Mr. Baig said that Pakistan is now overwhelmed by a deepening social crisis, divisions in society, a loss of national cohesion, a crumbling economy, massive poverty, evaporating internal legitimacy and rapidly declining external credibility.
With relations between Greece and Germany now at their lowest point in the crisis, divisions have also opened up among the main EU powers over what to do about Greece after five years of bailout closed down on Tuesday and the country became the EU's first to default on loans to the International Monetary Fund.
Google's Crisis Response division has created fascinating and functional map tools for tracking Hurricane Irene in multiple ways.
Even at a time of economic crisis, the division has a €503m (£418m) order book and profits at the close of 2011, before tax and costs, of over €1.1m.
Before the crisis, the division had reviewed many portfolios in aggregate, checking on business and industry health indicators monthly or even quarterly.
Although set back by an internal leadership crisis and division among fighting cadres in 1976, the armed struggle had become militarily damaging and economically costly to South Africa by the end of the 1970s.
Hochschild proposes regional exchange programs and informal living room conversations in which people look for areas of agreement to help address the nation's "crisis of division". Ultimately, patriotism shouldn't be partisan, Hochschild said.
Even though profits at BarCap are down from £3.4bn a year ago, as a result of the turmoil in the financial markets caused by the eurozone and the US debt crisis, the division still generated £2.3bn of the total.
These conditions of crisis and division are conducive to undesirable consequences including public fear, mistrust, misinformation and non-compliance with public health directives.
It appears that when it comes to hostage crises the division that counts is not the one between hawk and dove but the one between those who must act and those who only watch.
