Well, hello my friends and welcome back to my channel. Today, we're working on a plan with me. I don't even know the dates. We're working on Monday, August 13th through Sunday, August 19th. If you guys didn't watch my last plan with me video, this is what I had done. I am now doing exclusively back planning for personal and safety reasons, but I feel like, and the feedback I've gotten from you guys, especially on this spread, was that you really like how full things look and that I can kinda talk about my week and chat about things or whatever. So I feel like this is gonna be a long one too. I think all the plan with me is gonna be kinda long, moving forward, just because I have a whole week of stuff to put in there and it's not just kinda like, oh, here's my plan, here's when I'm going to work and here's when it's more or less everything, which is kinda nice. Because you guys get to see a more detailed version of what I'm actually doing versus what I think I'm going to do. So anyways, all right, so I grabbed this washi from my shop. It's a really pretty, kinda like tropical looking washi. It's kinda janky on the edge because last time I used it, I did not cut it very well, but that's my own personal problem, clearly. So whoopsie. So I thought this would be a nice color this week or like colors to use this week, just cause it's yellow and then I'm gonna be using, if I need to, I'm not sure if I'm gonna need this, but I brought out a little blue one also from my shop, if you wanna check it out. And then, I don't know, I kinda like using washi that has a lot of color in it recently. Just because I feel like I'm not so hung up on everything being so matchy that I can kinda use a bunch of colors in the planner. Wow, these are like not straight. Clearly a professional guys, clearly. And I do get questions on this little guy. This is a clip and bookmark from Aaron Condren and this is just one of their color or pattern ones that you can get, oh my gosh. I can't cut and washi or can't talk and washi. See, I can't even do it this way. Oh my gosh, whatever. Oh, goodness gracious. All right, so first thing I want to do, like I did last week is grab my Christiane Designs binder. If you guys are interested in how I made this, I will try to see if I can go back in the archives and find my Christiane Designs binder, like putting it together. I did it a long time ago, but y'all seem to always be interested every time I pull this out. And yes, I realize I have like a legit problem. I need to go to my little functional tab. That's where the ones are that I want. Here we go. Okay, so I want to use these and all right, I think I have enough on that one that I wanna use. Okay, urgh, didn't wanna get my finger stuck in there. But that would not be the first time that that's happened if it did happen. So I have been posting every day and you guys seem to really like it. I've been trying to like figure out a way to not post like seven days of planner videos, but kind of do something a little bit different, kind of mix it up a little bit because that's kind of just how my life is. So anyway, let's put in what I posted this past week. Okay, so here are all of the videos that I posted this week. On Monday I posted the Minnesota Planner Addicts vlog, which I absolutely loved going to that. That was so much fun. I did that last Saturday. And let's see, I did some donation tracking of how I track my donations.  And in the US you can do that. I know I had a lot of international people ask me why I do that, that in their country they don't, sometimes they don't even have to file income taxes because it's kind of all done for you or doesn't require or whatever the case may be. And yeah, I do itemize. I've been itemizing for a couple of years now and it does actually pay for me to itemize my taxes. So yeah, and then I posted my plan with me and then cruise review. So I did that. And then let's see, you guys seemed to really like that. It was a really long video, but it was definitely something that you all had requested and I wanted to answer as many questions as my mom and I could possibly answer. I think you guys just like to see my mom though, which is totally fine. And then I revamped my entry closet which you guys saw on Friday. And then I did a home project, like a home improvement tracker, which I'm so excited to use. And I am just, I got the bug already and it's not even 2019 yet, but I am just really excited to do my office is what I'm really excited about. And then today, which is Sunday, but this will go up I think Wednesday or Thursday of this week. I posted my manicure tutorial. I've been wearing a lot more like nail polish in my videos. So a lot of you guys have been asking like if I get them done and where do I go? Or if I do them myself, what do I use? And you know me, I'm on a budget.  All right, so I have a lot of things to put in this week. I'm gonna be using my new Coffee Break Planner binder, which I think I had just posted about this. This has actually been a system that I've had for a little while, but I just really, really love this. Sorry if the frame looks a little bit different. I had to take a little intermission here. My friend called and we had to chat about some things for a few minutes. So anyway, getting back into this, while I was chatting with her, I put in a few things. So I had a couple of appointments this week. So I had a 10 a.m. appointment with Chad. And I'm just gonna put these in randomly cause I already have them written down on my Coffee Break Planner stucco's. All right, and then I had a 1 p.m. with Travis. And then over here, I'm just gonna put in my ganas gracious. I don't know. There we go. Okay, all right, so let's go in order like I normally do cause it kind of stresses me out to like put things down. I don't know why. Does it stress you guys out to do that? It stresses me out to do that. All right, and okay, so over here, let me use one of these plan to plan sticker co girls. Put that right there. So I stopped at my P.O. box and I returned a box to Nordstrom in the mail as well. If you guys saw my Nordstrom haul, I returned the gray shoes as well as the black jeans because it just, the black jeans, I don't know. They didn't fit very well for some random reason. So I was like, you know what? I'm not gonna keep going with stuff like that. And yeah, like old me would have probably just kept it and been like, oh yeah, whatever, like no problem. I'll just keep it. Maybe I'll wear them at some point. I'm like, you know what? If I don't like absolutely love them, there's kind of like no point, you know? So it was time to get rid of them and mail them back so I can get my money back for them. All right, so this is from, let's see, stickers, washi and more on Etsy. And I did like all the laundry this day. So put this in. So laundry. All right, let's throw guest room stuff. All right, let me actually put this down just a, just a scotch here. Oh, I kind of ripped up the paper a little bit. Oh well, that's my own fault. All right, and then I had to make a few phone calls. All right, so I had to call K and then mom. So that is that. All right, and then in the morning, I'm gonna use one of these. I used this last week and I do not remember where these are from and I am sorry. I did get a couple of comments asking if I remembered by the time I posted and no, I don't. You know, I've been doing this decorative planning thing for a long time and I don't know guys, I'm really, really sorry, I wish I knew. But I needed to text and email some people and I got a reply back from everybody so I'm just gonna check them off because it makes my life feel good. All right, and then I did a little shopping. After that, let's see here. Before I put in the shopping, I'm gonna put this in. All right, so I went to dinner with my mom and aunt and my grandparents down here, right about here. Right about here-ish, that looks good. And then that day I ran to Marshall's to grab something and take my Adriana Piper sticker, which this basically looks like my camera and I did a little filming before dinner. And then in the evening, I spent my evening editing, which is basically most evenings in my world. Let's put that down here. And I love these stickers from Piper Paper Company. I just like love these little laptops, so cute. Okay, so now we're finally on a Wednesday. All this video is gonna be long. All right, so I got these, I think from Design Pandemonium about a year ago or so and it's like these cute little lined pages kind of a look. So I'm gonna use this, I think I'll use the purple one. All right, so I took photos for Facebook Marketplace and put them on the internet and I have sold a few things at this point. I have sold, actually I did it one more thing than this but that's all right, I'm not gonna make a new sticker for it. I'm having so many troubles. Oh, here we go. I just need to be smarter than the sticker paper. So anyway, in the Facebook Marketplace, I have a desk, chair, bedding, lamps and then I also put a cart on there. As well, that was kind of like a last minute edition but anyway, so I have now sold my chair and the cart but I haven't sold the desk. The desk is quite expensive. It's actually like a pottery barn, printers. I think it's the printer's rectangular desk is what it is. They still actually sell it on potterybarn.com but it sells for like, I don't know, it's on sale potterybarn.com but they sell it for like 800 something dollars which is like kind of ridiculous but you know, mine's clearly cheaper than that. The chair, my friend Kayla actually came and picked that up today and then the bedding and then the lamps. I actually have somebody interested in the lamps but they can't come and pick it up till like pretty late so I don't know, we'll see, we'll see and then let's see. Okay, so Wednesday I did podcast prepping and I'm gonna use one of these again.  I had to like sign a release and do all that fun stuff so I had to sign a document, send over some information, I had to send over some photos as well and approve the questions or the things that we were going like the topics we were gonna be talking about. Just, you know, just wanted to make sure I was comfortable talking about some of those things so that should, I'm not sure of the release date yet but I will let you guys know more details when I know but it should be up in September or maybe October but I'll let you guys know. So make sure to follow me on like Facebook and Instagram and I will make an announcement there for sure. It's always hard to make an announcement on my videos because I do pre-film so many videos but anyway, that's gonna be happening. All right, I had another phone call. I don't know about you guys but I really hate writing on Wednesdays because I'm right handed. I'm sure all the left handed people really hate writing on Thursdays. Oh goodness. And then I did some more filming and I did a organize my junk drawer. So that, I don't know when that's gonna go up to be honest. I have no idea. Actually, hold on. Since I hate writing so much on that day, let's use an event sticker. So let me grab one of these. Here we go. This is the first one that's up there because today we don't really have a specific color theme which, why did I pull this off?  Okay. So I'll put that right here, junk drawer and then we'll put this little camera right on top because you know, the cuteness factor and everything. All right, so now we are into a Thursday. All right, that's done. I always have like this pile of stickies at the end which I don't really know if you guys feel this way but like to me, this is like really satisfying. Maybe you guys don't find it satisfying but I really do. All right, so Thursday morning I filled orders so I'll put this right here, say package orders. And then I got a microphone delivery. I was so excited about this, you guys. Like you don't even know. Actually, I can show you, it's sitting right here. I got this bad boy. I'll link it on Amazon if you all are interested but this is a blue, I think they call them the snowball. Yeah, snowball ice. And I'm actually use this for the podcast that I was in because fun fact about me, I absolutely hate earbuds and that's kind of what you needed for chatting through the internet system that we were doing. And I know a lot of earbuds have like the little microphone mechanism but I have those like Beats headphones like those Dr. Dre Beats headphones that don't have a microphone attached to them. And I've been interested in getting one of these for a while but I was like, you know what? Now is the time. Now is the time, I actually need it, let's do it. So I was excited that I got that in the right day because I did order it on Amazon and it said that it would be delivered on Thursday but sometimes that doesn't always happen. So I don't ever know. But I was very excited, I was so excited. All right, and then I had some more emails.  And then, all right, so I'm gonna put this in but we podcasted for quite a while. It was awesome, it was so much fun and I'm so excited for you guys to hear it. I'm so, so excited. All right, so it was quite a while. Let me put this up here. And I am actually gonna pull up on my iTunes. Okay, so this is the podcast I'm actually going to be on. It's with Jessica McWilliams but it's the Planner Lifestyle Podcast and I have an iPhone. So I found this on my podcast. So if you search Planner Lifestyle Podcast, I will try to link it down below. I'm not sure how I can link it below but maybe I'll talk to Jess and see if there's a way to do that. Currently, there is only one episode up so she doesn't have any reviews or anything just yet. Actually, no, she has one from me but anyways. So I am so pumped to be on this podcast. We talked for so long and I'm pretty sure it's gonna be a two-parter if not a three-parter but that's gonna be kind of up to her but feel free to check her out before she's gonna have a bunch of things going up. I think she said she's gonna have like a weekly podcast for season one and I think, I don't know how many episodes she's doing in season one but I am so excited and I'm so proud of Jess. She is a local Minnesota planner girl as well so just, you know, I feel like she's really found her groove with things too. She just asked really interesting questions that no one's ever asked me before.  Like, you guys know.  I get like kind of deep in it too so you kind of see like a little bit more of like a behind the scenes, kind of like a sensitive favorite daughter Emily a little bit where I do talk about some of the issues that I have personally as well as things that people might not necessarily know about me if that makes sense. So yeah, I mean it gets deep but it's good. I think it was really good. It was very like cathartic in a way too so I don't know, I just, I had a great time talking with her. I come like that, so much fun. Okay, so that, oh that is not it for Thursday. Hold on. All right, and then my brother was here. He stayed overnight on Thursday. Yeah, okay. I had to think about that for a moment. My goodness gracious. I do not remember, actually I do remember what shop this is from. However, they are no longer in business but if you search like sleeping bags, you might be able to find them. So I'm going to put this right here. All right, so he stayed with me that night and then had to run off in the morning and do his thing. Okay, and then I kind of like, everything's on top of each other on Friday. Oh well, whatever. So on Friday, I went to the post office. So I mailed out orders and then I also had a giveaway that I also mailed out, which was good. So that got done. All right, I'm gonna put a little clock here and at 1130, let's see here, 1130. I don't know if I can put this all in one line but I'm gonna try. All right, whoo, that fit. All right, cool. I always get paranoid when I'm trying to put things on and like write it on the page. Do you guys feel like that sometimes? I feel like that sometimes. All right, I'm like using all the icons today. So whatevs. Okay, and then here I needed to deal with some absents stuff. So I needed to update a thing on there. Okay, and then I listed all the items. So I'm gonna put one of these in again. Oh, like this because I listed all of them. And actually doing the listings was, I mean, it was easy but it was just like, oh my gosh. Like took a while, you know? Okay, so that was kind of my day there. And then usually in the evenings I do edit but I don't always like write that down. Okay, so what did I do yesterday? I filmed like a lot of things. What did I film? Oh my gosh, it was a lot y'all. Here, we're gonna put this in. Put another one of these guys in. It was basically like a filming and editing day yesterday. All right, so what did I do? Okay, so I did my budget, my September layout, a planner first impressions. What else did I film? All right, so that's all the things that I filmed yesterday. So you guys gotta have a little sneak peek as to like some of the things that are coming up. All right, and I'm gonna use some of these without a tweezer, I know. The horror because I wanna check them off. It makes my life feel good.  I'm sure you do.  If you've made it this far in the video, you're definitely a planner person or you aspire to be a planner person maybe. Yeah, so I've got a budget coming up. I've got my September monthly layout coming up. I've got another planner review coming up. And then I did a kitchen awkward storage video that I think you guys might enjoy. I've been having some major issues with some of my stuff lately of how to store things. I mean, I know it's such a trivial thing but it is so difficult sometimes to really figure out what you need from your storage, you know what I mean? Like it's just sometimes difficult. Oh, then my mom came over but then I edited for the duration of the evening. Did my mom come over yesterday? Yeah, my mom came over on yesterday. Was it yesterday? I don't know. She either came over Friday or yesterday. We're gonna put it in anyway. All right, I'm gonna use one of these little houses from plannerpress.net, cool. You know what, now that I put that in, I think it was on Friday. Oh, well, I think you guys don't care. Oh, because I'm deciding not to care either. Oh, well, it's fine, right? Right, all right, I think I'm gonna use this. Kayla came over and picked up that chair that I listed on Facebook. All right, and Doyle had the most amazing time with Kayla because Kayla just wanted to eat him up and he was just in hog heaven because he's like, oh, pet me, love me. Basically, he loves anybody that pays attention to him and it always makes it seem like I don't pay attention to him when people come over. It's just kind of funny. All right, and before she came over, I did some editing. So I'll just write edit right here. Actually didn't get to finish my edit, which is sad but I will do that after this. Oh my gosh, come on, there we go. I have to be smarter than the sticker paper. So anyway, all right, so edit, put that right there. Here, I'll put a little heart, even though I usually like editing but sometimes it's a major pain but that's okay. And then now I am doing my plan with me video. So I'll put that right here. So she basically left and I started doing this. So it was very exciting. All right, and I'll put this little planner Steve because he's got like a little stack of, I don't know, oh, a stack of CAD stickers which is pretty fitting for any of my plan with me is because I use a lot of CAD stickers because I have them and why not? And then today I will probably be spending the duration of my day editing. So I'm gonna put that in and then we're probably gonna be done here. All right, so that is going to be it for my week from August 13th through August 19th. If you guys like these plan with me videos and you want me to show more, make sure to give this video a thumbs up or you could leave me a comment down below. I will source and list all of the planner and sticker shops that I can down in the bottom bar, not the bottom bar, but the description down below. If y'all are curious, I do use an Aaron Condren hourly version and it's the on the go life planner. This is the one for 2018 only, so like January through December. So I have not moved into my other planner just yet, but I do have it. So I hope you all are having a wonderful week. I will be back next week to share with you all of the fun upcoming plans that I am going to be doing and I hope you all are having a great day and I will see y'all in the next one. Bye guys. Well, folks, it's time to kick it off school. Oh, so you can feel cool. Ha ha ha ha ha, give it to me baby. Ha ha, yeah.


Good afternoon. How are you? So you have just finished calendar and we are getting ready for ABC When we're doing ABC and you are sitting on the rug.  Give me a thumbs up if you are doing those things nice We are going to go ahead and check our alphabet because you just did that with Miss Mary So let's go ahead and let's look at the letters. Here's what your job Your job is to know your alphabet letters And I want you to look at the letters tell me the name of the letters the sound in the picture with them a a apple B Boots C car C D duck duck E a elephant fish G guh guitar G guh guitar H house I I glue J jacket K kite M O-Octopus P penguin Q queen rainbow snowman teat turtle U a umbrella the van W whale Y yarn Z zebra Nice work. You will get to practice doing your ABC matching them and telling your friends the name of them the sound and the letters when you are working over in small group And a little bit apples. That's going to be your job Let's do our daily message. Let's look at this. Let's talk to each other and let's think about print I hope you are listening when Miss Mary was talking about calendar because I'm going to ask you a question in a minute dear class today is I Didn't even have to ask you you knew what it was today is Wednesday Wednesday I Don't remember how to write Wednesday. What is that letter? It is W. Do you remember how to make a W? I Start here and I slant down slant up slant down slant up Wednesday Wednesday is a funny word Today is Wednesday Now I have some sentences and I'm going to choose someone who has really been working hard And they're gonna tell me something that they can do I want you all to think about something that you can do just one word something that you can do Camilla, I like the way you are listening. What can you do? I? Can hop Camilla can hop. Let's write her sentence. I can hop Can you hop? We can your friend miss PJ. Okay, let's read this message from Mary beginning to end Dear class today is Wednesday. I Can hop Can you hop? We can your friend miss PJ So some of you are gonna get to make more sentences like that Grape you are gonna work with miss Mary and she's gonna ask you what can you do and you are gonna write sentences like that for miss Mary Now when I was hearing this that made me think of something I know a poem and I wonder if you will say that poem with me. Will you stand up, please? It's a poem. We've done before it's called we can do you remember that Okay, can you do it with me?  We can stop stop stop. We can nod our head for yes We can shake our head for no we can bend our knees a little bit and sit down very Slow now that poem has some rhyming words in it and we're gonna talk about rhyming words Rhyming is very very important because that's a skill where you're listening to the end of words And you're wanting to know if they sound the same when you are good at rhyming that's gonna help you for reading and writing and spelling when you get older so that poem has got some rhyming words and What I'm gonna do right now is I'm going to clap just on the rhyming words, okay So can you do that? We're gonna say the poem.  We can stop stop stop Hop and stop. Did you hear that hop? Stop they rhymed. Let's do the rest of the poem We can nod our head for yes.  You could hear those rhyming words. No Slow Those are rhyming words. They are the same. All right, let's do a little practice. Let's do copycat Okay, I'm gonna do some rhyming words I've got a list right here that I'm gonna do some of these words are rhyming words Some of them are not you're gonna give me a thumbs up if they rhyme. You're gonna give me a thumbs down if they don't pie high Did you hear that they end the same? Miss this Thumbs up thumbs down. Yes Make shoe make that doesn't rhyme. Does it girl curl Yes, that rhymes boy happy boy that doesn't rhyme does it Sun fun Very nice. Okay. I think we're ready to work in groups. So here's what we're going to do when you hear the fruit salad music I want bananas.


My name is Robert Lamb. I'm the director of the program on crisis conflict and cooperation here at CSIS. Thanks to all of you for filling up this room today, and thanks as well to all of you who are watching live from the internet. This will be the last C3 conference, and will soon be known as the old CSIS building. In two months, we're moving to a new building on 1616 Rhode Island Avenue, and I personally am very excited. It's got amazing new conference facilities, not to mention nice new offices. There's an addendum in the program that should be there. I would just have you take note of some of the program changes that we've had to undertake due to some unforeseen circumstances. We have a great agenda today. Everyone who will be speaking today, all of the panelists, most of you here in this room and watching from the internet live today, are all involved in a very interesting field, involved in somewhere or another in working to reduce violence and conflict, whether the risk of violence to mitigate its effects to prevent it. The field, broadly speaking, has a wide number of sub-disciplines, whether you call it post-conflict reconstruction, transition, stabilization, consolidation. There's a lot of different words, peace building as well. But all of these fields have one thing in common. Whisk away under tight security of those who are reaching for their rights. Would all of us in these different sub-disciplines of peace building, stabilization, reconstruction, transition, and consolidation? What we have in common is that the demand for civilian powers is not going away. Public opinion, will wax and wane. We were for humanitarian intervention before we were against it. People were for counterinsurgency before they were against it. The media might be with us, they might be against us. Congress might be providing more support, might be providing less support. But the truth is there's always gonna be conflicts. And the demand for the United States to do something about them isn't going away. That doesn't mean the United States should be the world's police, doesn't mean the United States should be intervening everywhere in the world. It does mean that there's always gonna be pressure for the United States to do so, and there's always gonna be temptation for the United States to do so. Which means that once in a while, the United States is gonna intervene somehow. Now, there's a clear preference in our data set and through the broad experience of most of people in our field that the top political leadership of the United States prefers to use civilian power to respond to these crises before they aspire out of control. We prefer not to use military power. There's some notable exceptions, but the overall broad trend is clear. The problem is that the support given to civilian institutions to respond to and support transitions, stabilization and reconstruction work is really pretty poor. So the demand for what we do in this field is not going away, and so we really better learn how to, as a society, to support civilian power. So that's the public message that we wanna send, that the American people should not lose faith in this field. They seem to be. Another message of this conference though, and it's gonna be a theme throughout the day, is that while we've had some successes in this field, we really do need to do a better job of giving Americans a reason to have faith in what we do. In 1927, there's an economist named Alan Young, and what he said is that even an industrial dictator with all the power to move capital and labor in the world could not compress a half century of normal progress into just a few years. That's a lesson that we've been learning over and over for 85 years. In 1949, the World Bank said that development and reconstruction of any society has to be led by the people in that society itself, and those of us in the outside world who wanna support that can only support that, and we should coordinate with each other, and we should coordinate with the people in that society and their government. That's a lesson we've been learning for 64 years. The World Bank also said in 1949 that it's not just the capacity of the people who live in that society that's a constraint on their ability to reconstruct and develop and stabilize, it's also donors' blindness, our ambitions, our objectives, our assumptions, sometimes our arrogance. That sometimes we don't understand what's actually happening in the places that we're trying to benefit, and so we implement things that we know how to do and they don't work and then we wonder why, and we've been learning that lesson for 64 years as well. Now in those 64 years, we've done a lot of really great things in the world, not just in Europe and Japan, but more recently in the Balkans. There's been great progress in Colombia and many other places as well, but the truth is we keep learning the same lessons over and over. I was joking to a colleague last week that there's really only about 13 lessons in our field and we just keep learning them over and over again every decade, we just call them something else. And the truth is if you read the 1927 Allen Young, the 1949 World Bank, even Albert Hirschman in 1965, who said that what we think are constraints in a society that we're trying to help might not actually be constraints. The human capacity for creativity and survival is pretty enormous and what we think should work in a place might not be what locals think can work in that place. That's another lesson that we've been learning for decades. All of these lessons sound suspiciously familiar if you read the Paris Declaration, the Accra Agreement, Busan commitments, any of these documents that we keep coming out with every few years. So I'd like to humbly submit a research agenda for our field. Whenever we do a program evaluation, whenever we do social science research about aid effectiveness, whenever we collect best practices and lessons learned, let's not just end with the policy recommendation that we should do X next time, where X is coordinate with a local population or let the host society take the lead or fill in any one of the 13-ish lessons that we all know. We should do that, obviously. But don't stop there. Do a little more research. Ask, why didn't we do that this time? It's not like we didn't know. What we need to do is research on our own institutions, not only the good technical capacity assessments and needs assessments and political economy assessments of the recipient societies. It would be useful for us, for our own research agendas, to look at the political economy of our own organizations, understand what's preventing us from understanding local population, preventing us from implementing a lot of the things that every few years we tell ourselves we need to learn how to do. Because the truth is, conflicts aren't going away. We're gonna be getting involved in these things for many, many years over and over again. Our data set showed that about every two and a half weeks is a new political crisis in the world. It's rare for the news to actually demonstrate that, but this summer we've had Syria, Turkey, Egypt, about every two and a half weeks. It kind of matches our data very nicely. There's a lot of other topics that our field should be looking at. One of them is gender. What you'll notice on our agenda today is that it's pretty male dominated. A lot of the research in our field in dealing with gender treats women as victims and there's a pretty rich and growing literature on that topic. There's a fascinating small literature on women as perpetrators of violence and conflict. It's very fascinating. And there's a new and growing literature and interest on women as peacemakers in conflict areas. And that's a line of research that really should be pursued pretty vigorously. Last week the Fund for Peace released their failed state index and Christa Hendry, who's here today, said that the three Ds should be placed by four Ds. That it's not just development, diplomacy, and defense, but the fourth D should be data. With the release of the new GDELT data set, a quarter of a billion data points. Who did what, when, where, with what attitude? Geocoded precisely. This new era of big data. This is a new world. Mirror correlations and regressions are not gonna be enough. If you're going out in the field and you're collecting data and you're not geocoding it, you're living in 1995. If you then take that data and fail to share it with other people in a way that's accessible and aggregable, you're not being helpful. This goes to all of us. We've collected data. Now we've tried to make our data set available online as well. But sharing data, aggregating our experiences, and especially geocoding it so we can pinpoint where it's happening and understand better the subnational space-soul dynamics of what's happening in our field is gonna be critically important and it's something that we can no longer afford to avoid. Finally, there's been a lot of interest in the private sector, recognizing that in fragile states and in conflict and violent areas that official development assistance has not made nearly enough progress there as it has in other places. And so now there's a lot of interest in wondering, well, maybe the private sector can do something that the public sector can't. There is indeed private sector activity taking place in conflict zones. We don't always recognize it as such. It's informal, it's done by illicit actors, it's done in sectors that we don't quite understand, but it does happen. But we also need to be cautious. We can't believe that just increasing private sector activity in a fragile area or a conflict zone is going to automatically lead to good development outcomes. We have to study much more closely what the potential for positive spillovers are. How do you capture the positive spillovers? How do you avoid the negative risks of increased private sector activity in conflict areas? Now these are topics that our program is actively engaged in. These are topics that our program is actively fundraising around. And these are our topics that a lot of us should be collaborating with each other a lot more on. And I want to encourage that. So today as you listen to all of the speakers, as you raise questions, as you talk with each other over coffee, I want you to think too closely about the two basic messages of the conference today, which is the American people can't lose faith in this field because the truth is the demand for this field isn't going away. And we in this field need to be worthy of their faith by continuing to rethink how we operate, what we're trying to accomplish, how we're studying it. So welcome. We have an exciting program today. And thank you for all of your attendance. Thank you as well to IRD and AEcom for co-sponsoring with us today. Thank you, Arthur and David, for your comments. And thank you, Dr. Hamry, for opening up today.