slavery in

  torture in

  Tuchman on

  warfare in

  witch hunts in

  Middle East:

  human rights devalued in

  legal discrimination in

  national borders in

  peace efforts in

  slavery in

  wars in

  Midianites

  midwestern U.S., homicides in

  Milgram, Stanley

  militarized interstate disputes

  military conscription

  military horizon

  military personnel, see armed forces

  military revolution

  military symbolism, see martial culture and values

  militias

  Mill, John Stuart

  Million Man March

  Milner, Larry

  Milner, Peter

  Milošević, Slobodan

  Milton, John

  Min, Anchee

  mirror neurons

  Mischel, Walter

  Moabites

  Moby-Dick

  modernity

  Moffitt, Terri

  Mokkeddem, Malike

  Moltke, Helmuth von

  monarchy

  Age of Dynasties

  and filicide

  hereditary

  regicide

  Mondeville, Henri de, Chirurgia

  Mongols

  monism

  monkeys

  Monkkonen, Eric

  monogamy; see also marriage

  Monroe, James

  Montagu, Mary Wortley

  Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de

  Montenegrin tribes

  Monterey Pop Festival

  Montesinos, Father Antonio de

  Montesquieu, Baron de la

  Montreal

  Moon, Keith

  moral disengagement

  morality

  compartmentalization of

  cultural differences in

  Golden Rule

  historical direction of

  and information

  and law

  norms of

  punishable infractions of

  relational models and

  standards of

  themes of

  universalized

  and violence

  Moralization Gap

  moral psychology; see also morality; moral sense

  moral sense:

  and fiction

  as force for evil

  introduction of concept

  of people in earlier times

  and reason

  see also morality; moral psychology

  More, Thomas

  Morgenthau, Hans

  Mormon church

  Moro, Aldo

  Moses

  Mossadegh, Mohammad

  Mosse, George

  Mother Goose nursery rhymes

  mountainous terrain

  Moynihan, Daniel Patrick

  Moyo, Dambisa

  Mozambique

  Mozi (Chinese philosopher)

  Mueller, John

  Muhammad

  Muhammad, John

  Muppets

  Murray, Charles

  museums

  Mussolini, Benito

  mutualism

  mutually assured destruction (MAD)

  Muyart de Vouglans, Pierre-François

  myopia, historical, see historical myopia

  myopic discounting

  Myrmidons

  Nafisi, Azar

  NAFTA

  Napier, Charles

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Napoleonic Wars

  narcissistic personality disorder

  Nash, George

  Nation, Carrie

  nation, use of term

  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

  National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism

  National Counterterrorism Center

  National Crime Victimization Survey

  nationalism:

  Age of Nationalism

  blood and soil

  and decolonization

  and dominance

  and genocide

  and liberalism

  militant

  romantic

  and social class

  National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health

  nation-states

  Native Americans:

  and cannibalism

  genocide of

  Kennewick Man

  of Pacific Northwest

  revenge among

  Trail of Tears

  treatment of animals

  violence among

  NATO

  natural resources

  natural selection

  nature, state of

  Nazism:

  and animal welfare

  and Elias

  and face-to-face killing

  and genocide

  in Germany

  and Holocaust

  ideology of

  and nationalism

  and World War II

  Negroponte, John

  Neolithic Revolution

  neonaticide; see also infanticide

  neoteny

  nepotistic altruism; see also kin selection

  Nero, Emperor

  Netherlands

  commerce in

  Dutch War of Louis XIV

  and great power wars

  homicides in

  War of Independence

  network externalities

  neurotransmitters; see also catecholamines; dopamine; MAO-A; norepinephrine; serotonin

  neutron bomb

  New England:

  Boston police

  homicides

  Native Americans exterminated in

  revolutionary Boston

  New Guinea

  New Netherland colony

  New Peace

  and climate change

  and democracy

  and genocide

  introduction of concept

  non-European war

  and terrorism

  Newton, Isaac

  New York City:

  draft riots (1863)

  homicides in

  police

  Stonewall Inn riot

  Nicaragua

  Niebuhr, Reinhold

  Nietzsche, Friedrich

  9/11, see September 11 attacks

  1960s

  Nisbett, Richard

  Nixon, Richard M.

  Nobel, Alfred

  Noble Savage myth

  nonstate societies:

  cooperation in

  data sources of

  deaths from warfare in

  emergence of

  fighting in

  violence rates in

  norepinephrine

  normal distribution

  norms:

  of civilized society

  and crime rates

  of etiquette

  evaluation of

  informal

  internalized

  and morality

  in 1960s counterculture

  of nonviolence

  of purity

  social

  tacit

  territorial integrity

  of war as immoral

  see also etiquette; moral sense; taboos

  North Korea

  noses:

  blowing

  cutting off

  Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty

  nuclear peace theory

  nuclear taboo

  nuclear terrorism

  nuclear threat

  nuclear weapons

  Nunberg, Geoffrey

  Nunn, Sam

  Nuremberg Trials

  nursery rhymes

  Nurture Assumption

  Nussbaum, Martha

  Oatley, Keith

  Obama, Barack

  obedience; see also Milgram, Stanley

  Odysseus

&n
bsp; Oklahoma City bombing

  Olds, James

  Oneal, John

  One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (film)

  openness to experience

  Operation Ceasefire

  Opium Wars

  Oppenheimer, Robert

  opponent-process theory of emotion

  optimal foraging

  orientation, long- vs. short-term

  Orwell, George

  Otterbein, Keith

  Ottoman Empire

  Ötzi the Iceman

  overconfidence

  Owen, Wilfred

  oxytocin

  Oz, Amos

  Pacification Process

  civilization

  human societies

  introduction of concept

  logic of violence

  use of term

  violence in human ancestors

  violence in state and nonstate societies

  Pacific Northwest

  pacifism

  Pacifist’s Dilemma

  and empathy

  and feminization

  and gentle commerce

  and Leviathan

  and reason

  Pakistan

  Al Qaeda in

  and India

  and terrorism

  Pale of Settlement

  Palestine

  Panksepp, Jaak

  Papua New Guinea; see also New Guinea

  Parachini, John

  paramilitaries

  Pareto, Vilfredo

  Pareto Principle

  Parker, Theodore

  Parks, Rosa

  Pascal, Blaise

  pastoralism

  Pate, Amy

  Patrick, Saint

  patrilocal societies

  Patterson, Orlando

  Patz, Etan

  Pauling, Linus

  Paul IV, Pope

  Payne, James L.

  peacekeepers, international

  peace negotiations

  peace theories

  capitalist

  democratic

  Kantian

  liberal

  nuclear

  pedomorphy

  Peel, Sir Robert

  Peloponnesian War

  Pepys, Samuel

  Perry, William

  personality; see also antisocial personality disorder; attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; borderline personality disorder; empathy; narcissistic personality disorder; openness to experience; psychopaths

  perspective-sympathy hypothesis

  perspective-taking; see also empathy; mentalizing; theory of mind

  Peru

  Peter, Saint

  Pforspundt, Heinrich von

  Philadelphia

  Philippines

  Piaget, Jean

  Pillay, Navanethem

  Pinker, Steven:

  The Blank Slate

  How the Mind Works

  The Stuff of Thought

  Pipes, Richard

  piracy

  pituitary gland

  Pizarro, David

  Plato

  plausible deniability

  pluralistic ignorance

  Plutarch

  Podhoretz, Norman

  pogroms; see also ethnic riots, deadly

  Poincaré, Henri

  poison, repugnance about

  poison gas; see also chemical weapons

  Poisson, Siméon-Denis

  Poisson process

  Poland

  polarization

  police states, use of term

  political correctness

  political discourse, sophistication of

  Political Instability Task Force (PITF)

  political murder; see also assassinations; despotism; regicide

  politicide; see also genocide

  politics, psychology of; see also liberalism, and conservatism; norms; taboos

  Polity Project

  Pol Pot

  polygamy

  polygyny

  Pope, Alexander

  population growth

  populism

  pornography

  Portugal

  positive illusions; see also overconfidence

  positive-sum games; see also gentle commerce

  postmodernism

  Potts, Malcolm

  poverty

  Powell, Colin

  power-law distributions

  and coalitions

  80:20 rule

  of genocides

  scale-free nature of

  of terrorism

  thick tails of

  of wars

  practical violence, see predatory violence

  praetorian regimes; see also anocracy

  Pran, Dith

  Pratto, Felicia

  predatory violence

  cause of war

  against groups

  introduction of concept

  means-end reasoning

  and overconfidence

  predictions

  of science

  statistical

  predictions, erroneous:

  abolishing capital punishment as increasing violence

  abolishing debt bondage as doom of capitalism

  abortions as leading to infanticide and child abuse

  African American terrorism

  crime boom in 1990s

  democracy as obsolescent

  9/11-style attacks weekly

  nuclear arms race in East Asia

  nuclear attacks during Cold War