Peace
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace [...] tear down this wall!"--Ronald Reagan to Mikhail Gorbachev, Friday, June 12, 1987 "This is the voice of world control. I bring you peace."--Colossus in Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) "The Abbe de Saint-Pierre suggested an association of all the states of Europe to maintain perpetual peace among themselves."--Emile, or On Education (1762) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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Peace is an occurrence of harmony characterized by lack of violence, conflict behaviors and the freedom from fear of violence. Commonly understood as the absence of hostility and retribution, peace also suggests sincere attempts at reconciliation, the existence of healthy or newly healed interpersonal or international relationships, prosperity in matters of social or economic welfare, the establishment of equality, and a working political order that serves the true interests of all.
The symbol designed for the British nuclear disarmament movement in 1958 is now widely known as the "peace sign".
See also
- Anti-war
- Fighting for peace
- Grey-zone (international relations)
- Human overpopulation#Warfare and conflict over dwindling resources
- Monopoly on violence
- Moral syncretism
- Nonkilling
- Nonviolence
- Non-aggression principle
- Peace protest
- Peace symbol
- Perpetual peace
- Structural violence
- Sulh
- War resister
- White flag
- White dove
- World peace