2016 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Development Strategies and Violence
verfasst von : William Ascher, Natalia Mirovitskaya
Erschienen in: Development Strategies and Inter-Group Violence
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
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Can economic development initiatives promote and preserve peace within nations? The pessimists say no—development inevitably benefits some more than others, leading to resentment and perceptions of exploitation. Historically, development has been accompanied by violence among various groups with different collective identities (class, ethnicity, religion, or territorial origin). Property rights come to be contested. The subordinate groups try to wrest land and wealth away from the privileged groups, who often retaliate. The privileged struggle for more, and may collaborate in repression in order to protect their assets. The optimists say yes, of course—the economically developed countries, with few exceptions, clearly face less violence than the “bottom billion.” The pessimists respond that developed countries prospered over the bodies and fortunes of the losers and that they are still involved in conflicts all over the world. They also argue that some nations fail to develop, in part because of the violence triggered by development. Pro-growth advocates counter that economic stagnation triggers turmoil as well.