"We have great divisions, tremendous distrust, unprecedented tensions and very great dangers in the world. We are here to help find the common values and the community to solve those tensions, to overcome the world's crisis, especially to find peace and harmony among the nations of the world," said Jeffrey D. Sachs, president of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and professor of economics at Columbia University. He believes having common values in the world is a "matter of potentiality."