Along with UW-Madison students, Professor Nam C. Kim will share an anthropologist- archaeologist’s view of the history of warfare and share family connections to armed conflict. He’ll discuss warfare/peacefare throughout human history. Peacefare is a counterpoint to warfare. Culture allows for war and peace. It takes cooperation to avoid or prevent war, and the archaeological record shows that societies make huge investments in conflict avoidance, ceremonies to prevent war, marriages for alliance building, trade as a political alliance, and signaling peaceful intentions to outsiders.
