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"Why do wars exist? Can we ask ourselves why peace exists?" These are some of the questions Steven Pinker asks in The Better Angels of Our Nature, an exceptional work in which he exposes the research carried out on the preponderance of violence throughout history. We can now enjoy peace because past generations lived gripped by violence and this forced them to strive to set limits on it, and in the contemporary world it is we who have the duty to work to put an end to it. We must not be carried away by optimism but, at least, we now know that this is a goal that is within our reach.

"Why do wars exist? Can we ask ourselves why peace exists?" These are some of the questions Steven Pinker asks in The Better Angels of Our Nature, an exceptional work in which he exposes the research carried out on the preponderance of violence throughout history. We can now enjoy peace because past generations lived gripped by violence and this forced them to strive to set limits on it, and in the contemporary world it is we who have the duty to work to put an end to it. We must not be carried away by optimism but, at least, we now know that this is a goal that is within our reach.