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What does it mean?
Peres argues that terrorism causes poverty rather than the reverse, suggesting victims created their own conditions.
In plain terms
Terrorism creates poverty, not poverty causes terror.
What can you take from it?
Security issues often precede economic hardship.

Where it applies

  • development policy
  • counter-terrorism
  • social analysis

Putting it to work

  • focus on security
  • reassess development
  • analyze root causes

Questions to consider

  • What causes poverty?
  • Is terror always a choice?

Another view

This ignores how poverty can contribute to instability and radicalization.

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  3. You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea.

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