Overlooked and Underappreciated

Although war and other types of violence may be very noticeable, a close examination of cross-cultural data reveals that people usually deal with conflict without violence. Humans have a solid capacity for getting along with each other peacefully, preventing physical aggression, limiting the scope and spread of violence, and restoring peace following aggression.1 In this chapter we will consider a couple of ethnographic cases that illustrate this human potential for peace-the nonwarring, nonfeuding Siriano and Paliyan.

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