violence

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/16/19
  

  The accused New Zealand shooter and an all-white Europe that never existed

  Brenton Tarrant covered his arsenal with symbols and names that medieval historians say are being misused by white supremacists.

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• 2/10/19
  

  Combatting Crimes against History

  by Antoon De Baets

  Those who died while exercising their right to history are testimony to the fact that the historian’s craft is vulnerable, that its integrity needs constant vigilance and protection, that the defence of its basic principles is a duty for all, always, and everywhere.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  10/5/18
  

  30 years ago Pinochet proposed using violence to change the outcome of a plebiscite on his dictatorship

  Officials refused to implement his plan. He lost and the dictatorship ended. 

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• SOURCE: Scientific American
  11-9-17
  

  Steven Pinker: This Is History's Most Peaceful Time--New Study: "Not So Fast"

  War deaths have increased dramatically in the modern era, new research contends, despite other statistics that suggest the risks of becoming a victim of violence have lessened.

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• SOURCE: Nature
  9-28-16
  

  New Study: Lethal violence deep in the human lineage

  Researchers estimate that the incidence of human lethal violence at the time of the origin of our species was about six times higher than for the average mammal, but about as violent as expected, given our great-ape ancestry.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  7-22-16
  

  Experts: Violent years, seasons come in waves

  "There are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen."

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• 7-14-16
  

  Our Week from Hell

  by Walter G. Moss

  Race and guns, April 1968 and July 2016.

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• SOURCE: Twitter
  7-12-16 (accessed)
  

  Twitter lights up with a counter hashtag: #AllLivesDidn'tMatter

  It’s in response to the AllLivesMatter meme.

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• 7-17-16
  

  The Appalling Violence of the World’s Three Superpowers

  by Lawrence S. Wittner

  Russia, China and the USA are among the world’s most violent societies at home and pose the greatest threat to the continued existence of civilization.

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• 1-12-16
  

  Why This Historian Is Worried for His Country

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  As the author of a book on presidential assassinations, he’s concerned the ugly rhetoric of this election will lead to an act of violence.

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• 11-21-15
  

  The Long Frightening History of White Police Officers Shooting Innocent Black Suspects

  by Edward Freedman

  Officers’ tendency to see what they fear can make them dangerously fallible. A society that shares this conditioning is inclined to dismiss their mistakes.

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• 5-25-15
  

  New Study: The world's a lot more violent than reported

  by Rick Shenkman

  The famed social scientist Nassim "Black Swan" Taleb is out with a new paper that claims violence in the past and present has been underestimated.  

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• 4-18-15
  

  Historicizing Ferguson: Police Violence and the Genesis of a National Movement

  This video features statements by three local activists in Ferguson, Missouri who joined the movement to protest police violence after the shooting of Michael Brown last summer.

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  1-19-15
  

  MLK protege teaches nonviolence to new generation (video)

  Long after Martin Luther King's death, his message of non-violence is carried by a protege.

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• 1-16-15
  

  Does Gun Control = Death Control?

  by William Heuisler

  "Eleven American cities – Chicago, New Orleans, Detroit, Los Angeles, Jacksonville (Fla.), Miami, Orlando, Omaha, Atlanta, Aurora, IL, and Dallas, account for over 70% of all American gun homicides."

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• 12-7-14
  

  What if Americans Outlawed Private Gun Ownership?

  by Jeff Roquen

  Imagine how different the world might be if Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King had lived.

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• SOURCE: New Republic
  4-1-14
  

  The World Is Much Safer Than 20th-Century Historians Would Have You Believe

  by Ali Wyne

  We should heed historians' warnings, but we should also appreciate the progress that global security has made in the intervening century.

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• Clinging to Mass Violence

  by Lawrence S. Wittner

  Resorting to violence is a long-term, deeply-ingrained habit in human history, and is not easily discarded.

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• From the Bloody Nursery of Revolution, Democracy

  by Guillaume Mazeau

  More than two years after the hope that accompanied the so-called “Arab Spring,” the Occidental experts, politicians and public opinions are now chocked by the return of political violence in Egypt, perpetuated by the military. What is striking about these reactions is the difficulty to understand why so many Egyptian former dissidents, liberals and even leftists, who fought against Mubarak and his military dictatorship, now clearly support General Al-Sisi’s coup and even justify the recent massacres of Muslim Brothers. Is it possible to explain such a dramatic shift without blaming these sincere men and women, who claim to struggle for democracy but, at the same time, approve the use of political violence?

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• How Democracy Enables Violence

  by Allen C. Guelzo

  Credit: Wiki Commons.