Beyond War: The Human Potential for Peace

A profoundly heartening view of human nature, Beyond War offers a hopeful prognosis for a future without...
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Author: Douglas P. Fry
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Language: English
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Beyond War: The Human Potential for Peace by Fry, Douglas P.

Beyond War: The Human Potential for Peace

€42,50

Beyond War: The Human Potential for Peace

€42,50
Author: Douglas P. Fry
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A profoundly heartening view of human nature, Beyond War offers a hopeful prognosis for a future without war. Douglas P. Fry convincingly argues that our ancient ancestors were not innately warlike--and neither are we. He points out that, for perhaps ninety-nine percent of our history, for well over a million years, humans lived in nomadic hunter-and-gatherer groups, egalitarian bands where warfare was a rarity. Drawing on archaeology and fascinating recent fieldwork on hunter-gatherer bands from around the world, Fry debunks the idea that war is ancient and inevitable. For instance, among Aboriginal Australians, warfare was an extreme anomaly. Fry also points out that even today, when war seems ever present, the vast majority of us live peaceful, nonviolent lives. We are not as warlike as we think, and if we can learn from our ancestors, we may be able to move beyond war to provide real justice and security for the world.


Author: Douglas P. Fry
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/10/2009
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780195384611

About the Author

Douglas P. Fry teaches in the Faculty of Social and Caring Sciences at Åbo Akademi University in Finland and is an adjunct research scientist in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona. A renowned anthropologist and a leading authority on aggression and conflict
resolution, he has worked in this field for over twenty-five years and has published many articles and books on this subject.



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