Too often we have been confused and puzzled by ‘their’ behaviours, ‘their’ narrative and more often view ‘their’ actions as irrational. We often ask ‘Why are you unable to accept our aid?”, ‘why are you unable to accept that democracy is a better path?’, ‘why is education not important?’.

More often the truth is that it is we who are being irrational and the behaviour being demonstrated is perfectly rational, the actions being taken perfectly sensible responses to chaotic environments, poverty, social conflict and any number of of other levers of instability that we continually viewed as a symptoms without investigating and understanding the causes.