The people of Afghanistan have been raised on insecurity and bloodshed, the consequence of nearly half a century of internal and external violence.
Drawing from 23 quantitative ("How many homicides per 100,000 people?") and qualitative ("relations with neighboring countries") indicators that measure the amount of internal and external violence within specific countries, the IEP annually compiles a list of the most -- and least -- peaceful countries in the world.
However, a study of Swedish men found that childless men who were cohabiting with a partner had higher risk of death from suicide, external violence and addiction, compared to men who were custodial fathers and cohabiting with a partner (Ringbäck Weitoft, Burström, & Rosén, 2004).
So if you fit into one of these groups, and happen to die without a known disease or from external violence, you'll end up on my table.
If conduct is produced by external violence, no moral sentiment is aroused and, thus, we do not (as a matter of fact) hold the person responsible.
The effects of these under-investments on children are magnified by the overall decline in ODA flows, the crushing burden of external debt, gender-based violence and discrimination, environmental degradation, natural disasters - and the devastating spread of armed conflict and HIV/AIDS.
As Edward L. Glaeser, a Harvard economist who studies segregation, puts it, blacks, more than any group except perhaps Native Americans, have been subjected to an unusually severe set of external segregating forces -- from violence to restrictive covenants to racial steering by real estate agents.
The general public, however, has less fear of family violence than of external assault, because they feel their own relatives are unlikely to injure them.
Deepening poverty and inequity remain immense obstacles to human development, including the burden of external debt; gender discrimination and violence, environmental degradation, terrorism, and natural disasters.
For it is they who bear the heaviest burden of poverty - a burden worsened by the catastrophic spread of HIV/AIDS, by the proliferation of armed conflict and instability, and by the paralysing effects of external debt, gender discrimination and violence, environmental degradation, terrorism, and natural disasters.
