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One Anthropologist's Answer to Glenn D. Paige's Question Challenging Peace Studies
Sponsel, Leslie E.
Journal of Peace Education, v15 n3 p267-287 2018
Glenn D. Paige pioneered in the revolutionary development of a far-reaching transformation of science, academia, and society from a killing to a nonkilling worldview, values, and attitudes. For six decades, anthropology has been accumulating scientific empirical evidence and rational arguments demonstrating that nonkilling societies exist, thereby rebutting the simplistic biological determinist myth that human nature inevitably and universally generates violence and war. Nevertheless, Hobbessians persist in their echo chamber advertising and celebrating the innate depravity of the human species as apologists for war and peace resisters. This systemic bias operates in synergy with the American industrial-military-media-academic complex and culture, the latter exemplified by a revealing comparison of war and football. With great intellectual courage and creative thinking, Paige critically challenges the anachronistic Hobbesian paradigm and offers a far more compelling and positive alternative for sustainable peace in the future.
Descriptors: Peace, Anthropology, War, World Views, Misconceptions, Ideology, Ethnography, Aggression, Violence, Bias, Cooperation
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