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Frequently asked questions

Interviews in ‘The End of Conflict’

Intractable conflicts are sometimes more tractable than we think

Professor Steven Pinker

Johnstone Family Professor in Psychology, Harvard University, and author of “The Better Angels of Our Nature”

If we felt safer, there would be less conflict

Anna Rosling-Rönnlund

Co-author of “Factfulness” and co-founder of Gapminder Foundation

Preparation gives you confidence and gets you better results

Paul Fisher

Programme Director of Oxford Programme on Negotiation, Saïd Business School, Oxford University

My superpower is I can read people’s T-shirts

Scott Tillema

Retired negotiator with Chicago area SWAT team and co-founder of The Negotiations Collective

If I’m no longer blaming and attacking, I can break the cycle

Shona Cameron

Psychologist and Non-Violent Communication trainer

I think of the printing press as adding an exponential factor

Dr Joanne Paul

Historian, author of “The House of Dudley”

Greater intelligence will lead to breakthroughs in many fields

David Wood

Chair of London Futurists, co-founder of Symbian

We bring decision science to help resolve disputes

Bob Bergman

CEO Next Level Mediation LLC

Helping the machine understand the human better

Leslie Nooteboom

Co-Founder of Requesty.ai and Humanising Autonomy

Helping your staff find better motivation

Benny Traub

COO, Inspira.ai

It was great chatting with you!

Blandy

AI sales bot from Bland.AI

The state of play right now

Matthew Leopold

Head of Brand, PR and Content Marketing, LexisNexis UK

Polling for peace

Colin Irwin

Research Fellow, Liverpool University

AI on the front line

Pascal da Rocha

Dialogue and Mediation Advisor

Five years to save the world but I’m optimistic!

Tony Czarnecki

Managing Partner at Sustensis, futurist and author of six books on the topic

We have to be more critical of the AI

Professor Melissa Terras

Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, University of Edinburgh, ex-Turing Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute

Bibliography

I really enjoyed the huge research project that led to “The End of Conflict”. I read hundreds of articles and academic papers and countless books informed the project indirectly but the list below is of all the books that went directly into the research, roughly in order of reference sequence within the book.

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  • Kant, Immanuel (2016). “Perpetual Peace; A Philosophical Essay” Translated by Smith, Mary C. Project Gutenberg.
  • Wells, H.G. (1914) “The War That Will End All War”, (Duffield & Company)
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  • Runciman, D (2023) “The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs” (Profile Books) ISBN 9781788163675
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  • Pakenham, T (1991) “The Scramble for Africa, 1876-1912” (Weidenfeld & Nicholson) ISBN 9780297811305
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