Roberto Vivo posits that ‘the massively violent (and thus inevitable) death of innocent people is a fundamental issue of war. Everything else is merely circumstantial, and, to the extent that it is celebrated, improper.’
This is a necessary book, but it is one that covers so many fields of knowledge that it could not have been written by an academic, who would have had to exhaust every last detail under scientific discussion. And there is so much information and analysis contained here that it couldn’t have been analyzed from the viewpoint of a single discipline.

Roberto Vivo Chaneton is a singular personality. He is one who has never limited his quest and his activity to a single focus.
In an age of specialists, he is a humanist. He was the driving force behind publications that denoted sensitivity and a cultivated outlook. For some time now, Roberto has devoted effort to philosophical and historical reflection, managing to delve deeply into human aggression, in search of pathways toward peace.

Roberto Vivo’s comprehensive exposition of the origins and causes of war elucidates the problems and solutions needed for a more humane world.
It should be mandatory reading for all heads of state and young people on whom future peace depends.