Thank you very much for that.
I want to take a couple of minutes to ask you about your current research area. You're researching economic acceleration, and I'd like you to give the committee an appreciation of the importance of economics in the context of a conflict zone or immediate post-conflict reconstruction, both at the micro level and at the broader national and even international levels.
Trade tends to persist in conflict. In fact, conflicts are often exacerbated by trade relationships that have formed and that people aren't willing to back away from. How important is economics as a discipline for a committee like this to understand peacekeeping well?