ABSTRACT
Apes to humans, but not as good to stay fit and healthy – this is how natural selection and evolution seemed to have worked. An important feature of human evolution has been the development of the skull, and rising cranial capacity. Intelligence gave man an ever-increasing advantage over all other species. That very intelligence propelled innovations that helped raise standards of living, but affected the environment, ending up in concerns on climate change and global warming. Had there been no violence within and across nations, the world would have been an oasis of peace and tranquility. Promoting peace and global beloved community through non-violence is the objective of the Center for Non-violence and Peace Studies of the University of Rhode Island. The practice of economics based on free/efficient markets hardly allows for addressing the problem of income and wealth inequality. Since the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Human Development Index has been widely accepted as a better measure.
