In the second half of this edited two-part podcast, Paul Seabright discusses perspectives from behavioural economics and neuroscience of potential help in understanding violence as part of a presentation entitled "How have human beings tamed our warring instincts?". Slides accompany audio on this podcast.
This podcast is an edited recording of Professor Seabright’s presentation at a Disarmament Insight symposium on ‘Human Security, Human Nature and Trust-building in Negotiations’ held near Geneva on 25 May 2007. Part 1 (‘Warring instincts: what do we know about levels of violence’) is accessible here.
Paul Seabright is Professor of Economics at the University of Toulouse, France. He is author of The Company of Strangers: a Natural History of Economic Life (Princeton University Press, 2004).
Friday, 20 July 2007
