Armed Conflict

War is often said to be rooted in multiple sources located at various levels of psychoanalysis (individual, state, or global) and compare the contributions that theories at each level have made to our understanding of the causes of war.Oxford Dictionary defines war as any active hostility or struggle between living beings a conflict between opposing forces or principles (qtd. in Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy para. 8). Since the etiology of war is grasped from many a(prenominal) sub-disciplines, it is but wise to learn about it based on three groupings namely those who seek wars causation in mans biology (individual), those that seek it in his glossiness (global), and those who seek it in his faculty of reason.These determinants of war could give a better understanding as why it happens despite the detrimental effects it does to mankind particularly in monetary value of individual and global analysis.Individually, Some take away war to be a product of mans inherited biolog y, with disagreements raging on the ensuing predestinarian implications (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy para. 18). According to the International Encyclopedia of Philosophy,Example theories include those that claim man to be naturally aggressive or naturally territorial, much complex analyses incorporate game theory and genetic evolution to explain the occurrence of violence and war (cf. Richard Dawkins for interesting comments on this area).Within this broad school of thought, virtually accept that mans belligerent drives can be channeled into more peaceful pursuits (William James), some worry about mans lack of inherited inhibitions to fight with increasingly dangerous weapons (Konrad Lorenz), and others claim the natural process of evolution will sustain peaceful modes of behavior over violent (Richard Dawkins) (para. 18).Rejecting biological determinism, culturalists seek to explain wars causation in terms of particular cultural institutions (Internet Encyclopedia of Phil osophy para.