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The psychologist Steven Pinker and others have shown that all around the world people are becoming less and less accepting of suffering in ever-widening circles of others, which has led to declines of all kinds of cruelty and violence, from animal abuse to domestic violence to capital punishment.

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In Georgia, after years of stalemate, we saw a full-scale resurgence of violence in August, 2008.

In Kyrgyzstan, just over the last few weeks, unprecedented levels of violence occurred between ethnic Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks.

And in Iraq, finally, violence is on the rise again, and the country has yet to form a government four months after its last parliamentary elections.

Despite centuries of animosity, decades of violence and thousands of people killed, 1998 saw the conclusion of an historic agreement.

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