Introduction

This section is a selection of the papers presented at the 15th International Colloquium on the Brain and Aggression, held in Mexico City in September 2007, focusing on a bioethical dimension of aggression and violence.The United Nations has aimed from the outset, to establish genuine peace among and between peoples on the basis of the consensus to identify universal human rights and to limit violence and oppression.The preamble to the Charter of the United Nations accordingly states: ''We the peoples of the United Nations determined . . . to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war''.Drawing on the abovementioned preamble, on the occasion of the World Congress on Aggression held in Mexico City in 1982, an interdisciplinary group of scientists established a working group under the name, ''The International Colloquium on the Brain and Aggression (CICA)'', with the goal of elucidating, in the light of modern scientific discoveries, whether violence and war were an inevitable part of human nature or whether, conversely, human beings could manage conflict peacefully.After 4 years of study 29 scientists from 13 countries met in Seville, Spain, in May 1986, under CICA's auspices, to finalise the draft compilation of their arguments.The document, known as

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