Editing Violence (section)

=== Economic effects ===
In countries with high levels of violence, economic growth can be slowed down, personal and collective security eroded, and social development impeded. Families edging out of poverty and investing in schooling their sons and daughters can be ruined through the violent death or severe disability of the main breadwinner. Communities can be caught in [[poverty trap]]s where pervasive violence and deprivation form a vicious circle that stifles economic growth. For societies, meeting the direct costs of health, criminal justice, and social welfare responses to violence diverts many billions of dollars from more constructive societal spending. The much larger indirect costs of violence due to lost productivity and lost investment in education work together to slow economic development, increase socioeconomic inequality, and erode human and social capital.

Additionally, communities with high level of violence do not provide the level of stability and predictability vital for a prospering business economy. Individuals will be less likely to invest money and effort towards growth in such unstable and violent conditions. One of the possible proves might be the study of [[Baten]] and Gust that used "[[regicide]]" as [[measurement unit]] to approximate the influence of interpersonal violence and depict the influence of high [[interpersonal violence]] on [[economic development]] and level of [[investment]]s. The results of the research prove the [[correlation]] of the [[human capital]] and the interpersonal violence.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Baten |first1=Jörg |title=Interpersonal violence in South Asia, 900–1900}}</ref>

In 2016, the [[Institute for Economics and Peace]], released the [http://visionofhumanity.org/app/uploads/2017/02/The-Economic-Value-of-Peace-2016-WEB.pdf Economic Value of Peace] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171115155321/http://visionofhumanity.org/app/uploads/2017/02/The-Economic-Value-of-Peace-2016-WEB.pdf |date=2017-11-15 }} report, which estimates the economic impact of violence and conflict on the global economy, the total economic impact of violence on the world economy in 2015 was estimated to be $13.6 trillion<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/01/how-much-does-violence-really-cost-our-global-economy/|title=How much does violence really cost our global economy?|website=World Economic Forum|date=5 January 2017 |access-date=2017-06-30|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913201606/https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/01/how-much-does-violence-really-cost-our-global-economy|archive-date=2017-09-13}}</ref> in [[purchasing power parity]] terms.