That has been the solution to many conflicts. For example, when one or both parties to a potential civil war are not prepared to accept a shared solution, or, there is no mechanism to find, or implement, a new mutually acceptable status quo, perhaps war, or the separation of the parties in to new countries, is the only way to resolve the conflict. Perhaps, when those systems break down war is still possible, or, is even inevitable. Most civil wars in recent history took place despite all of the above apparently being in place. If war were hard-wired, and made possible by time and resource availability, such trading and cooperation structures as the EU would not prevent war. Possibly where there is shared law, and equal access to justice, creating the mechanisms of trust, people generally live in peace, despite any minor disagreements. Perhaps people who trade together, work together and make decisions together, and have peaceful ways of resolving the inevitable conflicts, don’t make war on each other. What explains the outbreak of nearly 80 years of peace? However, since the foundation of the forerunner of the EU in the aftermath of WWII, (created to prevent war), there have been no wars between any members of the EU, despite having the same gene pool, and vast time and resources being available. In the last 3000 years there have been few periods without war in Europe where richer nations appeared to have the genes, the time and resources. If wars only began after some people had the free time and the status to direct it, that indicates: the desire for war is not hard-wired, or, if hard-wired, the desire for war requires that time and resources are available for any such genes to be expressed. That in turn, enabled some people to live off the labour of others a ‘ leadership‘ class then emerged. Organising the mass production of food freed many people from the never ending cycle of hunting and gathering. The emergence of war coincides with the creation of agrarian systems and societies. Many anthropologists and archaeologists have provided evidence that human warfare emerged around only 6000 to 10000 years ago.
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