In the first half of this edited two-part podcast, Professor Paul Seabright discusses what’s known about levels of violence since prehistoric times as part of a presentation entitled "How have human beings tamed our warring instincts?". Audio on this podcast is accompanied by slides.
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.
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).
You can visit Paul Seabright’s webpage here and read a brief interview about his views on the emergence of human co-operation here.
Tuesday, 10 July 2007
