Home Again

I'm back off the road for a week or so - I have one work trip down to Jacksonville later this month, and then Julia and I are going to get lost in the UK for a week around Thanksgiving.

Jeff is on his way to Vienna next week for the World Justice Forum. We have become a featured program for the Forum, and the kids from Recife (the ones on the PeaceTones Brazil collection) will perform at the Forum plenary. We have an intern going along to take photos and video, so I hope to be able to post something from the Forum soon.

The proposal from the SMU class related to training women in Afghanistan in the area of micro-commerce and dispute resolution is going forward with some other material that IBO has put in the mix for grants through the National Defense University. One element of those proposals involved the use of eBay's Community Court software, adapted for mobile phones, and serving as the basis of e-Jurga's (the traditional dispute mechanism that resolves 80% of the disputes in the country). It's all good stuff and we are keeping our fingers crossed that we will be able to follow through with the projects.