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table of contents
  1. Table of Contents
  2. Editors’ Note
  3. Introduction: Randall Forsberg and the Path to Peace
  4. Abstract
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Preface
  7. Part I. Toward a Theory of Peace
  8. Chapter 1. The Idea of a Theory of Peace
    1. 1.1 Introduction
    2. 1.2 Defining the End of War
    3. 1.3 Standards for the Theory of Peace
  9. Chapter 2. Conditions for the Abolition of War
    1. 2.1 Introduction
    2. 2.2 Main Hypothesis
    3. 2.3 Comparison With Other Approaches
    4. 2.4 Conclusions
  10. Part II. Socially-Sanctioned Violence
  11. Chapter 3. The Roles of Innate Impulses and Learned Moral Beliefs in Individual and Group Violence
    1. 3.1 Introduction
    2. 3.2 Sources and Features of Violence by Individuals
    3. 3.3 Sources and Features of Violence by Groups
    4. 3.4 Motives for Participation in Institutionalized Group Violence
  12. Chapter 4. Socially-Sanctioned Group Violence: Features, Examples, and Sources
    1. 4.1 Introduction
    2. 4.2 Some Socially-Sanctioned Forms of Physical Violence and Violation
    3. 4.3 Human Sacrifice, Slavery, and Corporal Punishment
    4. 4.4 The Declining Tolerance for Violence
    5. 4.5 The Rise of Institutionalized Forms of Violence
    6. 4.6 The Demise of Institutionalized Forms of Violence
    7. 4.7 Goals, Efficacy, and Morality in Institutionalized Violence and Violation
  13. Chapter 5. Ritual Cannibalism: A Case Study of Socially-Sanctioned Group Violence
    1. 5.1 Introduction
    2. 5.2 The Global Incidence and Correlates of Cannibalism
    3. 5.3 The Purposes and Forms of Cannibalism
    4. 5.4 Morality and Affect in Customary Cannibalism
    5. 5.5 The Demise of Customary Cannibalism
  14. Chapter 6. Sanctioned Violence, Morality, and Cultural Evolution
    1. 6.1 Introduction
    2. 6.2 The Pattern of Successive Forms of Socially-Sanctioned Violence
    3. 6.3 Directed Cultural Evolution and Priorities Among Human Needs
    4. 6.4 The End of Socially-Sanctioned Forms of Violence
  15. Appendix: The Debate on the Existence of Cannibalism
  16. Bibliography
  17. About the Author
  18. About the Editors

Editors’ Note | Toward a Theory of Peace: The Role of Moral Beliefs | Cornell University Press

Editors’ Note

Toward a Theory of Peace: The Role of Moral Beliefs is an edited version of the thesis by the same name submitted by Randall Caroline Watson Forsberg in May 1997 to the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was studying for her Ph.D. The thesis was certified in June 1997 by Forsberg’s thesis supervisor, Joshua Cohen, then professor of philosophy and political science, and accepted by Barry R. Posen, professor of political science and then chairman of the Graduate Program Committee. The current volume was copyedited, corrected, and reformatted for publication by Sandra J. Kisner, administrative assistant at the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at Cornell University, under our oversight. It is published with permission from MIT.

We are grateful above all to Sandra for her meticulous work; to Hirokazu Miyazaki, former director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, for endorsing publication of this book in the Cornell Global Perspectives series and providing funding for the workshop associated with its release; to Dean Smith, director of Cornell University Press, and his staff for their support; to Jonathan Miller of the Einaudi Center for his editorial and production help, including with the online version of this book; to Jill Breithbart for the cover design; to Elaine Scott for administrative support at the Reppy Institute; to Judith Reppy for general wisdom, for editorial advice, and for preserving the archive of the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies, upon which we drew for our introductory essay; to Agnieszka Nimark for preparing the archive for deposit at Cornell University Library; and to Evan Earle, Cornell University Archivist, for welcoming the collection and making it available to the public.

Matthew Evangelista, Professor of Government, Cornell University

Neta C. Crawford, Professor of Political Science, Boston University

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