terça-feira, 24 de setembro de 2019

2019 paper by two German researchers: "income inequality results in more domestic terrorism"



Paper in the link above by two German authors (Kriege & Meierrieks, 2019) who studied the effect of income inequality on terrorism for a sample of 113 countries. 

In this context it's worth remembering that in 2014 Eric Schmidt & Jared Cohen (when they were respectively the Chairman of Google and the Director of Google Ideas) wrote a book entitled “The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives”. 

On it, they recall the fact that the world has hundreds of millions of young people living in miserable conditions that can easily be radicalized to engage in terrorist actions. They also quote the words of US General Stanley McChrystal (pictured above) to the German magazine Der Spiegel, when he said that what will defeat terrorism is not military actions but basically two things: the Rule of Law and basic living conditions like education and jobs.

PS - Also on this issue see the statement of a German deputy who wrote: 
"wealth inequalities are as immoral as they are grotesque". in the report "Sustainable Equality-2019-2024". https://www.progressivesociety.eu/publication/report-independent-commission-sustainable-equality-2019-2024