And finally, of course, you have close integrative systems, like in the Nordic community. It's been happening of course. Here in California, the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation is a wonderful model for the country, because every state now has a state university system, and California is the first one to introduce research and training in these fields. So I hope that the other 49 states go along. So, on the one hand, the kinds of things we've been talking about are the subject matter of peace studies.
Different schools specialize in different things.
Some will specialize in understanding how UN agencies function and others focus more on nonviolent behavior and others more on mediation. Each program needs to follow its own strengths. But having the National Peace Institute now means a national legitimization for training in this other type of analysis of conflict situations and training in mediation skills. The intention was to make it possible for soldiers to retrain into negotiation skills, away from direct military action skills, and for people in federal government to go for mid-career retraining, as well as bringing up a host of new professionals who have these new skills. So we have that social current going for us, that people are seeing that we can't just get away with threats all the time, we have to do more n egotiation.