STAR-TIDES promotes affordable, sustainable, support to stressed populations—post-war, post-disaster, or impoverished. Situations include: Short-term or long-term, military involved, or not. It is an international research project to promote unity of effort among diverse organizations where there is no unity of control. As such it seeks to build bridges across boundaries between government, business and civil society stakeholders who are working toward common goals. The principal means are: (1) trust building and social network development, (2) sharing information and “sense-making” approaches and (3) low-cost logistic solutions.

Wading through tons of emails about our proposals in Nangarhar, thanks for all your help. Interns are brewing coffee full-time.

Come join us tomorrow and Friday for the International Aid & Trade show at the Reagan Center in Washington DC. It’s free!

Is moving along at light speed getting cost estimates for our essential services to Afghanistan (starting in Nangarhar) Project.

Hard at work editing proposals about delivering essential services to Nangarhar, despite the ditractably interesting news from Honduras.

Goings on in Istanbul, working on our 2nd newsletter, lifting heavy things…STAR-TIDES has been busy.