
That scholarship probably contributed more to ending the Cold War than billions the United States spent for weapons, which only aggravated tensions.
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Dietrich Fischer (1941-2015) from Münsingen, Switzerland, got a Licentiate in Mathematics from the University of Bern 1968 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University 1976. 1986-88 he was a MacArthur Fellow in International Peace and Security at Princeton University. He has taught mathematics, computer science, economics and peace studies at various universities and been a consultant to the United Nations. He was co-founder, with Johan Galtung, of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment in 1993.
Excerpted from Dietrich Fischer’s Stories to Inspire You – TRANSCEND University Press-TUP.
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