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A contemporary world perspective that deals with direct forms of killings perpetrated by the state and nonstate actors is probed here. The problems of homicide, suicide, ecocide, war and war crimes, death penalty, terrorism, mass killing and genocide in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have been highlighted as a hindrance to the establishment of nonkilling peace.
Fanaticism is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic.
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