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Look at the murder and mayhem in Mexico, Central America, so many other parts of the planet, the global black market estimated at 300 billion dollars a year, prisons packed in the United States and elsewhere, police and military drawn into an unwinnable war that violates basic rights, and ordinary citizens just hope they don't get caught in the crossfire, and meanwhile, more people using more drugs than ever.
Which is why it's particularly galling to me as an American that we've been the driving force behind this global drug war.
So think about our global drug war not as any sort of rational policy, but as the international projection of a domestic psychosis.
But just imagine the drug war nightmare that would result.
Research I've been doing with Keith Krause and others has shown that between 50,000 and 60,000 people are dying in war zones violently.
In other words, 10 times more people are dying outside of war than inside war.
Recently, like in the ongoing war in Syria or the war in Gaza, we've seen images that are staged or brought from a different conflict.
So that an arguing couple spiraling into negativity and teetering on the brink of divorce is actually mathematically equivalent to the beginning of a nuclear war.
The prisoner's dilemma is actually a story that's overlaid on a mathematical matrix that came out of the game theory in the early years of thinking about nuclear war: two players who couldn't trust each other.
In El Salvador, both sides that withdrew from their civil war took moves that had been proven to mirror a prisoner's dilemma strategy.
China has more coal-fired power plants than any other country in the world, about 40 percent of the global total, and it's because of this fact that China's government has decided since 2014 to wage a war on coal, shutting down small coal mines, setting limits on coal consumption, even canceling an Australia's worth of coal-fired power plants.
Can we trust the data and the statistics that show that China's air quality is coming down and that its war on coal is actually having an effect?
Hercules was to retrieve the belt given to her by her father Ares, the god of war.
Look, attitude towards war has dramatically changed over the years.
Now, most people outside of Africa don't know much about the war in Congo, so let me give you a couple of key facts.
Well, it's because of people like Isabelle and her husband that I have devoted my career to studying this war that we know so little about.
During the past eight years, fighting in the eastern provinces has regularly reignited full-scale civil and international war.
The resulting inattention to local conflicts leads to inadequate peacebuilding in the short term and potential war resumption in the long term.
Local conflicts fuel violence in most war and post-war environments, from Afghanistan to Sudan to Timor-Leste, and in the rare cases where there have been comprehensive, bottom-up peacebuilding initiatives, these attempts have been successful at making peace sustainable.
When I was three, war broke out in Sierra Leone in 1991.
We escaped the war and ended up in Gambia, in West Africa.
In this play, the women of Athens grow sick of war and go on a sex strike until their husbands make peace.
But it’s a deeply rewarding one, with an epic assortment of intense romances, civil war, political intrigue, globe-trotting adventurers, and more characters named Aureliano than you’d think possible.
Then one day, an elder gave me a story that went like this: long time ago, there was a big war between tribes.
In that war, that nobody seriously wanted to stop, and we have many of these today, bringing some assistance to people in need and a bit of protection was not just an act of humanity, it was making a real difference for the people.
Until the beginning of the civil war in Somalia in the late '80s, humanitarian aid workers were sometimes victims of what we call collateral damages, but by and large we were not the target of these attacks.
Attacks on humanitarian aid workers are war crimes in international law.
In Russia, all war monuments have this beautiful inscription at the top.
When I was a kid, the disaster we worried about most was a nuclear war.
If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it's most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war.
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