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20.04.2026

Repositioning science within an uncertain and fractured world

by Sir Peter Gluckman
SCIENCE DIPLOMACY

Sir Peter Gluckman
President, International Science Council
Director, Koi Tū Centre for Informed Futures

Sir Peter Gluckman’s address to the Academy of Sciences of Moldova on receiving the award of the Dimitrie Cantemir Medal.

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