• The best books on The Decline of Violence - The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World by Oona Hathaway & Scott Shapiro
  • The best books on The Decline of Violence - Homicide by Martin Daly and Margo Wilson
  • The best books on The Decline of Violence - Statistics of Deadly Quarrels by Lewis F Richardson
  • The best books on The Decline of Violence - Violent Land by David Courtwright
  • The best books on The Decline of Violence - The Remnants of War by John Mueller
  • The best books on The Decline of Violence - Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty by Roy Baumeister

The best books on The Decline of Violence, recommended by Steven Pinker

Our TV screens may be full of news about war and crime, but this masks a fall in historical terms in the number of violent deaths that’s nothing short of astonishing, says Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker. He tells us how and why this happened. (This interview was updated 17 December, 2020, to include books that have come out since it was published in 2011)