October 9, 2001 note: On October 7, after I updated this page, US planes attacked Afghanistan. In moments when it seems that all of our prayers and hopes for and talk of peace must always and inevitably come to nothing, it becomes even more important to battle despair and despondency by doing everything one can. For me, unable now to transform my anguish and anxiety into analytical argument, that drive begins with maintaining this page. Beyond petition, protest and prayer, what have people like me done to research and imagine alternatives that meet the feasibility and 'realism' tests that the policy world imposes? Hence the addition of a section, 'After the war', where I will try to list and link alternative models and ideas.

October 11, 2001 note: Everyday, a dozen new questions, a dozen new angles, present themselves. This page began and continues to grow, mirroring the concerns I have and those that I hear. It neither holds answers, nor every single relevant link. It is simply an aid to rumination, and an invitation to reflection. Today, I am dividing its growing contents into four sections and placing them on four pages.

October 27, 2001, note: Events overtake analysis and documentation. Today's modifications to the structure of these pages attempt to capture recent changes and anticipate others. What will become important to us, what will we need to know about, what are the things I want to raise as points of discussion—this is my best guess for today.