ABSTRACT
Trust is deeply rooted in people's values, visions and personal experiences. At the same time it is fluid, moulded both deliberately and organically by the complex interactions of people's internal and external worlds. At one level it can provide a stable basis on which to build longterm relationships, shared values, and pursue common aims for mutual benefit. At another level, trust can be an unstable cocktail of fact and fiction, of utopian desire and pathological hopelessness.
