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War has never been inevitable. But for most of human history, we have acted as if it were. THE PRICE OF PEACE is a landmark work of narrative non-fiction that dares to ask the question no government wants answered and no defense budget can afford to ignore: What if organized violence is not humanity's destiny-but its most expensive, most persistent, and most correctable mistake? Drawing on decades of data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the Uppsala Conflict Data Program, the Institute for Economics and Peace, and primary research from leading conflict economists and peace psychologists, [Author Name] constructs an airtight case that the $17.5 trillion we lose annually to the global cost of violence is not the price of human nature. It is the price of collective imagination failure. Through the story of Maria-a nine-year-old girl in the Central African Republic doing her homework on an ammunition crate while armored vehicles pass two hundred kilometers away-through the neuroscience of why our brains predict war as normal, through the architectural genius that turned France and Germany from seventy-year enemies into partners, this book reveals: Why $2.443 trillion in annual military spending is a choice-not a necessity How the European Union created the longest peace in its members' recorded history-without changing human nature What brain science tells us about why we cannot imagine peace-and how to rewire that limitation Why conflict prevention returns $16 for every $1 invested-and why we still choose war What slavery, apartheid, and the Berlin Wall tell us about the shelf life of ""inevitable"" systems Part intellectual history, part economic argument, part manifesto for a civilization grown tired of its own worst habits, THE PRICE OF PEACE is for every reader who has ever looked at the morning news and wondered whether any of this is actually necessary. It is. And it isn't. And the distance between those two answers is where this book lives.

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