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You are more likely to die violently if you live in a middle-income democracy with high levels of inequality and political polarization than if you live in a country at war, says democracy advisor Rachel Kleinfeld. This historical shift in the nature of violence presents an opportunity for everyday voters to act as a great force for change in their unbalanced societies. In this eye-opening talk, Kleinfeld unravels the causes of violence and offers a path to security for the world's deadliest countries.
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This sounds like Odessa, Texas
I would hope to be the man that mayor was and is.
Mockus (the mayor) he talks about is seen as too lefty and too soft to handle the criminal gangs and marxist guerrillas in Colombia, that’s why he couldn’t become president.
We must not forget that most of the weapons that crimminals use to kill in Latin América are coming illegaly from the united states.
not only that but 1st world banks are a major destabilizing force in those country’s economy.
@Brandon S good old America with its highest GDP, but highest income inequality.
Lack of healthcare, poor education, transport infrastructure etc.
Its a shithole. Nice try trying to sell the people a turd.
It seems they have awoken
gtfo- violence like this happens every day- this is a biased bullshit ted talk- been happeneing for 2000 years,. get over it
Type and search: ‘Chinese military in Mexico’
@MrBraveheart1191 my son was shot and killed 75 days ago. Thanks to people like you he was unarmed because of his age. He was 12 days from being 21 years old.
Sadly,you listen to CNN instead of actually doing the research. The actual number of people who die each year from gun shots who had no influence on their deaths at all is minuscule. We are a country of 350 million people. The % of people like my son who just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time is .007% of the entire population.
That is a small price to pray for freedom amd individual rights. Unfortunately you are so ignorant of the founding of this country and the history of all governments you think the people should be unarmed. Fortunately, this will never happen.
You are the enemy of this nation,freedom,and individual rights. Thankfully,the people are waking up. Sides are being picked and it’s clear you habe picked yours. Good luck. You will need it.
we have to fight with corruption
join the dark side, there’s free tacos 😀
4:52 She mentions the “corrupt courts”. wonderful.
Military, politicians, police and judges.
All corrupt in the American government
Mexico, Venezuela, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan , Myanmar, Libya, Iran.
These places all have something in similar.
All of these either try to nationalise their oil(distribute wealth) and thus coups(removal of democratically elected government) are created to allow for capitalist companies to buy off resources.
Or try to create their own petro-currency which threatens the USD monopoly and thus the USA supports terrorist groups to destabilise a region to find ‘weapons of mass destruction’
The criminals are the corporations which control American politics and cause unrest all over the world.
The criminals are the media who have been bought out by these private parties and support lies to the masses.
The problem in the world Justice a miscarriage of Justice
Did I miss it, or did she not even condemn the war on drugs and name fatherless homes as the majority cause of violence that passes down through generations?
Remy Lebeau Study the reason why that is. Don’t just mention the symptom, but the root cause of the problem. Why are there fatherless homes? What policies have led to that result? That should be the question people should be asking.
Why are there fatherless homes?
Heres a few reasons—
Fathers dies
Fathers imprisoned
Fathers a drug addict
Father to immature and irresponsible for fatherhood .
Mother is a “nightmare”…
Any other reasons?
@Rebecca Leeman and just plan stupid
@Donny Sandley
Yes not having a plan can be pretty stupid when it comes to having a child
I hope the communist “african national congress” ANC government leaders in south africa watch this video and learn something from it. They are stuffing their pockets with billions of dollars in foreign aid instead of using it for poor and struggling black communities.
As a colombian the real issue is drug trade being illegal.
This def. Is not off the top of her head..SHE KEEPS LOOKING UP AT SOME SORT OF QUE OR PROMPTER.
Listen to some of her subtle comments that expose her motive to give this speech.
Austin LOVES LIBERTY did anyone say it’s off the top of her head? Ted talks are never spontaneous
Dude, everyone looks at a prompter during TED talks.
Have you ever held a fifteen minute presentation in front of a large audience?
This is why Equally of law is more important then Emotions of law.
The Obama/professor speech style is too practiced, but the data speaks for itself.
0:44 Well, the size of the puplation is a kind of an important factor here. Brazil has 11 times more people than Syria. In 2015 when half a million Syrians were killed that is 3% of its people.
Who loves Ted?
Make weapons easily accessible in your country is a great idea against violence.
Incorrect.
Only if you define violence committed by legal weapons is not violence.
@Glimmlampe1982 haha if no one can easily have weapons nobody needs to defend themselves against them. So maybe we can both agree that gun violence can only be diminished if people do not have access to guns.
A typical example of fighting consequences, instead of eradicating the causes.
Please please TED here in LatinAmerica we need this video translated in spanish pls.
So we can widespread it pls.
Not subtitled but seconded voiced pls.
1:41 ” our problem”
Communism
“Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite.
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— Attributed to John Kenneth Galbraithv
Bad statistics, bias, and agenda instead of thorough analysis. Late TED as usual.