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The Top 6 Book About The Causes of Conflict
1. The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century – Walter Scheidel 2. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion – Jonathan Haidt 3. Violence: Six Sideways Reflections – Slavoj Žižek 4.
- The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century – Walter Scheidel
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion – Jonathan Haidt
- Violence: Six Sideways Reflections – Slavoj Žižek
- The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch – Jonathan Gottschall
- On Violence – Hannah Arendt
- To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche – Erich Fromm
**Further Reading **
- The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness – Erich Fromm
- On Aggression – Konrad Lorenz
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