Raymond Keeley- Is warfare inevitable?

Warfare has always wedged its way into society giving us a rather broad paradigm that warfare is indeed an unavoidable aspect of human society. To explain this concept, we must first view an arising question of how war occurs. If we can find the source of war, we could even possibly root it out of existence. In Raymond Keeyle’s War Before Civilization, we learn that there are two major anthropologic sides to the recurring question: “What causes war?”
One of the two sides is the Hobbesian realist view that war is essentially unavoidable due to an anarchic system lacking any central authority. The opposing Rosseauian view claims that war happens when the need to gain materially from another arises. The Semai of the Malaysian mountains and the Kung of Southern Africa challenge the necessity of war altogether. Both of these tribes are famous for their peaceful nature and have not engaged in war. The Rosseauian view might ...