What+can+war+and+violence+cause?

=What can war and violence cause?= toc War can create an unstable environment and it can create more or bigger problems. It can do this if the country who is involved in the war is an underprivileged country. The country then spends their money on the war; or they can be cut off due to the war. If this happens less money is then available for the community. As in most wars; it includes the damaging of peoples houses (e.g. by bombs) The lack of money, architecture and separation from the world can throw the community into poverty or a further stage of poverty (if the country is currently in poverty). //“// //The material and human destruction caused by warfare is a major development problem.”// ([|Causes of Poverty]) //“Warfare contributes to more entrenched poverty by diverting scarce resources from fighting poverty to maintaining a military.”// ([|Causes of Poverty]) Warfare is one of the most contributing factors to worsening or creating poverty. As mentioned before it can destroy architecture and create a problem because the community is unable to build more.

Poverty can further complicate the country’s situation. //“.Lack of education keeps children from obtaining jobs that would lift them and their families out of poverty. Often, children are kept from school because they are needed at home to support their family with additional income”// ([|A Dollar A Day]) As you can see, poverty can lead to the lack of education for children. This sabotages the children’s future; for if they cannot receive education now they might not receive it until it is too late or they don’t receive it at all. These are huge problems that can change a whole community, all due to the root cause; war. If there were no war the community would (hopefully) continue to use the money to help the people that are in poverty; although maybe they wouldn’t be able to stop it; the situation would certainly be much better than if they weren’t able to help at all.

War can cut of an undeveloped country. This stops any imported products of need to the public; as well as preventing the country from exporting products to other countries. //“Imports via the port went from 6.2 million tons in 1989 to 3.2 million in 1990 to 1.5 million in 1991. Exports also were hurt, if less dramatically; from 10 million tons in 1989 to 8.9 million in 1990 to 7.7 million in 1991.”//([|THE 1991 GULF WAR AND JORDAN'S ECONOMY]) This is just an example of what one of the many wars caused and how not only paying for the war is expensive; but how big the lack of imports and exports can be. Not being able to export items can cause the country to loose money; while not being able to import items can lead to lessened amounts of much needed products. Not only during the war would the community face immense problems; but also the aftermath of the war would continue to leave the community unstable. //“…average citizen in the aftermath of the war, fails to capture the broader affects of the damages to… social services, such as health care and access to clean water.”// ([|Causes of Poverty]) This shows that after a war people might not have access to basic things needed for their survival (e.g. water, food, health care etc.) War will eventually create an unstable environment; it creates and/or develops poverty, lack of education, lack of money and worse living standards.

=Benjamin Franklin= "There never was a good war or a bad peace." ~ [|Benjamin Franklin] That's right; war is never good nor is peace ever bad...

=Charles Evans Hughes=

"War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals." ~ [|Charles Evans Hughes] War __should__ be made a crime; because people are punished for murdering someone. What difference should it make that someone kills someone else in a war?

By: Joanna

Bibliography/References: A Dollar A Day - Causes of Poverty Causes of Poverty <[|http://www.gdrc.org/icm/poverty-causes.htm  The 1991 Gulf War<[|http://meria.idc.ac.il/journal/2002/issue2/jv6n2a7.html>  Photo 

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