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peacelessness

peacelessness

English

Noun

peacelessness (uncountable)

  1. Discord; simmering conflict; a state often preluding war.
    • 1974: International peace research newsletter, volume 12:2, pages 16[1] & 17[2]
    • 1989: Keizai Kōhō Sentā, Speaking of Japan, pages 6[3] & 7[4] (Keizai Kōhō Center)

References

  1. The conditions of peacelessness lead to aggression, internalised and open; aggression to violence, violence to bloodshed, to the destruction of life, civilization and values; and all these to mini wars.
  2. Wars, as viewed by those who suffer from peacelessness thus, do not always disturb peace but quite often are mere symptoms of acute peacelessness and sometimes a relief.
  3. We now understand that peacelessness comes not only out of the barrel of a gun.
  4. […] increasing linkages between city economies and the global economy sometimes produce economic and social changes that have induced conflict and poverty, thereby producing peacelessness.