Violence has only in the past two or three decades become a topic of explicit concern among cultural anthropologists. Anthropology teach us to prevent violence and the tragedy of genocide in Rwanda. William Ury, who is an American author and anthropologists, applied anthropology in peacemaking. Ury wrote a book about peacemaking and many ways to prevent conflict. He believes that it is only in the most recent 1% of human history that war and violence have been accepted as "human nature." Ury’s conflict resolution work and his assertion that violence is a choice because human beings have as much inherent potential for corporation and coexistence as they do for violent conflict. Therefore, anthropology teaches us to prevent conflicts from happening
