how would you define peace?

Question

and do you think that fighting for peace is just wrong and hypocriticism?

Answer 1

Peace is a state of harmony, the absence of hostility. This term is applied to describe a cessation of violent international conflict; in this international context, peace is the opposite of war. Peace can also describe a relationship between any parties characterized by respect, justice, and goodwill. More generally, peace can pertain to an individual relative to her or his environment, as peaceful can describe calm, serenity, and silence. This latter understanding of peace can also pertain to an individual's sense of himself or herself, as to be "at peace" with one's self would indicate the same serenity, calm, and equilibrium within oneself.
The traditional political definition of peace and the very word itself originated among the ancient Romans who defined peace, pax, as absentia belli, the absence of war.

Today, peace is often understood as the absence of war between two or more state-organized armies. Nonetheless, the concept of peace also applies to the state of people within their respective geopolitical entities, as civil war, state-sponsored genocide, terrorism, and other violence are all threats to peace on an intranational level. Since World War II, wars among states have become less common, while violent internal conflicts have become a more central concern. Present day Sudan, for example, is the site of widespread suffering and violence, despite its not being engaged in war with another sovereign state. Peace, in this context, is understood as the absence of violence among groups, whether part of a state apparatus or not.

This conception of peace as a mere absence of overt violence, however, is still challenged by some as incomplete. Influential peace researcher Johan Galtung has described this former conception of peace as "negative peace",suggesting that underlying points of conflict must themselves be resolved in order for true peace to exist.

Peace can also mean a state of quiet or tranquility — an absence of disturbance or agitation. Many people find the natural world to be peaceful in this way.

Answer 2

Peace is non-existent since it takes more than one person to make peace. If you have noticed, even one person cannot make peace with oneself all the time, needless to say there are more people in the equation.

But if I had to define it in relative terms, it would be a contract between two or more people that could result in positive outcome for both side, as long as parameters didn't change over time. Keeping the parameters constant would be key to its success.

Answer 3

Peace with respect to X is harmony among X's ontological levels.

"Fighting for peace" sounds inconsistent because it refers to an inconsistent state of affairs with a potentially counterproductive result.

But it's just a slogan. Where's the fight? If by that word we mean making a stand and moving toward instantiating a new way of being, then okay. But that's not the opposite of what we mean by peace. With peace we mean to replace war and cruelty and conflict and fist fighting.

Making a stand without doing those, is not what we mean to replace. So there is no hypocrisy at all. It is just a poor use of language.

Answer 4

It is supreme and beyond realms of human definitions
Peace is breathing with ease
It has no scale for measurement and its not materialistic
Its the weapon of the absolved, against the guilty
Warmth of a mother and caring of a father
Song of the birds
Sound of a waterfall in a desert
Its being the horizon
Peace is conditionally unconditional
Look for peace and peace will find you..

Answer 5

Peace would be living in harmony without chaos and destruction,no war or famine or poverty. No violence,drugs or unsavory characters lurking around nor prejudice or harassment of any sorts. Fighting for peace is the biggest piece of hyprcrisy ever,it defeats the whole purpose.

Answer 6

Not a student of Darwin, I take it.

Men do not fight for peace as such, they fight for dominance.

So they can look you in the eye and say:

"Hand over your girlfriend and go remove your testicles. "

Now, as a man devoted to peace, are you willing to do this peacefully?

Or would you be inclined to fight for peace ... on your terms?

Or would that be just wrong and hypocritical?

Answer 7

Peace is love, kind, happiness, good conditions :)

I love peace :)

Answer 8

Peace is the absence of war. Defending yourself is not wrong or hypocritical.

Answer 9

peace is in our heads. we chase it and love it and get angry when it doesn't match our definitations.