PACS 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Structural Violence, Margaret Mead, Sigmund Freud

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Peace And Conflict Studies
• Course: PACS 10
• Professor: Zook, D C

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Either way, the answer has huge implications. War and conquest and imperialism have taken up more of history than peace and cooperation. War has been around for all of human history. When violence occurs, it is nearly always accompanied by a justification. The shared biological, psychological, and genetic elements that determine human behavior. Collectively they supersede or considerably weaken free will and choice. Collectively, they cross all religious, cultural, ethnic, and gendered lines. Biology, mcb, genetics, etc. all work together to answer this question. Nature provides constraints and how we play them determines whether there is war or peace. Seville statement on violence (1986) met with the goal to refute the idea that organized human violence is biologically determined . Inherited and learned characteristics + environment = war or peace. Those that succeed in competition pass on their genes (natural selection) Darwin"s theories are complex and often misused.