Why We Fight
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
This event has been rescheduled for 5pm Monday 25 June
The Changing Character of War’s Conflict Platform team is delighted to host Mike Martin for a seminar on ‘Why We Fight’, drawing on his recently published book of the same name.

When we go to war, morality, religion and ideology often take the blame. Mike argues that the opposite is true: rather than driving violence, these things help to reduce it. While we resort to ideas and values to justify or interpret warfare, something else is really propelling us towards conflict: our subconscious desires, shaped by millions of years of evolution.

His previous books include An Intimate War: An Oral History of the Helmand Conflict and Crossing the Congo: Over Land and Water in a Hard Place, the latter of which was shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Adventure Travel Writing Award in 2016.
Date: 18 June 2018, 17:00 (Monday, 9th week, Trinity 2018)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Speaker: Mike Martin (KCL)
Organising department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editors: Holly Omand, Minna Lehtinen