There are plenty of reasons to despair about the state of the world: ISIL’s depredations in the Middle East, Boko Haram’s atrocities in Nigeria, and Russia’s slow-drip incursion into Ukraine are just a few. These phenomena are more distressing when one considers that they’re occurring against the backdrop of an eroding postwar order. Contrary to the oft-heard refrain, though, that the world is becoming more dangerous — or, according to some observers, has never been more dangerous — it has actually never been safer. Steven Pinker and Andrew Mack recently documented the declines in global rates of homicide, violence …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
