“complex adaptive systems.” ...Adding a non-native species, or removing one that has always been there, changes these relationships in ways that are too intertwined and complicated to predict. ...international development is just such an invasive species...Introducing something foreign into that system—millions in donor cash, dozens of trained personnel and equipment, U.N. Land Rovers—causes it to adapt in ways you can’t predict. - - - My favorite example of unintended consequences comes, weirdly enough, from the United States. In a speech to a criminology conference, Nancy G. Guerra, the director of the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Delaware, described a project where she held workshops with inner-city Latina teenagers, trying to prevent them from joining gangs. The program worked in that none of the girls committed any violence within six months of the workshops. But by the end of that time, they were all, each and every one, pregnant.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 19:47:19 +0000
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