The Future of Conflict: Will Wars Ever Truly End?
Understanding War Is war an inevitable part of human nature, or can we envision a future where conflicts are resolved peacefully? It is difficult to understand the logic of any war from a civilisational point of view . Whenever a war erupts, the existential doubt arises and haunts us with greater intensity: is war not a self-defeating trait of human civilization? The answer is yes, and no. Many scholars have studied the connection between war, peace, and basic human nature with varying degrees of success . All of them beat their brains out trying to figure out the root causes of war and where its dateline begins in human history. The resulting theories cast light on many nuanced aspects of war, peace, and human nature. The scientific approaches of evolution, psychological theories, game theory, and much more have been used to expound the meaning of war. Kinship, hostility, group bonding, identity, altruism, cooperation, and many more similar and contrasting concepts went into this chu...