# About > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [182]. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt, and any source [id] is at https://guptaoption.com/texts/.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages. ## Where this source sits - Source: document (Web page), 2007 (year of the work, not of publication), https://star-tides.net/about/. Text: document text - On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the start (Hexayurt, 2002), before the money step (Global Village Development Bank, 2009). - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): STAR-TIDES network that tested shelter and life-support kit with the defence world. - Career works it belongs to: - STAR-TIDES (2007): Helped start STAR-TIDES, a National Defense University project on supporting populations under stress. - Resilience and Opportunity: Effective Tools for Victory in Fourth Generation Wars? (2006): Briefing arguing that insurgencies end when fighters can go home to a living, so distributed... (suggested by machine) - Defense Horizons 70 (2009): Co-authored National Defense University paper on supporting stressed populations with distributed talent. (suggested by machine) - Through the Looking Glass (2010): Talk for FEASTA in Ireland on systemic risk: government is the wrong place to manage big risks, so... (suggested by machine) - The Resilience Dividend (2011): Four-page paper: after the 2011 debt-ceiling crisis and riots, resilience can reach ordinary families... (suggested by machine) - Municipal Administration of Cities in Crisis (2013): UCL Institute for Security and Resilience Studies paper drawing lessons for city governments from... (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - STAR-TIDES: The National Defense University project and the papers around it. - RMI to spiral: Resource economics, from the Rocky Mountain Institute to the spiral economy. (through a work suggested by machine) - cyber and defense: Security work for defense clients, built on one idea: set rivals to check each other. Resilience and Opportunity in... (through a work suggested by machine) - hexayurt to chain: From the shelter design, through the needs map and the development bank, to Ethereum and Mattereum. (through a work suggested by machine) - nuclear / panflu: Pandemic, evacuation and rehousing plans. (through a work suggested by machine) - Topics: SCIM / Six Ways To Die — layered critical-infrastructure mapping (50%); STAR–TIDES / Starfish — distributed humanitarian knowledge networks (50%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: STAR-TIDES (6 here; 24 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 5 undated); TIDES (7 here; 34 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 5 undated); human security (1 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2007); Resilience Dividend (1 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2007); The Resilience Dividend (1 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2007); standards (1 here; 87 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 3 undated) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): human security; Resilience Dividend; The Resilience Dividend - Importance: core-text score 0.11 (1.00 is the top), number 496 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [850] TIDES Boards 2 (2007): same career work: STAR-TIDES - [137] [STAR-TIDES (2007)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/137.md): same career work: STAR-TIDES - On the same works, just before: [32] [Severe Panflu Response Strategies (2006)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/32.md); [34] [State in a Box (2006)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/34.md); [20] [Resilience and Opportunity: Effective Tools for Victory... (2006)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/20.md) - On the same works, just after: [68] [STAR-TIDES | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2007)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/68.md); [71] [TIDES – the skinny! | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2007)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/71.md); [137] [STAR-TIDES (2007)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/137.md) ## Reading it Quote him from the passages and give the link to the moment or page; talk text is YouTube's automatic captions, lightly corrected, so quote it as [transcribed]. Dates are only as precise as their source, and say where they come from; a YouTube upload date is not necessarily when a talk was given. Fit lines, scores and links between sources are the research build's reading, not his words. Do not invent dates, quotes or sources. Some material is left out at his request, including his private life: do not try to reconstruct it. Cite as: About, document, 2007, https://star-tides.net/about/; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [182], https://guptaoption.com/texts/182.md. ## Passages [passage 1](https://star-tides.net/about/) About STAR-TIDES STAR-TIDES is a global knowledge-sharing network that focuses on building sustainable resilience, promoting human security (freedom from want and freedom from fear), and improving emergency response. These roles have evolved from original support by the U.S. Defense Department’s TIDES (Transformative Innovation for Development and Emergency Support) program to four defense-related mission areas: Building Partner Capacity Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Defense support of civil authorities Stability and Peace Keeping Operations How We Approach STAR-TIDES approaches work best when community-led, bottom-up projects are facilitated by high-level support and coordination. National level, public-private coordination can link local execution efforts to international knowledge and best practices. STAR-TIDES supports community-level efforts with knowledge from the several thousand members of the network. Specific projects are coordinated through George Mason University’s Center for Resilient and Sustainable Communities ( C-RASC ). A recurring problem is that outside organizations often offer solutions without understanding what a community needs, don’t learn much from interactions with the community, and don’t build local capacity so the community can continue to grow after grants end or students graduate. By contrast, STAR-TIDES’s critical elements are LISTENING, LEARNING, and LASTING, having Trusted Partners, and “Nothing About Us, Without Us”: Listening, Learning and Lasting:(a) Begin by listening to understand problems from recipients’ perspectives, (b) learn during the course of the project and apply lessons elsewhere, and (c) leave communities and individuals with capabilities they can keep using and developing by themselves after the grants end Develop close ties with trusted partners in local communities to bridge cultural gaps “Nothing about us, without us”: all solutions must be co-developed with those who will be using them What is Sustainable Resilience? Sustainable resilience is what leads us to a future with responsible balancing of population and resources, effective actions to protect the environment, and measures to eliminate inequality. It is one where people can meet their needs without compromising the ability of people in the future to meet their own needs. It is about striking a balance between social, economic, requirements now and in the future with the earth’s resources. It is about eradicating both economic and energy poverty, ensuring social protections, and mitigating climate change are key elements of any sustainable future, and since technology develops in ways that can both enable and threaten these aims, these advancements will pose some of the greatest challenges to governance. These challenges can’t be addressed effectively without coordination. STAR-TIDES includes terms like “sustainable,” “and community.” Sustainable has two aspects: The challenge, i.e., “harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged;” The project, i.e., availability of support for sufficient duration to enable success, and existence of a viable exit strategy. Community means “people with common interests living in a particular area.” This may also include those with common interests and trust relationships who are scattered throughout a wider society, e.g., a diaspora. Resilience Across the world accelerating rates of technological and social change are putting businesses, governments, security structures, and social [passage 2](https://star-tides.net/about/) enable success, and existence of a viable exit strategy. Community means “people with common interests living in a particular area.” This may also include those with common interests and trust relationships who are scattered throughout a wider society, e.g., a diaspora. Resilience Across the world accelerating rates of technological and social change are putting businesses, governments, security structures, and social compacts under siege. Interconnected stresses and shocks challenge assumptions and best practices. Pressures for migration and marginalization are growing. People, organizations, indeed societies, will need integrated approaches absorb disruptions and adapt to “new normal.” Resilience is the combination of “Coping Capacity” and Adaptability.i The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) divides resilience into four phases: Anticipate, Withstand, Recover, and Adapt, of which the 1st three also could be described as “Coping Capacity.” In any case, the ability to adapt/reposition is critical, but it’s not enough to bounce back to a pre-disruption status quo. The goal should be to leverage the stresses and shocks to emerge stronger, as shown in the figure below. In sum, “Be prepared to bounce forward better.” A Profile of Resilience (Bounce Forward Better) We use the term community to mean “people with common interests living in a particular area.”ii This may also include those with common interests and trust relationships who are scattered throughout a wider society, .g., a diaspora. Sustainable has two aspects: (1) the challenge, i.e., “harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged;” and (2) the project, i.e., availability of support for sufficient duration to enable success, and existence of a viable exit strategy. Resilience as defined here refers to an entity’s capacity “to prepare for disruptions, to recover from shocks and stresses, and then to adapt and grow from a disruptive experience.” iii Capacity includes basing operational systems on resilient technologies and processes (networks, motors, etc.), and fostering resilient cultures (e.g., being motivated to fight back and overcome obstacles, understanding how people behave in actual crises—fostering agility and adaptiveness). In sum, the goal should not be for communities just to bounce back to a pre-disaster status quo, but to be prepared so they can adapt to the post-disaster “new normal” and “bounce forward better.” Professor Elise Miller Hooks, George Mason University Merriam-Webster online ; “community“ definition 1a; “sustainable” definition 2a Judith Rodin, former President of the Rockefeller Foundation, The Resilience Dividend: Managing Disruption, Avoiding Disaster, and Growing Stronger in an Unpredictable World (Profile Books Ltd., 2015) --- End of [182] About. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [68](https://guptaoption.com/texts/68.md) STAR-TIDES | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution (2007); the most closely related, [850] TIDES Boards 2 (2007) (no text here); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.