Towards integrating the behavioural sciences to meet the threats of violence and war.

Abstract

This paper provides a framework for integrating issues in the behavioural and social sciences concerned with the relations between individual aggression and war, and the steps that must be taken to reduce them. It is emphasized that violence is not an inevitable consequence of man's nature, that collective violence involves principles additional to those involved in individual acts of aggression, and that war is an institution involving diverse roles each with its attendant rights and duties. Psychological and other behavioural sciences can make considerable contributions to ameliorating the threat of war.