slavery in
torture in
Tuchman on
warfare in
witch hunts in
Middle East:
human rights devalued in
legal discrimination in
national borders in
peace efforts in
slavery in
wars in
Midianites
midwestern U.S., homicides in
Milgram, Stanley
militarized interstate disputes
military conscription
military horizon
military personnel, see armed forces
military revolution
military symbolism, see martial culture and values
militias
Mill, John Stuart
Million Man March
Milner, Larry
Milner, Peter
Milošević, Slobodan
Milton, John
Min, Anchee
mirror neurons
Mischel, Walter
Moabites
Moby-Dick
modernity
Moffitt, Terri
Mokkeddem, Malike
Moltke, Helmuth von
monarchy
Age of Dynasties
and filicide
hereditary
regicide
Mondeville, Henri de, Chirurgia
Mongols
monism
monkeys
Monkkonen, Eric
monogamy; see also marriage
Monroe, James
Montagu, Mary Wortley
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de
Montenegrin tribes
Monterey Pop Festival
Montesinos, Father Antonio de
Montesquieu, Baron de la
Montreal
Moon, Keith
moral disengagement
morality
compartmentalization of
cultural differences in
Golden Rule
historical direction of
and information
and law
norms of
punishable infractions of
relational models and
standards of
themes of
universalized
and violence
Moralization Gap
moral psychology; see also morality; moral sense
moral sense:
and fiction
as force for evil
introduction of concept
of people in earlier times
and reason
see also morality; moral psychology
More, Thomas
Morgenthau, Hans
Mormon church
Moro, Aldo
Moses
Mossadegh, Mohammad
Mosse, George
Mother Goose nursery rhymes
mountainous terrain
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick
Moyo, Dambisa
Mozambique
Mozi (Chinese philosopher)
Mueller, John
Muhammad
Muhammad, John
Muppets
Murray, Charles
museums
Mussolini, Benito
mutualism
mutually assured destruction (MAD)
Muyart de Vouglans, Pierre-François
myopia, historical, see historical myopia
myopic discounting
Myrmidons
Nafisi, Azar
NAFTA
Napier, Charles
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleonic Wars
narcissistic personality disorder
Nash, George
Nation, Carrie
nation, use of term
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism
National Counterterrorism Center
National Crime Victimization Survey
nationalism:
Age of Nationalism
blood and soil
and decolonization
and dominance
and genocide
and liberalism
militant
romantic
and social class
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
nation-states
Native Americans:
and cannibalism
genocide of
Kennewick Man
of Pacific Northwest
revenge among
Trail of Tears
treatment of animals
violence among
NATO
natural resources
natural selection
nature, state of
Nazism:
and animal welfare
and Elias
and face-to-face killing
and genocide
in Germany
and Holocaust
ideology of
and nationalism
and World War II
Negroponte, John
Neolithic Revolution
neonaticide; see also infanticide
neoteny
nepotistic altruism; see also kin selection
Nero, Emperor
Netherlands
commerce in
Dutch War of Louis XIV
and great power wars
homicides in
War of Independence
network externalities
neurotransmitters; see also catecholamines; dopamine; MAO-A; norepinephrine; serotonin
neutron bomb
New England:
Boston police
homicides
Native Americans exterminated in
revolutionary Boston
New Guinea
New Netherland colony
New Peace
and climate change
and democracy
and genocide
introduction of concept
non-European war
and terrorism
Newton, Isaac
New York City:
draft riots (1863)
homicides in
police
Stonewall Inn riot
Nicaragua
Niebuhr, Reinhold
Nietzsche, Friedrich
9/11, see September 11 attacks
1960s
Nisbett, Richard
Nixon, Richard M.
Nobel, Alfred
Noble Savage myth
nonstate societies:
cooperation in
data sources of
deaths from warfare in
emergence of
fighting in
violence rates in
norepinephrine
normal distribution
norms:
of civilized society
and crime rates
of etiquette
evaluation of
informal
internalized
and morality
in 1960s counterculture
of nonviolence
of purity
social
tacit
territorial integrity
of war as immoral
see also etiquette; moral sense; taboos
North Korea
noses:
blowing
cutting off
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
nuclear peace theory
nuclear taboo
nuclear terrorism
nuclear threat
nuclear weapons
Nunberg, Geoffrey
Nunn, Sam
Nuremberg Trials
nursery rhymes
Nurture Assumption
Nussbaum, Martha
Oatley, Keith
Obama, Barack
obedience; see also Milgram, Stanley
Odysseus
&n
bsp; Oklahoma City bombing
Olds, James
Oneal, John
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (film)
openness to experience
Operation Ceasefire
Opium Wars
Oppenheimer, Robert
opponent-process theory of emotion
optimal foraging
orientation, long- vs. short-term
Orwell, George
Otterbein, Keith
Ottoman Empire
Ötzi the Iceman
overconfidence
Owen, Wilfred
oxytocin
Oz, Amos
Pacification Process
civilization
human societies
introduction of concept
logic of violence
use of term
violence in human ancestors
violence in state and nonstate societies
Pacific Northwest
pacifism
Pacifist’s Dilemma
and empathy
and feminization
and gentle commerce
and Leviathan
and reason
Pakistan
Al Qaeda in
and India
and terrorism
Pale of Settlement
Palestine
Panksepp, Jaak
Papua New Guinea; see also New Guinea
Parachini, John
paramilitaries
Pareto, Vilfredo
Pareto Principle
Parker, Theodore
Parks, Rosa
Pascal, Blaise
pastoralism
Pate, Amy
Patrick, Saint
patrilocal societies
Patterson, Orlando
Patz, Etan
Pauling, Linus
Paul IV, Pope
Payne, James L.
peacekeepers, international
peace negotiations
peace theories
capitalist
democratic
Kantian
liberal
nuclear
pedomorphy
Peel, Sir Robert
Peloponnesian War
Pepys, Samuel
Perry, William
personality; see also antisocial personality disorder; attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; borderline personality disorder; empathy; narcissistic personality disorder; openness to experience; psychopaths
perspective-sympathy hypothesis
perspective-taking; see also empathy; mentalizing; theory of mind
Peru
Peter, Saint
Pforspundt, Heinrich von
Philadelphia
Philippines
Piaget, Jean
Pillay, Navanethem
Pinker, Steven:
The Blank Slate
How the Mind Works
The Stuff of Thought
Pipes, Richard
piracy
pituitary gland
Pizarro, David
Plato
plausible deniability
pluralistic ignorance
Plutarch
Podhoretz, Norman
pogroms; see also ethnic riots, deadly
Poincaré, Henri
poison, repugnance about
poison gas; see also chemical weapons
Poisson, Siméon-Denis
Poisson process
Poland
polarization
police states, use of term
political correctness
political discourse, sophistication of
Political Instability Task Force (PITF)
political murder; see also assassinations; despotism; regicide
politicide; see also genocide
politics, psychology of; see also liberalism, and conservatism; norms; taboos
Polity Project
Pol Pot
polygamy
polygyny
Pope, Alexander
population growth
populism
pornography
Portugal
positive illusions; see also overconfidence
positive-sum games; see also gentle commerce
postmodernism
Potts, Malcolm
poverty
Powell, Colin
power-law distributions
and coalitions
80:20 rule
of genocides
scale-free nature of
of terrorism
thick tails of
of wars
practical violence, see predatory violence
praetorian regimes; see also anocracy
Pran, Dith
Pratto, Felicia
predatory violence
cause of war
against groups
introduction of concept
means-end reasoning
and overconfidence
predictions
of science
statistical
predictions, erroneous:
abolishing capital punishment as increasing violence
abolishing debt bondage as doom of capitalism
abortions as leading to infanticide and child abuse
African American terrorism
crime boom in 1990s
democracy as obsolescent
9/11-style attacks weekly
nuclear arms race in East Asia
nuclear attacks during Cold War
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