Warum Krieg kein Schicksal ist – Harald Meller, Kai Michel und Carel van Schaik über die Evolution der Gewalt

In the organizer's words:

The unimaginable has happened: War is back - and threatens us all. Was the long peace in Europe just a brief interlude? Are we now doomed because we cannot fight our warlike nature? High time to trace the evolutionary roots of violence! Archaeologist Harald Meller, historian and literary scholar Kai Michel and evolutionary biologist Carel van Schaik embark on a different kind of human history. Their book The Evolution of Violence presents research on bonobos, traces the archaeology of murder and manslaughter and shows how war made despots and states, but also gods, great. They combine findings from various sciences to show the conditions under which war and violence arise - and how we can prevent this in the future. Moderator: Gert Scobel