Eye on the world: Peace: more than an absence of discord

In “Oregon shooting: Is it time for national peacemaking?The Christian Science Monitor’s Editorial Board notes, “The desire to eliminate the physical means of violence only begins to touch on the idea of peace in its affirmative meaning, such as harmony, empathy, unity.” The editorial concludes: “Peace can be learned, by both individuals and nations, and not as the opposite of something else. It operates out of a conviction that violence is not inevitable because so many human societies have learned how to supplant it with high ideals.”

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