#conflict-and-violence

#conflict-and-violence

Aid can provide jobs and resources. And that, in turn, can reduce the incentives for people to engage in violent actions. Yet it can have the reverse effect as well. "Aid can also increase conflict by introducing something to fight over," says Austin Wright, a data scientist at the University of Chicago who works at the intersection of public policy and statistics. He's referring to resources like roads and supplies paid for by the foreign assistance. In other words, "things that are of value to control."