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This article seeks to reimagine peace against the backdrop of a Foucauldian understanding of politics. Most conventional accounts are based on a sharp distinction between war and peace and alternate [...]

During the 1930s Great Britain tried to appease Germany by acceding to its demands to revise the international status quo in its favor. Had German demands been limited, appeasement might [...]

The English language teems with words and phrases pertaining to war but hardly does it offer organized arbitrary symbols for peace. Part of the reason perhaps is society's prevailing view of reality. War heroes are revered and peacemaking is seen as an act of cowardice. Americans are expected to take an active part in wars overseas. Movies and literature often depict thebrutalities of war. Only poetry can capture peace and relate it to its readers and writers. Academecians have the responsibility of reversing the pattern and promoting the idea of peace. In essence, promoting peace is tantamount to bringing hope in the lives of the students.

An attempt to identify the causes of war. It is argued that, in fact, wars never end, peace is an illusion, that communities are constantly under threat from other rival communities and that the absence of active campaigning does not mean that peace has broken out.