death_date death_place birth_place article_title name birth_date known_for image employer education birth_name occupation
02 march 2014 kaneohe , hawaii , united states cleveland , ohio , united states rudolph rummel
 r. j. rummel 21 october 1932 research on war and conflict resolution rjrummel.jpg indiana -lrb- 1964 -- 1966 -rrb- university of hawaii -lrb- 1966 university -- 1995 -rrb- -lrb- 1963 -- 1964 -rrb- yale university university 1959 -rrb- -lrb- m.a. , political science , 1961 -rrb- of northwestern university -lrb- ph.d. , political science , 1963 -rrb- hawaii -lrb- b.a. , political science , rudolph joseph rummel political scientist
rudolph rummel

rudolph joseph rummel -lrb- october 21 , 1932 -- march 2 , 2014 -rrb- was professor emeritus of political science at the university of hawaii .
he spent his career assembling data on collective violence and war with a view toward helping their resolution or elimination .
rummel coined the term `` democide '' for murder by government -lrb- compare `` genocide '' -rrb- , and his research suggests that six times as many people died of democide during the 20th century than in all that century 's wars combined .
he concluded that democracy is the form of government least likely to kill its citizens and that democracies do not wage war against each other ; that is the democratic peace theory .
rummel was the author of twenty-four -lrb- 24 -rrb- scholarly books , and published his major results in `` understanding conflict and war '' -lrb- 1975 -- 81 -rrb- .
he then spent the next fifteen years refining the underlying theory and testing it empirically on new data , against the empirical results of others , and on case studies .
`` power kills '' -lrb- 1997 -rrb- sums up rummel 's research .
other works include `` lethal politics : soviet genocides and mass murders 1917 -- 1987 '' -lrb- 1990 -rrb- ; `` china 's bloody century : genocide and mass murder since 1900 '' -lrb- 1991 -rrb- ; `` democide : nazi genocide and mass murder '' -lrb- 1992 -rrb- ; `` death by government '' -lrb- 1994 -rrb- ; and `` statistics of democide '' -lrb- 1997 -rrb- .
extracts , figures , and tables from the books , including his sources and details regarding the calculations , are available online on his website .
rummel also authored `` understanding factor analysis '' -lrb- 1970 -rrb- and `` understanding correlation '' -lrb- 1976 -rrb- .
he was the author of the `` never again '' series of alternative-history novels , in which a secret society sends two lovers armed with fabulous wealth and modern weapons back to 1906 with orders to create an alternative , peaceful century .
these works are available online .
