The article looks at violence in human society, citing the analysis offered by cognitive scientist Steven Pinker in his book "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined" as well as work by Pinker and philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on the reasons violence has declined....
A tiny percentage of Americans report in surveys that they would be willing to commit acts of political violence themselves. But in a country with permissive gun laws, that still means that “on any given day, there are thousands of people walking the streets who are openly armed and support...
Over the past several centuries there has been a global decline in violence which has been attributed to the Civilizing Process, in which a centralized government authority and mutually beneficial trade have a pacifying effect on humans within states. This decline in violence has also translated into...
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Tracing the history of humanity from its origins to the present day,Pinker shows how violence has declined, and that strong, stable government is theprincipal reason for this happening. The book briefly touches on the way literature mayplay a part in the reduction of violence through the ...
After the Panthay Rebellion in Yunnan (1856-73), the Guizhou Rebellion (1854-73), and French incursions in 1884-85, prospects for more thorough integration of the Southwest into the weakened Chinese state seemed slim. Yet the next 50 years saw a sharp decline in ethnic violence in these ...
Historians and political scientists alike have confirmed a decline in inter and intra state violence. There is broad consensus regarding this decline. The world never will be perfectly safe, but many correlates of violence are known and therefore it is possible to manage safety and security. War,...
Law at Stanford Law School. He is the author ofThe Savage Constitution,The Indian Child Welfare Act And the Presentment Clause: A Very Pink HerringandFederal Ground: Governing Property and Violence in the First U.S. Territories. He also filed an amicus brief in the case ofHaaland v Bracke...
violence relationship: people commit violent crimes because they are: (1) psychopharmacologically under the influence of drugs; (2) economically compelled to offend to fund drug use; and (3) systemically brought to crime by being involved in the violent environment of drug use and drug markets....
This represents a substantial decline in perceptions of involvement, which is surprising given both previous research (Hartmann & Moeller, 2014) and the efforts of activists to tie MNEs to the abuses of their suppliers. Fig. 2 Type of involvement Full size image Similarly, vignettes that ...