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Douglas P. Fry, Ph.D., is a professor of peace and conflict studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His latest book is Nurturing Our Humanity, co-authored with Riane Eisler.
A multidisciplinary team of researchers is discovering what makes some societies more peaceful than others.
Ethnographic studies find that not all societies make war. In other words, war is not intrinsic to humankind.