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Tag Archives: violence
Violence in your backyard: Poverty in America
Recent posts have linked poverty to violence in Greece and Africa. But poverty means violence here in America, too, and the forces that breed poverty and violence can reach into every home if they are ignored. A few examples of … Continue reading
Posted in Understanding violence
Tagged Africa, Camden, child poverty, domestic violence, Greece, gun deaths, military expenditures, poverty, UNICEF, violence
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Creating young martyrs: What leads young people to resort to violence?
By guest author Alice LoCicero The accused Boston Marathon bombers, Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, grew up in my home town of Cambridge and went to the high school my kids attended. They look like kids my children would have gone to … Continue reading
Posted in Book reviews, Children and war, Movie reviews, Terrorism
Tagged Alice LoCicero, Beate Arnestad, Black Tigers, Boston Marathon bombing, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, martyrs, Morten Daae, My Daughter the Terrorist, Samuel J. Sinclair, Society of Terrorism Research, Sri Lanka, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Tamil Tigers, terrorism, violence
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Poverty: The worst violence, Part 1
By guest author Charikleia Tsatsaroni Mahatma Gandhi said it: “Poverty is the worst violence.” More and more people around the world must recognize the truth of his words. In the fall of 2008, when banks collapsed and the financial crisis … Continue reading
Posted in Human rights, Understanding violence
Tagged Charikleia Tsatsaroni, financial crisis, Greece, Mahatma Gandhi, poverty, violence
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