development of LAO societies toward forms of organization that enable more economic output, reduced violence, stable political ….The control of violence is central to the logic of all LAOs and is therefore at the heart of the problem of development. Because … the traditional economic framework fails to understand that LAO's are organized to prevent violence, its policy …

Compelling analysis revealing the endemic violence and systematic impoverishment at the heart of 'development' …: The Fourth World Fights Back -- 9 The Violence of Development: Human Rights Defenders against the Wall -- 10 Whither …

This book examines the role of economic violence (violations of economic and social rights, corruption, and plunder of … natural resources) within the transitional justice agenda. Because economic violence often leads to conflict, is perpetrated … an instrument of peacebuilding rather than a simple political transition, focus on economic violence as the crucial 'root …