thanks for joining us. my pleasure. you talk about the attributes of these rumors. you give four examples, information states that people share, considered of interest to others that are not verified and, perhaps most importantly, that help people deal with ambiguity or threat. talk to us about that and the idea that rumoring is at some level a coping mechanism for us. sure. people are interactive, social creatures. we don t like things that are unexplained. we like events that make sense to us. and it s a very natural coping mechanism that we have to try and figure things out and to make sense of things. so we re sense makers. and secondly human beings are naturally social and so we put those things together and we have social sense making and this s essentially what rumor is. we re all in this together and we re trying to collectively
results people on the streets are demanding. sam from the huffington post is with us. he has a question for you robin. you have to have institutions in place to make the post make this work. in libya, the institutions are going to matter when talking how much money to send into the country, where does it go, who gets it. the international organizations have to play in setting up the institutions and what could we do in a pragmatic sense making sure we have the structures in place so it goes smoothly. from benghazi, you saw the civil society, creation of parties. i think that will expand once tripoli is under the control of the interim council. the international community will play a role, i think, in libya more in terms of technical advice, getting their oil