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Locust Effect, The: Why The End Of Poverty Requires The End Of Violence (2014)

by Gary A. Haugen(Favorite Author)

4.36 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1491544171 (ISBN13: 9781491544174)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Brilliance Audio

review 1: Much like a plague of locusts lays waste to anything and everything in its wake, the authors of “The Locust Effect” make the compelling case that violence (common, everyday person-on-person violence) is laying waste to anything and everything for the poor in the developing world. Our efforts to feed the poor, educate the illiterate, uplift and empower girls and women, combat cultural prejudices, stimulate bruised economies, provide shelter for the homeless cannot and will not succeed unless we change the conversation and start to consider how deeply violence affects the very people we hope to help.We would do well not to simply assume we know what the poor need. When asked, what the poor want most is not education, food, shelter or opportunity - they want to live in sa... morefety, without fear that the little they have and those they love could be decimated by evil-doers acting with impunity. They want justice: justice which has to come from public justice systems.The thesis of the book is simple: the end of poverty requires the end of violence; and to end violence, countries need functioning public justice systems.Haugen and Boutros carefully, academically, painstakingly and passionately argue that violence against the poor is both the biggest issue which the poor are facing, and also the single issue which the world at large has yet to address for human rights. They are clear in their probing as to how criminal justice systems got to be so bad, sober in their assessment of the task ahead, 100% convincing that this is the issue we have to face head on if we are to seek justice for the billions of suffering people in our world.The Locust Effect is not light reading. It doesn't have a silver bullet solution. It is a deeply disturbing and emotionally unsatisfying read. Yet, it is hopeful and purposeful.
review 2: A powerful study into the relationship between violence and poverty. At times a difficult book to read due to the first hand stories of the lives destroyed by violence and of the communities impoverished due to violence. Instead of simply addressing the poverty suffered by so many people through out the world the authors detail the slavery, the sex trade and the forced labor all controlled by predators willing to impose their will on the poor through violence. A challenging and powerful book. less

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