Fulbright-Jordan.org Is an educational exchange commission of Jordan
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When the late Senator J. William Fulbright sponsored legislation establishing the prestigious Fulbright Program, which was signed into law by President Truman on August 1, 1946, he saw a world devastated by war and awed by its newly acquired atomic power. Remembering his own overseas experience as a Rhodes Scholar, the young Senator reasoned that people and nations had to learn to think globally if the world was to avoid annihilation. He believed that if large numbers of people lived and studied in other countries, "they might develop a capacity for empathy, distaste for killing other men, and an inclination for peace."
What is most unique about this program is that it has established a global system of binational exchanges, each between the United States and a partner nation. There are 51 Binational Commissions, of which Jordan is one, administering the Fulbright Program around the world.
True binationalism was a primary objective of Senator Fulbright . "I had not wanted this to be an American program," he wrote."In each country, binational commissions were to develop the kind of program that made sense to them what kinds of students or teachers and professors should be selected, what kind of research work."
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