They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war -- as though the absence of war was the same as peace.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

Peace must be more than the absence of war,

The absence of war is not peace.

Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.