Gary Haugen has seen poverty- from investigating the Rwandan genocide to working with widows in Zambia, he has seen and heard countless stories of poverty and compassion.

In the past 35 years, the number of people in the world living in extreme poverty has decreased from 50% to 15%. But what seems to be an extreme amount of success has not had the effect that we might hope.

According to Haugen, the way to create a massive ripple effect that will eventually shatter the cause of global poverty can happen by addressing one thing: violence.

Watch Gary’s talk below and see how we can move from creating anti-poverty programs to actually ending poverty worldwide.