As Prof. Paul Eidelberg (Bar-Ilan University, [[Israel]]) points out, this ignores certain imperatives that one or both parties might have to instigate the conflict, quite apart from any relative differences in the state of material abundance or scarcity between them. It ignores, for instance, the conflicts that arise ''within'' groups of persons, all enjoying the ''same'' level of material substance. | As Prof. Paul Eidelberg (Bar-Ilan University, [[Israel]]) points out, this ignores certain imperatives that one or both parties might have to instigate the conflict, quite apart from any relative differences in the state of material abundance or scarcity between them. It ignores, for instance, the conflicts that arise ''within'' groups of persons, all enjoying the ''same'' level of material substance. |