The end of war
By: by John Horgan
Publisher: McSweeney's Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781936365364
Subjects: Peace; War
Description: Disagrees with the argument that war is a fact of human nature, applying the scientific method to war to conclude that, biologically speaking, humans are just as likely to be peaceful as violent.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-225).
Table of contents: title: Living in wartime; title: War is not innate; title: You can't blame it all on a few bad apples; title: Does resource scarcity make us fight? (no, not necessarily); title: Is war a cultural contageon? (yes); title: Choosing peace; title: The power of nonviolence; title: In defense of free will; title: Appendix : a brief prehistory of nonviolence.