
“There and in the years that followed, I learned a society’s success isn’t just about expanding its wealth. It is about a rebel group not enslaving your eleven-year-old daughter as a wife. It is about sitting in front of your home without the fear of a drive-by shooting and a bullet gone astray. It is about being able to go to a police officer, a court, or a mayor and get some semblance of justice. It is about the government never being allowed to push you off your land and stick you in a concentration camp. Another economist, Amartya Sen, called this “development as freedom.” It is hard to imagine something more important to be free of than violence.”
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Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace
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