Peace

The concept of peace ranks among the most controversial in our time. Peace undoubtedly carries a positive connotation; almost nobody admits to opposing peace; world peace is widely seen as one of the most noble goals of humanity. Various groups, however, differ sharply about what peace entails, how best to achieve peace, and whether peace is even truly possible.

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• Peace camp : form of nonviolent protest.
• Peace churches : Christian groups in the pacifist tradition.
• Peace movement : social movement that seeks achieve ideals such as the ending of a particular war (or all wars), minimize inter-human violence in a particular place or type of situation, often linked to the goal of achieving world peace.
• Peace process : describes efforts by interested parties to effect a lasting solution to long-running conflicts.
• Peace symbol : representation or object that has come to symbolize peace.
• Peace treaty : agreement (a peace treaty) between two hostile parties, usually countries or governments, that formally ends a war or armed conflict.
• World peace : future ideal of freedom, peace and happiness among and within all nations.

Human condition and beliefs

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• Christian anarchism : belief that there is only one source of authority to which Christians are ultimately answerable, the authority of God as embodied in the teachings of Jesus.
• Democratic peace theory : theory in politics and political science which holds that democracies?specifically, liberal democracies?never or almost never go to war with one another.
• Inner peace (or peace of mind) : colloquialism that refers to a state of being mentally or spiritually at peace, with enough knowledge and understanding to keep onself strong in the face of discord or stress.
• Nonviolence : set of assumptions about morality, power and conflict that leads its proponents to reject the use of violence in efforts to attain social or political goals.
• Pacifism : opposition to the use of force to settle disagreements, specifically the taking up of arms in war.
• Peace and Conflict Studies : interdisciplinary inquiry into war as human condition and peace as human potential, as an alternative to the traditional Polemology and the strategies taught at Military academies.
• Satyagraha : philosophy of non-violent resistance most famously employed by Mahatma Gandhi.
• Utopia : hypothetical perfect society.

Things

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• Japanese Peace Bell : gift of the people of Japan ("People of Nippon") to the United Nations on June 8, 1954.
• Nobel Peace Prize : one of five Nobel Prizes requested by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.

Organizations

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• American Friends Service Committee : religious Society of Friends (Quaker) affiliated organization which works for social justice, peace and reconciliation, abolition of the death penalty, and human rights, and provides humanitarian relief.
• Peacekeeping : personnel units of the United Nations deployed as a way to help countries torn by conflict create conditions for sustainable peace.
• United States Department of Peace : proposed cabinet-level department of the executive branch of the U.S. government.

Lists

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• List of places named after peace
• Projects working for peace among Israelis and Arabs : many projects that work to create a peaceful and productive co-existence between Israelis and Arabs including the Palestinians.