The World Development Report 2011 on conflict, security and development will look at conflict as a challenge to economic development. It will analyze the nature, causes and development consequences of modern violence and highlight lessons learned from efforts to prevent or recover from violence. Between two thirds and three quarters of the children without access to school, infants dying and mothers dying in childbirth in the developing world live in countries at risk or, affected by or recently recovering from violence. There are strong links between local conflicts, national conflict, organized crime and trafficking and gang activity, and several societies that have successfully addressed one form of violence have later seen other forms threaten their development progress. The key challenge is to build national institutional capacities, taking account of the balance between political realities and progress on social justice, and the need for carefully sequenced and paced reforms. Successful efforts to prevent violence have in general combined political, security and developmental efforts in support of objectives of citizen security, economic hope and inclusive and responsive governance. The ultimate goal of the WDR is to promote new ways of preventing or addressing violent conflict. The WDR will not attempt to come up with a universal set of prescriptions. By drawing on insight and experiences from a host of past and present situations, it will identify promising national and regional initiatives as well as directions for change in international responses, and discuss how lessons can be applied in situations of vulnerability to violent conflict.
1 Lic. en Sociología y Dra. en Ciencias Sociales por la Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). Miembro del Grupo de Estudios Sociales sobre el Paraguay (Instituto de Estudios de América Latina y el Caribe, UBA) y del Grupo de Estudios ...
Karen Armstrong, former Roman Catholic nun and one of our foremost scholars of religion, speaks out to disprove the link between religion and bloodshed. * Religion is as old as humanity: Fields of Blood goes back to the Stone Age hunter ...
This is a brilliant and moving discussion of the nature of violence in the ancient and modern world and how the traumas experienced affected the survivors.
(Re)solving Violence in America
Aquellos progenitores con los que es difícil trabajar son los que no se someten, son juzgados como malos padres y tratados con tanta rudeza, que finalmente terminan huyendo y abandonando al niño.
Lieutenant - Colonel David Grossman , psychology professor , The Arizona Republic , May 27 , 1999 . I used to be scared a lot by violent media , but since I started taking acting lessons , I realise that it is all just faked .
暴力: 從常態到殘暴,以微觀角度探索個人,家庭和社會中超過30種暴力的形成和真相
Las Ideologías de la violencia
A focused collection of high-quality scholarship provides readers with a state-of-the-art account of the latest work in this field.
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