civil

en-adj

civil (comparative more civil or civiler, superlative most civil or civilest)

more civil (comparative)
civiler (comparative)
most civil (superlative)
civilest (superlative)

→ Japanese: シビル (shibiru)

From Middle English cyvyl, civil, borrowed from Old French civil, from Latin cīvīlis (“relating to a citizen”), from cīvis (“citizen”). Cognate with Old English hīwen (“household”), hīrǣden (“family”). More at hind; hird.

It was very civil of him to stop the argument.

They despise each other, but they are always civil in public.

(comparable) Behaving in a reasonable or polite manner; avoiding displays of hostility.

ве́жлив

behaving in a reasonable or polite manner


pax

From Middle English pax and Latin pax (“peace”). Doublet of peace. See peace. As school slang, originally used at Winchester College, Hampshire in the United Kingdom.


rest

en-noun

rest (countable and uncountable, plural rests)

From Middle English rest, reste, from Old English ræst, from Proto-West Germanic *rastu, from Proto-Germanic *rastō, from Proto-Indo-European *ros-, *res-, *erH- (“rest”). Cognate with West Frisian rêst (“rest”), Dutch rust (“rest”), German Rast (“rest”), Swedish rast (“rest”), Norwegian rest (“rest”), Icelandic röst (“rest”), Old Irish árus (“dwelling”), German Ruhe (“calm”), Albanian resht (“to stop, pause”), Welsh araf (“quiet, calm, gentle”), Lithuanian rovà (“calm”), Ancient Greek ἐρωή (erōḗ, “rest, respite”), Avestan 𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬨𐬈 (aⁱrime, “calm, peaceful”), Sanskrit रमते (rámate, “he stays still, calms down”), Gothic 𐍂𐌹𐌼𐌹𐍃 (rimis, “tranquility”). Related to roo.

rest

stick used to support the cue in snooker

It was nice to have a rest from the phone ringing when I unplugged it for a while.

And the land had rest fourscore years.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 3:30:

(uncountable) Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.

հանգիստ

peace, freedom from trouble, tranquility


pacify

en-verb

pacify (third-person singular simple present pacifies, present participle pacifying, simple past and past participle pacified)

pacifies (present singular third-person)
pacifying (participle present)
pacified (participle past)
pacified (past)

From Middle French pacifier, from Latin pāx (“peace”) + faciō (“I do, make”). Cognate with pay and peacify.

(transitive) To bring peace to (a place or situation), by ending war, fighting, violence, anger or agitation.


pacific

en-adj

pacific (comparative more pacific, superlative most pacific)

more pacific (comparative)
most pacific (superlative)

The long-continued hostilities which had for centuries divided the south and the north divisions of the Island of Britain, had been happily terminated by the succession of the pacific James I, to the English crown.

1822 May 29, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in The Fortunes of Nigel. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 3:

Preferring peace by nature; avoiding violence.

խաղաղասեր

preferring peace in nature; avoiding violence — see also peaceful


irenic

irenic (comparative more irenic, superlative most irenic)

more irenic (comparative)
most irenic (superlative)

From Ancient Greek εἰρηνικός (eirēnikós, “characterized by peace, peaceful”) + English -ic (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’). Εἰρηνικός (Eirēnikós) is derived from εἰρήνη (eirḗnē, “peace”) (possibly from εἴρω (eírō, “to fasten together”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“(verb) to bind, tie together; (noun) thread”)), or εἴρω (eírō, “to say, speak”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *werh₁- (“to say, speak”))) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’).

der

Plato and the Athenians must have felt almost as uncomfortable with Xenophon's irenic intervention as one feels at times in an argument when—just as the point in dispute, precisely by being brought to a head, begins to be interesting—a helpful third party kindly takes it upon himself to reconcile the disputants, to take the whole matter back to a triviality

1989 [1830 October 30], Søren Kierkegaard, translated by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong, On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:

The idea that the Jews of the region are not genetically distinct from other peoples of the area should be an irenic insight.

2001 November 30, Hywel Williams, “God the state-builder”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-05-06:

The philosophes contrasted their own irenic calls for tolerance with the church's historical record as the perennial source of cruelty and fanaticism.

2002, Colin Jones, “An Enlightening Age”, in The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon 1715–99, New York, N.Y., Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 199:

The current comity between the United States and China, which have little in common except a river of manufactured goods in one direction and dollars in the other, is a recent reminder of the irenic effects of trade.

2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, published 2012, →ISBN, page 343:

(chiefly theology) Promoting or fitted to promote peace or peacemaking, especially over disputes; conciliatory, non-confrontational, peaceful.

миротворен

promoting or fitted to promote peace or peacemaking, especially over disputes — see also conciliatory


peaceful

en-adj

peaceful (comparative more peaceful or peacefuller or peacefuler, superlative most peaceful or peacefullest or peacefulest)

more peaceful (comparative)
peacefuller (comparative)
peacefuler (comparative)
most peaceful (superlative)
peacefullest (superlative)
peacefulest (superlative)

From Middle English peesful, pesful, paisful, pesefull, equivalent to peace + -ful.

peaceful protest

Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[…]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.

2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

Not at war; not disturbed by strife or turmoil.

vreedsaam

not at war or disturbed by strife or turmoil


olive branch

/ˈɒlɪv bɹɑːntʃ/

Georgics
Jacob Tonson
Kruft
Mayen-Koblenz

The olive branch has been regarded as a symbol of peace since Ancient Greek times. For example, in Virgil’s Aeneid (written between 29 and 19 B.C.E.), Aeneas holds an olive branch and declares that it bears the following message: “The Trojans and their Chief / Bring holy peace; and beg the King’s relief.” The symbolism was strengthened by the reference in Genesis 8:11 of the Bible to Noah sending out a dove from the Ark which returns bearing an olive leaf in its beak, thus showing that the Great Flood is receding.

I appeal to you to enable our people to establish national independent sovereignty over its own land. / Today I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom-fighter's gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. I repeat: do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. / War flares up in Palestine, and yet it is in Palestine that peace will be born.

1974 November 13, Yasser Arafat, “Agenda Item 108: Question of Palestine”, in United Nations General Assembly Twenty-ninth Session Official Records: 2282nd Plenary Meeting, A/PV.2282 and Corr.1, archived from the original on 2017-06-19, paragraphs 81–83:

A branch of an olive tree offered as an emblem of peace.

غُصْن الزَيْتُون

branch of an olive tree as an emblem of peace


V sign

A sign of victory or peace made by raising the index and middle fingers with the palm outwards.


pacifist

From French pacifiste, equivalent to pacific + -ist.

pacifist

one who loves, supports, or favours peace

One who loves, supports, or favours peace.

One who prefers to avoid violence in daily life.

No matter what pacifist "flubdubs and flapdoodle mollycoddles" might say, the President [Teddy Roosevelt] knew that if there were a general war then America could well be drawn into it.

2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage:

պացիֆիստ

one who opposes violence and is anti-war

One who both abstains from inflicting violence on others and opposes others doing so.

Mahatma Gandhi was one of the world's most famous pacifists.


peace process

Negotiations towards the peaceful settlement of a long-running conflict.


UNPROFOR

A UN peacekeeping force, UNPROFOR, now protects and feeds the besieged population.

2022, Priscilla Morris, Black Butterflies, Duckworth, page 113:

(historical) Acronym of United Nations Protection Force: a multinational peacekeeping force in the former Yugoslavia in 1992 to 1995; superseded by IFOR.


peacekeeper

Roughly 1200 years ago, the turians were invited to join the Citadel Council to fulfill the role of galactic peacekeepers. The turians have the largest fleet in Citadel space, and they make up the single largest portion of the Council's military forces.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Turians Codex entry:


peacekeeping

en-noun

peacekeeping (usually uncountable, plural peacekeepings)

From peace + keeping, after keep the peace.

Peacekeeping is one of the things that the United Nations, for all its foibles, does well.

2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 378:

The act of preserving peace, specifically between hostile groups or states, especially by a sanctioned military force.


modus vivendi

Learned borrowing from Latin modus vīvendī, from modus (“way, manner”) + genitive gerund form of vīvere (“to live”).

lbor

One would almost have supposed Henchard to have had policy to see that no better modus vivendi could be arrived at with Farfrae than by encouraging him to become his son-in-law.

1886 May, Thomas Hardy, chapter XVII, in The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:

The alien beings desire to know mankind more fully, and to have a few of mankind’s philosophic and scientific leaders know more about them. With such an exchange of knowledge all perils will pass, and a satisfactory modus vivendi be established.

1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 5, in The Whisperer in Darkness:

The Persians were reviewing the legal systems of the subject peoples to make sure that they were compatible with imperial security, and Ezra had probably worked out a satisfactory modus vivendi between Mosaic and Persian jurisprudence.

2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage, published 2010, page 53:

For the moment it is impossible to identify a future modus vivendi with Gaza. No deals with Hamas will be trusted but nor is there a certain route to eliminate Hamas.

2023 October 14, Lawrence Freedman, “No end in sight”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 2:

peaceful coexistence
peaceful coexistence

A way of living, especially a working arrangement to allow for peaceful coexistence between two parties in spite of differences or unresolved disputes.


chiliastic

en-adj

chiliastic (comparative more chiliastic, superlative most chiliastic)

more chiliastic (comparative)
most chiliastic (superlative)

The social anthropologist can recognise in the millenarian sentiments of the Interregnum a parallel phenomenon to the chiliastic movements which still occur in the underdeveloped countries of today.

1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 139:

The evanescent quality of Debord's later writing, his chiliastic serenity, is patent here: a voice speaking from a world one might want to make and then to live in, but also the voice of the mad professor in Eric Ambler's spy thriller Cause for Alarm.

1989, Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009:

Yet, as Gary Weiss shows in his new book, Ayn Rand Nation, she has become to the new right what Karl Marx once was to the left: a demigod at the head of a chiliastic cult.

2012 March 5, George Monbiot, “How Ayn Rand became the new right's version of Marx”, in The Guardian:

In his pioneering study The Pursuit of the Millennium (1957), Norman Cohn showed how Nazism was also a chiliastic movement.

2018, John Gray, “The problem of hyper-liberalism”, in TLS:

Pertaining to the religious doctrine of a thousand-year period of peace and prosperity.


peaceable

peaceable (comparative more peaceable, superlative most peaceable)

more peaceable (comparative)
most peaceable (superlative)

From Anglo-Norman pesible, peisible, Middle French paisible, from pais (“peace”) + -ible; later remodelled after peace + -able.

But in the Muslim world we are dealing with regimes who have banished, imprisoned, silenced or neutralised all opposition, even where this is entirely peaceable.

1999 December 29, Faisal Bodi, The Guardian:

But if you talk to people here privately, they suggest there are three possible scenarios. The first (intended to sound incredible) is that Israel’s biggest neighbour will be transformed into a peaceable, pluralist democracy.

2011 February 8, ‘Feeling understandably twitchy’, The Economist:

Favouring peace rather than conflict; not aggressive, tending to avoid violence (of people, actions etc.).


calumet

From a Norman variant of Old French chalumeau (imported to Canada with Norman colonists), from Latin calamellus, diminutive of calamus (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos).

THE CALUMET OF PEACE. He offered a cigarette to the professor and took one himself.

When the chief has directed them to approach, they advance; those who have the calumets, chant and dance with much agility, now turning around each other, and now presenting themselves in front, but always with violent movements and extraordinary contortions.

2010, William Ingraham Kip, The Early Jesuit Missions in North America, page 283:

A clay tobacco pipe used by Native Americans, especially as a symbol of truce or peace.


peace pipe

to smoke the peace pipe

A tobacco pipe smoked ceremonially in certain Native American cultures that symbolizes peace among those who smoke it, and among whom it is passed around from person to person.


peacefully

en-adv

peacefully (comparative more peacefully, superlative most peacefully)

more peacefully (comparative)
most peacefully (superlative)

From Middle English peesfully, peasfullie, paisfulike, paisfullic, equivalent to peaceful + -ly.

She and her husband managed to fix up a false floor in one of their rooms in which they fed the roosters; so whenever a picket came in sight her call would bring the whole family out of the woods and clearing into the refuge, where they remained peacefully amongst corn-cobs till the danger had passed.

1881, Thomas Hughes, Rugby, Tennessee, Macmillan and Co., page 58:


irenicon

A proposition, scheme, or treatise designed to promote peace, especially in the church.


irenical

en-adj

irenical (comparative more irenical, superlative most irenical)

more irenical (comparative)
most irenical (superlative)

From irenic + -al (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’).

suffix

[Andrew Marvell's] irenical moral is the interdependence, if insurmountable quarrelsomeness, of both elements in man's divided nature, rather as in a stormy marriage.

2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin Books, published 2004, page 40:

Synonym of irenic (“promoting or fitted to promote peace, especially over disputes; conciliatory, non-confrontational, peaceful”)


peacebuilding

The creation of peace or the conditions for peace.


henotic

en-adj

henotic (comparative more henotic, superlative most henotic)

more henotic (comparative)
most henotic (superlative)

From Ancient Greek ἑνωτικός (henōtikós, “serving to unite”), from εἷς (heîs, “one”).

uder

Of or pertaining to the production of peace and harmony; unifying


civil society

en-noun

civil society (countable and uncountable, plural civil societies)

From the archaic sense of civil, “peaceful and well-ordered”. Later senses of civil society reflect 19th-century Hegelian influence, as well as the earlier argument that tyrannical governments exist in the state of nature in relation to their subjects.

The only Way whereby any one divests himself of his natural Liberty, and puts on the Bonds of civil Society, is by agreeing with other Men to join and unite into a Community, for their comfortable, safe, and peaceable living one amongst another, in a secure Enjoyment of their Properties, and a greater Security against any that are not of it.

1689, John Locke, Two Treatises of Government; republished as The Works of John Locke Esq., volume 2, 1727, page 185:

Rousseau, however, thought that civil society as such […] is characterized by a fundamental self-contradiction and that it is precisely the state of nature which is free from self-contradiction; man in the state of nature is happy because he is radically independent, whereas man in civil society is unhappy because he is radically dependent.

1953, Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History, page 282:

Man’s decision to leave the state of nature is a natural decision. […] Civil society is, in effect, nature rendered reasonable.

1989, Gary B. Herbert, Thomas Hobbes: The Unity of Scientific and Moral Wisdom, →ISBN, page 12:

(philosophy) Organized, internally peaceful human society; civilization.

status cīvīlis

organized and peaceful society — see also civilization


Pax Britannica

Learned borrowing from New Latin Pax Britannica, from pāx (“peace”) + Britannica (“British”) after the model of the imperial Roman Pāx Rōmāna.

lbor

(history) The period of British hegemony over the seas and most oversea colonies between the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar and the onset of World War I in 1914.


Pax Americana

From Latin pāx (“peace”) + Americāna (“American”) after the model of the imperial Roman Pāx Rōmāna and earlier British Pāx Britannica.

Earlier this month Boston's WBUR radio station titled a special on US imperial power with the Latin tag Pax Americana. Tom Wolfe has written that the America of today is “now the mightiest power on earth, as omnipotent as… Rome under Julius Caesar”.

2002 September 18, Jonathan Freedland, “Rome, AD… Rome, DC?”, in The Guardian:

A war like this — a voluntary war of aggression — would be a sign that Putin believed that Pax Americana was over and that the U.S., the European Union and their allies had become too weak to exact painful consequences.

2022 February 21, David Leonhardt, “Why Ukraine Is Different”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The period of relative peace in the Western world since the end of World War II in 1945, coinciding with the military and economic dominance of the United States.


Pax Romana

Learned borrowing from Latin Pāx Rōmāna, from pāx (“peace”) + Rōmāna (“Roman”), apparently coined by Seneca the Younger in 55 CE and popularized in English by Edward Gibbon in his c. 1776 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

(historical) The long period of relative peace and minimal expansion by military force experienced by the Roman Empire between 27 BCE and 180 CE.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire


reconcilement

en-noun

reconcilement (countable and uncountable, plural reconcilements)

Thus reconcilement was betweene them knitt, Through goodly temperaunce and affection chaste [...].

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

The fact of being restored to cordial relations with each other; settling differences, making peace; reconciliation.


extrabellum

The 1990s in America were the largest extrabellum economic expansion in the 20th century.


peacemongering

(derogatory) Behaviour of a peacemonger; irrational pacifism.


pacificate

en-verb

pacificate (third-person singular simple present pacificates, present participle pacificating, simple past and past participle pacificated)

pacificates (present singular third-person)
pacificating (participle present)
pacificated (participle past)
pacificated (past)

(transitive, archaic) To pacify; to make peaceful.


irenology

From Ancient Greek εἰρήνη (eirḗnē, “peace”) + -logy.

Up to now, the irenological perspective has only been dealt with in passing. Just as for polemology, irenology must be systematically pursued as a necessary complement to what has so far been the exclusively polemological orientation of research. Peace itself, and different forms of peaceful coexistence, must be subjected to a greater degree of systematic documentation and analysis.

2002, C. Scherrer, Structural Prevention of Ethnic Violence, →ISBN, page 76:

As one of China's most important non-official think tanks on diplomacy and international relations, the Charhar Institute has been focusing on public diplomacy and irenology since its establishment in October 2009.

2016, Chenyang Li, Myanmar: Reintegrating into the International Community:


pacificator

Instead of his services being appreciated, he was accused as a usurper and intruder; he was made responsible for the injuries and prejudices of which his accuser loudly complained; and the founder and pacificator of the Darien was to be prosecuted for the criminal charges brought against him.

1905, Rossiter Johnson, The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 8:


blue beret

From the colour of the berets worn by UN peacekeepers.

The blue berets were the United Nations soldiers. When the fighting had at last been quelled, the government of Cyprus had asked the United Nations to send troops to keep the peace.

(military) A United Nations peacekeeper.


make love, not war

desc

→ French: faites l’amour, pas la guerre (calque)

Originally coined by those who opposed the United States's involvement in the Vietnam War.

I want you to make love, not war / I know you've heard it before

1973, John Lennon (lyrics and music), “Mind Games”, in Mind Games:

A hippie anti-war slogan encouraging love and peace.


placify

en-verb

placify (third-person singular simple present placifies, present participle placifying, simple past and past participle placified)

placifies (present singular third-person)
placifying (participle present)
placified (participle past)
placified (past)

(rare) To create a peaceful and calm environment; to make placid.


keep the peace

keep the peace (third-person singular simple present keeps the peace, present participle keeping the peace, simple past and past participle kept the peace)

keeps the peace (present singular third-person)
keeping the peace (participle present)
kept the peace (participle past)
kept the peace (past)

The police were called in to keep the peace during the political demonstration.

(idiomatic) To maintain order and peace in a volatile situation.


makepeace

To be a make-peace shall become my age / Throw down, my son, the Duke of Norfolk's gage.

c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, act 1, scene 1:

(rare) A peacemaker; one who reconciles persons at variance with one another; a composer of strife; an adjuster of differences.


saught

saught (third-person singular simple present saughts, present participle saughting, simple past and past participle saughted)

saughts (present singular third-person)
saughting (participle present)
saughted (participle past)
saughted (past)

From Middle English saughte, seihte, from Old English saht, seaht, seht (“settlement, arrangement, agreement, terms arranged between two parties by an umpire, a peace between two powers, friendship, peace”), from Proto-Germanic *sahtiz (“reproach, agreement, reconciliation”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- (“to seek, trace”). Cognate with Old Norse sátt, sætt (“covenant, agreement, settlement, reconciliation”).

der

(transitive, intransitive, UK dialectal) To reconcile; become reconciled.


repacify

en-verb

repacify (third-person singular simple present repacifies, present participle repacifying, simple past and past participle repacified)

repacifies (present singular third-person)
repacifying (participle present)
repacified (participle past)
repacified (past)

From re- + pacify, q.v. Cognate with repay.

(transitive) To pacify again, to make peaceful a second time.


pacificatory

en-adj

pacificatory (comparative more pacificatory, superlative most pacificatory)

more pacificatory (comparative)
most pacificatory (superlative)

This pacificatory move – plus the political credit which he personally enjoyed – helped to stabilize the finances.

2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 392:


IFOR

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina

Implementation Force (IFOR), a NATO-led multinational peacekeeping force in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the mid-1990s


Cobdenism

From Cobden + -ism, after Richard Cobden.

The progress of tonight's debate makes one profoundly conscious of the constructive shortcomings of the Cobdenism of today.

1906, FE Smith, maiden speech to House of Commons, 12 Mar 1906

(politics, now historical) A policy of free trade and international peace and cooperation.


Oslo process

(politics) A peace process between Israel and Palestine, begun with the Oslo Accords.


peacebuilder

A person who creates or restores a state of peace.


peacebreaking

Disturbing or destroying a state of peace.


locarnize

en-verb

locarnize (third-person singular simple present locarnizes, present participle locarnizing, simple past and past participle locarnized)

locarnizes (present singular third-person)
locarnizing (participle present)
locarnized (participle past)
locarnized (past)

Attested since at least the 1925, from Locarno + -ize. Named after the site of a 1925 treaty in the Swiss town.

And when these promises have been unmistakably fulfilled, even Poincare will not hesitate to reduce the troops of occupation and to consent to complete evacuation at an early date, as well as to Locarnizing all the French policies.

1927 June 26, “Poincare finds ally in Harden in speech row”, in The Billings Gazette, page 2:

While the French emissary fastidiously avoided evoking the 1925 negotiations, given the Marshal's vehemently negative sentiments on the subject, Pilsudski promptly saw through the French move to 'locarnize' the treaty.

2002, Nicole Jordan, The Popular Front and Central Europe: The Dilemmas of French Impotence 1918–1940, page 16:

“While future talks were not ruled out Piłsudski would not have the military pact ‘locarnized’ (his word), nor would he accept any French move to reduce their obligations to Poland in case of a Polish–Soviet conflict.”

2005, Zara S. Steiner, The Lights That Failed: European International History 1919–1933, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 518:

“For the record, Piłsudski states most categorically that this was a French initiative, and manifested a repugnance to have the military convention ‘locarnized’ (Franchet d’Esperey recorded this expression).”

2014, Piotr Stefan Wandycz, The Twilight of French Eastern Alliances, 1926–1936: French–Czechoslovak–Polish Relations from Locarno to the Remilitarization of the Rhineland, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 100:

(rare) To corrupt a peace agreement or treaty to favor one side.


beat one's swords into ploughshares

beat<,,beat,beaten> one's swords into ploughshares

beat one's swords into ploughshares (third-person singular simple present beats one's swords into ploughshares, present participle beating one's swords into ploughshares, simple past beat one's swords into ploughshares, past participle beaten one's swords into ploughshares or beat one's swords into ploughshares)

beats one's swords into ploughshares (present singular third-person)
beating one's swords into ploughshares (participle present)
beat one's swords into ploughshares (past)
beaten one's swords into ploughshares (participle past)
beat one's swords into ploughshares (participle past)

en-au-beat one's swords into ploughshares.ogg

There are two choices before us: We can beat our plowshares into swords and prepare for war, or we can beat our swords into plowshares and prepare for peace.

1947, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services, Hearings ... on Sundry Legislation Affecting the Naval and Military Establishments, page 171:

What do the 90s mean for those who wish to beat swords into plowshares? First, they call for gratitude to the courageous women and men who nonviolently toppled dictators and tumbled walls.

2010, Anne Montgomery, “Resistance to U.S. Massacre in Iraq”, in Arthur J. Laffin, Anne Montgomery, editors, Swords into Plowshares:

Since 1987, Mugabe has been the President of the country. Here is a man, who, at independence, made us believe that we had beaten our swords into ploughshares and our spears into pruning hooks only to torment Joshua Nkomo and his Zapu, as well as innocent civilians.

August 24, 2017, With careful tendering, Azim will fructify, in NewsDay (Zimbabwe)

(idiomatic) To refrain from destructive military or paramilitary acts (war, terrorism, etc.) and put energy and resources to peaceful ends that would otherwise go to violence.


pacificating

en-adj

pacificating (comparative more pacificating, superlative most pacificating)

more pacificating (comparative)
most pacificating (superlative)

(archaic) Which makes peace; which pacificates.


peace establishment

en-noun

peace establishment (plural peace establishments)

The reduced military force maintained in peacetime. It may produce a peace dividend.


pacificity

One of the quintessential values of the indigenous Ewe society is pacificity.

1976, Conflict and harmony in education in tropical Africa, page 85:

In addition, in FPHWP, I proposed “the multifaceted theory of war and peace” to understand war and peace, in a small sense—or aggression and pacificity, in a broad sense.

2012 -, Peter Baofu, The Future of Post-Human Waste, page 44:

In the Alto Xingu, there is strong moral emphasis on respect for others, on self-control, and on pacificity.

2013, Penelope Harvey, Peter Gow -, Sex and Violence: Issues in Representation and Experience, page 90:

Hume's pacificity and neutrality contrast with Gibbon's combative attitude and his interest in subjective, personalized experience.

2014, Charlotte Roberts, Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History, page 170:

The quality of being pacific; peacefulness.


olive-branch

en-verb

olive-branch (third-person singular simple present olive-branches, present participle olive-branching, simple past and past participle olive-branched)

olive-branches (present singular third-person)
olive-branching (participle present)
olive-branched (participle past)
olive-branched (past)

As she looked at this bunch of too-full-blown roses, and realized the message that it was intended delicately to convey, the dove-like and olive-branching sentiments departed from her breast—and in their place came sentiments compounded of daggers and bow-strings and very poisonous bowls!

1914, Thomas Allibone Janvier, At the Casa Napoleon, page 140:

That was intricate reporting plus reasoning plus olive-branching and remonstrating.

1989, Albert Norman, The Falkland Islands, Their Kinship Isles, the Antarctic Hemisphere, & the Freedom of the 2 Great Oceans, page 218:

The frantic olive-branching of America while consistently berating black men has worn me down.

2007, William Jelani Cobb, The Devil and Dave Chappelle: And Other Essays, page 15:

“Let me help you out,” I olive-branched him, “I do know what you pulled me for; I crossed the double yellow line.

2016, Jeff Scot Philips, Big Fat Food Fraud: Confessions of a Health-Food Hustler:

To extend an olive branch; to make a peace offering; to attempt to restore peaceful relations.


UNTAC

Initialism from the first five letters of "United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia".

The United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia, a United Nations peacekeeping operation in Cambodia from 1992 until 1993 formed following the 1991 Paris Peace Accords.


UNTAET

Initialism from the first five letters of "United Nations Transitional Authority in East Timor".

The United Nations Transitional Authority in East Timor, a United Nations peacekeeping operation in East Timor from 1999 until 2002 formed following the East Timor Special Autonomy Referendum.


pacificatingly

en-adv

pacificatingly (comparative more pacificatingly, superlative most pacificatingly)

more pacificatingly (comparative)
most pacificatingly (superlative)

In a pacificating manner; in a peacemaking way.


settle accounts with

en-verb

settle accounts with (third-person singular simple present settles accounts with, present participle settling accounts with, simple past and past participle settled accounts with)

settles accounts with (present singular third-person)
settling accounts with (participle present)
settled accounts with (participle past)
settled accounts with (past)

To bring (an argument, etc.) to a peaceful but resigned conclusion.


dove of peace

The second half of the programme was to belong to Surkov. He was given an enthusiastic reception as he strode onstage, his jeans skintight, his T-shirt embossed with a dove of peace, his yellow hair flapping.

1990, D. M. Thomas, Lying Together, New York, NY: Viking Penguin, →ISBN, page 157:

Most psychedelic response to a painkiller / “Rainbows, white puffy clouds, doves of peace flying across the sky. Mozart on the piano, contrary motion scales, arpeggios up and down the keyboard, Beethoven—crashing thunder—it was all so beautiful. It was all so perfect.” / Bill Walton, 2002

2005, Kerry Banks, The Unofficial Guide to Basketball’s Nastiest and Most Unusual Records, Vancouver, B.C.: Greystone Books, →ISBN, page 151:

In November 1950, Paix et liberté released a poster entitled “La colombe qui fait boum” (“The dove that goes boom!”). The motif, a tank disguised as a dove of peace, was very close to the illustration for a book that Taubert had published[…].

2014, Bernard Ludwig, “Paix et liberté: A Transnational Anti-Communist Network”, in Luc van Dongen, Stéphanie Roulin, Giles Scott-Smith, editors, Transnational Anti-Communism and the Cold War: Agents, Activities, and Networks (Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History), Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 88:

The dove as a symbol of peace and pacifism, typically depicted carrying an olive branch.


Pax Sinica

From Latin pāx (“peace”) + Sīnica (“Chinese”) after the model of the imperial Roman Pax Romana, former British Pax Britannica, and present Pax Americana.

(historical) All or any of various periods of general peace in East Asia occasioned by a hegemonic dynasty in China, particularly

The general peace under the Han dynasty.

The general peace under the Tang dynasty.

Synonym of Pax Mongolica, the general peace under the Yuan dynasty.

Pax Mongolica

The general peace under the Ming dynasty.

The general peace under the Qing dynasty.

Pax Sinica via the Third World—major diplomatic efforts at shoring up its position in the Third World and the unabashed assumption of the Third World leadership that it had previously declined as evidence of its anti-hegemonic pledge

1993, Samuel S. Kim, “Mainland China and a New World Order”, in Bih-jaw Lin, James T. Myers, editors, Forces for Change in Contemporary China, University of South Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 38:

A hypothetical period of future international peace based on submission to prospective Chinese dominance over international affairs.


white peace

During the [First World] war, […] he [Caillaux] thought and worked alone for a "white peace".

1925 October 7, “[Editorial Paragraphs]”, in The Nation, volume cxxi, number 3144, New York, NY, page 369:

A peace agreement after a war, in which the parties do not impose onerous terms on one other.


peacelike

en-adj

peacelike (comparative more peacelike, superlative most peacelike)

more peacelike (comparative)
most peacelike (superlative)

It makes the positing of two “traditions,” one presumably more peacelike, the other warlike, unnecessary.

1981, Marten Woudstra, The Book of Joshua:


foedus pacificum

From Latin foedus (“alliance”), pācificum (“peaceful”), in reference to the work of Immanuel Kant.

Moreover, the imbalance of Article 2 para. 4 and the right to self-defence is paralleled to a “significant oscillation” in Kant’s “Perpetual Peace” between the positive idea of a world-republic and the negative substitute of a foedus pacificum.

2003, Klaus Dicke, “Peace Through International Law and the Case of Iraq”, in Gerhard Beestermöller, editor, Iraq: Threat and Response, →ISBN, page 21:

But still, he argues, if Kant’s hypothesis of a foedus pacificum is correct, as Rawls believes it is, armed conflict between democratic peoples will tend to disappear as they approach the ideal of constitutional regimes.

2006, Alyssa R. Bernstein, “A Human Right to Democracy? Legitimacy and Intervention”, in Raw Martin, David A. Reidy, editors, Rawls’s Law of Peoples: A Realistic Utopia?, page 290:

The other face of the foedus pacificum, in other words, is a democratic war theory, an account of how and why republics will fight wars and a recognition that such wars may be very fierce and very frequent until such time as the foedus pacificum covers the earth.

2013, Nicholas Rengger, Just War and International Order: The Uncivil Condition in World Politics, →ISBN, page 58:

(politics) A theoretical global league of republics that would produce world peace.


long peace

Described by American military historian John Lewis Gaddis in The Long Peace (1987).

But among his critics are those who say that warfare between modern nation states, which are only a few hundred years old, has nothing in common with conflict before that time, and therefore it’s too soon to say if the supposed “long peace” we’ve been enjoying since the end of the second world war is a blip or a sustained trend.

2021 November 7, Laura Spinney, “Can history teach us anything about the future of war – and peace?”, in The Guardian:


victory sign

I wanted to feel superior to the Kpop-obsessed koreaboos at camp who held up double Victory signs in all their pictures.

2018 December 13, Julia Hedges, “Hopefully You've Learned Korean By Now”, in The New Journal:


peace dollar

A United States dollar coin with emblems representing peace, minted for circulation from 1921 to 1928 and 1934 to 1935, and beginning again for collectors in 2021.


peace work

Well, Pam, of course I shall keep you on—but you must stick to peace work!

The supreme difficulty in connection with developing the peace work of The Hague arises from the lack of any executive power, of any police power to enforce the decrees of the court.

1910, Charles Morris, The Marvelous Career of Theodore Roosevelt, page 372:

You can remove the name of Paul Friedman, who is no longer involved in peace work, and who has been getting mail at our old address.

1971, United States, Congress, House Committee on Internal Security, National Peace Action Coalition (NPAC) and Peoples Coalition for Peace & Justice (PCPJ); Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First Session, Part 2, page 1985:

The art or process of negotiating peace.