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Only 6.8 percent of all our philanthropic giving in the U.S. right now benefits rural communities, and yet 20 percent of our population lives there.

There are more buildings that are empty or in disrepair than occupied and in use.

But in the whole county there is no coffee shop, there's no Internet cafe, there's no movie theater, there's no bookstore.

There isn't even a Walmart.

There's basically no pool of qualified teachers to pull from, and only eight percent of the people in the county have a bachelor's degree or higher.

So there isn't a big legacy in the pride of education.

So it sounds like I'm painting a really bleak picture of this place, but I promise there is good news.

And he is an absolute renegade and a visionary, and he is the reason that I now live and work there.

So at the time of being invited down there, we were based in San Francisco, and so we were going back and forth for basically the rest of 2009, spending about half our time in Bertie County.

So fast-forward to today, and we now live there.

There's space to experiment and to weld and to test things.

There's a nobility of real, hands-on, dirt-under-your-fingernails work.

But beyond our personal reasons for wanting to be there, there is a huge need.

There is a total vacuum of creative capital in Bertie County.

There isn't a single licensed architect in the whole county.

So this is the lab at the high school, and the principal there is in love with this room.

There are thousands of these blue dots all over the county.

Right now I should say, there are only 10 percent of the houses that actually have an in-home Internet connection.

Yet, not only is there at least some good news to be told about fewer such conflicts now than two decades ago, but what is perhaps more important is that we also have come to a much better understanding of what can be done to further reduce the number of ethnic conflicts and civil wars and the suffering that they inflict.

Darfur may have slipped from the news headlines, but the killing and displacement there continues as well, and the sheer human misery that it creates is very hard to fathom.

Well, notwithstanding the gloomy pictures from the Middle East, Darfur, Iraq, elsewhere, there is a longer-term trend that does represent some good news.

Over the past two decades, since the end of the Cold War, there has been an overall decline in the number of civil wars.

To put it differently, for the civilians that suffer the consequences of ethnic conflict and civil war, there is no good war and there is no bad peace.

In some cases, there is a military victory of one side.

If there's no solution on the battlefield, three factors can account for the prevention of ethnic conflict and civil war, or for sustainable peace afterwards: leadership, diplomacy and institutional design.

And significantly, there's also a clear focus on both the rights of individuals and the rights of communities.

And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud and was buried in the blizzard.

A people's dream died there.

I have been told that there must be something we can do.

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