PACS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Thomas Robert Malthus, Global Public Good, Poverty Threshold
28 Jan 2017
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4b: 6 key premises of the world order paradigm. Premise 1: sufficiency (mismanaged resources with unsustainable and inequitable practices) World has sufficient resources, but they are mismanaged using unsustainable and inequitable practices. People have the ability to behave cooperatively if there is a structural framework could be goof international treaty or a strong un. Reintroduces the concept of structural violence focus on how the world is human nature world has enough resources to deal with our conflicts. Says there is something fundamentally wrong with the system, as opposed to organized and how many people experience it as unjust and not peaceful constructively, but it is organized in ways that makes conflict worse. 5 possible explanations: relative and absolute deprivation (only explanation actually explored): Relative = seeing ourselves as less well-off than others we. Many theorists argue that relative deprivation is a clearer,
