The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (187 page)

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Age of Terror
 
aggression:
 
and the brain
 
control of
 
forward panic (rampage)
 
heritability of
 
logic of
 
and pain
 
triggers of
 
agriculture:
 
and animals
 
emergence of
 
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud
 
Akey, Joshua
 
Albania
 
Albigensian Crusade;
see also
Cathars
 
alcohol
 
Alexander II, Czar
 
Alfonzo, Juan Pérez
 
Algeria
 
Ali, Ayaan Hirsi
 
Al-Jazeera
 
Allen, Woody
 
Allison, Graham
 
All Quiet on the Western Front
(film)
 
Alm, Steven
 
al-Odah, Salman
 
Al Qaeda
 
al-Sadr, Muqtada
 
Al Sharif, Sayyid Imam (Dr. Fadl)
 
Altamont Festival
 
Alter, Karen
 
altruism:
 
biological
 
empathy-altruism hypothesis
 
nepotistic
 
reciprocal
 
sympathy-altruism hypothesis
 
uses of term
 
al-Zawahiri, Ayman
 
Amazons
 
American Humane Association
 
Amin
 
Amnesty International
 
Amsterdam
 
Anabaptists
 
anarchy
 
and dominance
 
and feuding
 
and genocide
 
and realism
 
and self-help justice
 
and terrorism
 
Andaman Islanders
 
Andersen, Hans Christian
 
Andrew, Saint
 
Angell, Norman
 
anger;
see also
Rage circuit
 
Angier, Natalie
 
animals:
 
blood sports
 
domesticated
 
eating meat of
 
factory farms
 
fishing
 
hunting
 
in movies
 
in research
 
rights of
 
anocracy (semidemocracy)
 
“anthropologists of peace,”
 
antisocial personality disorder;
see also
psychopaths
 
antiwar movements;
see also
pacifism
 
apartheid
 
Apollonian vs. Dionysian cultures
 
apologies
 
Aquinas, Saint Thomas
 
Arafat, Yasir
 
archaeology
 
Archer, John
 
Archimedes
 
Ardipithecus ramidus
 
Arendt, Hannah
 
Argentina
 
aristocrats
 
deaths from violence
 
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata
 
Aristotle
 
armed forces:
 
as band of brothers
 
conscription of
 
effectiveness of
 
Ethical Marine Warrior
 
file closers
 
mercenary
 
military revolution
 
reluctance to shoot
 
size of
 
willingness to die
 
Armenians, genocide of
 
Aronson, Elliot
 
Asal, Victor
 
Asch, Solomon
 
Ash-Sheikh, Abdulaziz
 
Asia:
 
abortion in
 
female infanticide in
 
historiography in
 
homicide rates in
 
hunter-gatherers in
 
legal discrimination in
 
massacres in
 
New Peace in
 
spanking in
 
violence against animals in
 
violence against women in
 
wars in
 
assassinations;
see also
regicide
 
Astell, Mary
 
Athens, democracy in
 
Atlas, Charles
 
Atran, Scott
 
atrocities, twenty worst in history
 
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
 
Atwood, Brian
 
Augustine, Saint
 
Australia
 
domestic violence in
 
homicide in
 
peace imposed in New Guinea
 
penal colony
 
warfare among aborigines
 
australopithecenes
 
Austria-Hungary
 
autarky;
see also
trade, international
 
Authority Ranking
 
autocracy
 
and Age of Nationalism
 
and democide
 
Islamic
 
punishment in
 
and the social dilemma
 
autonomic nervous system
 
Autonomy, ethic of
 
availability heuristic
 
Axelrod, Robert
 
Aztecs
 
 
baby boomers:
 
crime among
 
influence of television on
 
and 1960s counterculture
 
Bacon, Francis
 
balance of power
 
balance of terror
 
Bales, Kevin
 
Bandura, Albert
 
Bangladesh
 
Barbara, Saint
 
Barth, Karl
 
Batson, Daniel
 
Baumeister, Roy
 
Evil
 
and self-control
 
Bays, Paul
 
Beatles
 
Beccaria, Cesare
 
On Crimes and Punishments
 
Beirut, U.S. servicemen bombed in
 
Belarus
 
Belgium
 
Bell, David
 
Bell, Derrick
 
bell curve,
see
normal distribution
 
Belloc, Hillaire
 
Benedict, Ruth,
Patterns of Culture
 
Bentham, Jeremy
 
Berlin, Isaiah
 
Berlin Wall
 
Bethmann-Hollweg, Theobald von
 
Betzig, Laura
 
Bhagavad-Gita
 
Bhutto, Benazir
 
Bible:
 
capital punishment in
 
debt bondage in
 
historical analysis of
 
and homophobia
 
human sacrifice in
 
and legislation
 
New Testament
 
Old Testament
 
popularity of
 
slavery in
 
Big Parade, The
(film)
 
Bill of Rights, U.S.
 
bin Laden, Osama
 
bioethics
 
biological weapons
 
Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing
 
birthday paradox
 
Black, Donald
 
Black Death
 
Blackwell, Aaron
 
Blair, Tony
 
blank slate
 
blasphemy
 
blood and soil
 
blood feuds;
see also
revenge
 
blood libel
 
blood money (wergild)
 
blood sports
 
Bloom, Paul
 
Bluebeard
 
bobbies
 
Bobo, Lawrence
 
Bokassa, Jean-Bédel
 
Boleyn, Anne
 
bonobos (pygmy chimps)
 
book production
 
Boone, Daniel
 
Borat
(film)
 
borderline personality disorder
 
border wars;
see also
territory
 
Bosnia
 
Boston
 
crime in
 
homicides in
 
police
 
Public Library
 
revolutionary
 
and social identity
 
TenPoint coalition
 
Boston Strangler
 
Bradford, William
 
brain
 
and aggression
 
amygdala
 
anterior cingulate cortex

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