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Sources and Further Reading:
1. The Better Angels of Our Nature - Steven Pinker
2. The Darker Angels of Our Nature - Mark Micale & Philip Dwyer (et al)
3. Is Russia's War With Ukraine the End of the Long Peace? - Steven Pinker
4. On the Statistical Properties and Tail Risk of Violent Conflicts - Cirillo & Taleb (2016, Physica A)
5. Vox on Better Angels debunk: https://www.vox.com/2015/5/21/8635369...
6. Make Money, Not War - Aschwin De Wolf
7. Violence Data: https://ucdp.uu.se/downloads/index.ht...
8. The Myth of Declining Violence - Lewis & Lewis (2017, IJCS)
9. On Violence in History - Dwyer & Micale (2020, Berghahn Books)
10. The Inner Demons of the Better Angels of Our Nature - Small (2018, Beghahn Books)
11. Then & Now on Pinker: • Steven Pinker is WRONG about the decline o...
12. Rebecca Watson on Pinker: • Why Steven Pinker is Wrong About Violence
13. Medhi Hasan vs Pinker: • War, poverty and inequality: Is there any ...
14. Chomsky on Pinker: • Noam Chomsky on Steven Pinker
15. Kurzgesagt 1: • Is War Over? — A Paradox Explained
16. Kurzgesagt 2: • Is The World Getting More Violent?