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" Lowest estimate Highest estimate Event Location From To Religions involved Percentage of the world population[21] 3,000,000 11,500,000[22] Thirty Years' War Holy Roman Empire 1618 1648 Protestants and Catholics 0.5%-2.1% 2,000,000 4,000,000[23] French Wars of Religion France 1562 1598 Protestants and Catholics 0.4%-0.8% 1,000,000 3,000,000[24] Nigerian Civil War Nigeria 1967 1970 Islam and Christian 0.03%-0.09% 1,000,000[25] 2,000,000 Second Sudanese Civil War Sudan 1983 2005 Islam and Christian 0.02% 1,000,000[26] 3,000,000[27] Crusades Holy Land, Europe 1095 1291 Islam and Christian 0.3%-2.3% 130,000[28] 250,000 Lebanese Civil War Lebanon 1975 1990 Sunni, Shiite and Christian [edit]Wars by religion"

Psychologist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker at Harvard University thinks it is completely conceivable that wars between countries might go the way of slave auctions, debtors' prisons and other barbaric customs.