Transforming the crisis into an opportunity The road ahead will be difficult.
The possibility of transforming our crisis in leadership gained serious momentum that evening.
He will warn that "beggar-thy-neighbour protectionism has been a feature in transforming past crises into deep recessions" and urge Mr Obama to help forge an urgent deal on world trade in talks that have lasted seven years but now stalled.
The Tories transformed a crisis of capitalism into a crisis of public spending, and determined that the most vulnerable would make the biggest sacrifices.
But politicians didn't take it (and perhaps some didn't want to take it), instead transforming the financial crisis into a crisis of public spending.
In America, President Barack Obama formed an industry-focused task force whose mission is to transform the crisis into an opportunity.
Pilots are talking about arming themselves against terrorists, and flight attendants and booking agents have been transformed into crisis counselors for wary passengers.
The ballroom, which is the largest room within the station, could be transformed into crisis accommodation for those people, as well as a craft market where they could make and sell jewellery, art, food, clothing and other goods, Nottle said.
My focus was on humanitarian responses to armed conflict (rather than, say, natural disasters, or peace-time economic development) and on how, time and again, aid serves to cater conflicts, or to transform a crisis into the status quo.
However, if the correct steps are taken, we may be able to transform this crisis into an opportunity, and achieve progress in areas which we failed to tackle during the boom years.
