The Seville Statement on Violence

Can war be abolished? Is it a custom or is it intrinsic to human nature? These questions are of great importance today, because there is no task more important on the historical agenda of our times than the abolition of this age-old custom that has become so destructive that it threatens the very life of the planet. As Sigmund Freud wrote to Albert Einstein in their famous correspondence of 1932 on this subject, "These two factors--man's cultural disposition and well-founded fear of the form that future wars will take-- may serve to put an end to war... but by what ways or byways this will come about, we cannot guess." Studies among various populations have found that about half of all young peopl