When I began my research for this chapter, I knew that the decades of the Long Peace and the New Peace were also decades of progress for racial minorities, women, children, gay people, and animals. But I had no idea that in every case, quantifiable measures of violence -- hate crimes and rape, wife-beating and child abuse, even the number of motion pictures in which animals were harmed -- would all point downward. How can we make sense of all the movements toward nonviolence of the past fifty years?

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