Locus Effect

Locus Effect

1. Waking up to the locus

   • Analogies
     • Farms in 1875
       • Gov't gave land and banks gave money for horses
       • Nobody offered protection of crops from locus
     • School for children
       • Promise of school
       • no promise of safety while traveling to school
   • What it is
     • crushing impact of the plague of violence on the poor
     • addressing violence is a precondition
   • Development
     • Food to eat
     • clean water
     • freedom from crime
   • problems with assistance
     • bullies are prepared to steal from the weak
   • Difficulty recognizing the problem

2. Hidden cost

   • Monetary cost of Violence
   • Non-monetary cost of violence
     • Increased levels of depression, suicide, substance abuse
     • Psychological damage comparable to war
     • invisible wounds with no treatment
   • Understanding the emotional cost
     • more realistic about the effectiveness of relief efforts
     • Trauma can prevent community from making use of assistance

3. Action

   • Speak openly and honestly about the issue
   • "Sound the alarm"
     • education for girls in developing countries has high rate of return
       • important to recognize violence against the girls has devastating impact
     • forced labor directly c auses poverty
     • Abusive detention practices
       • lost income
       • lost output
     • Violence undermines economic development
     • We don't know everything yet
   • Better data
     • Violence data hidden
     • isolate violence from other factors
     • More specific data
   • Not done learning, but we know enough