Biodata: Robert J. Burrowes has a lifetime commitment to understanding and ending human violence. He has done extensive research since 1966 in an effort to understand why human beings are violent and has been a nonviolent activist since 1981. He is the author of 'Why Violence?' http://tinyurl.com/whyviolence His email address is flametree@riseup.net and his website is at http://robertjburrowes.wordpress.com

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29 October 2016


Punishment is a popular pastime for humans. Parents punish children. Teachers punish students. Employers punish workers. Courts punish lawbreakers....

12 October 2016


As the evidence mounts that we are fast approaching the final point-of-no-return beyond which it will be impossible to take sufficient effective...

30 September 2016


As most of the world ignores or hypocritically celebrates the 147th birthday of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on the International Day of Nonviolence...

06 September 2016



As I read of the latest coup in Brazil, once again removing a democratically elected leader from power, my anger surged. Not again! However...

24 August 2016

I sometimes wonder whether one of the ways in which 'Amercian exceptionalism' manifests is that many US scholars and others are unable to consider the...

13 July 2016


One of the many interesting details to be learned by understanding human psychology is how a person's unconscious fear works in a myriad of ways to...

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