Is War Over? — A Paradox Explained

2014-10-09

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We live in the most peaceful time in human history. Wait, what? Seriously? That can't be right, there are more wars than ever! Well, no and they're killing fewer and fewer people, even though the world population is at an all-time high...and the numbers prove it! We explain how we came to this conclusion, and why war might... go away.

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Sources used for this video:

http://www.ppu.org.uk/learn/infodocs/st_war_peace.html

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/12/11/3036671/2013-certainly-year-human-history/

Steven Pinker: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (book)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/12/11/3036671/2013-certainly-year-human-history/#pinker

http://www.pcr.uu.se/research/ucdp/datasets/generate_your_own_datasets/dynamic_datasets/

http://www.pcr.uu.se/research/UCDP/

http://www.warsintheworld.com/?page=static1258254223

http://www.historyofwar.org/

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100312400

http://stevenpinker.com/publications/better-angels-our-nature