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Epilogue: The Puzzle of World Peace

Principles and practices of “one world, one peace” are fatally flawed because if the world history of peace teaches us anything it is that peace and peacemaking are contingent on conditions and participants that are perpetually evolving.

If the world history of peace should teach us only one thing, it is this: like putting together a puzzle the design of which cannot be known because it is always already changing, actualizing world peace lies in continually configuring and reconfiguring the world’s peaces into a dynamic whole rather than forcing all of them to fit into a static one. I undertook this book in the belief that coming closer to terms with how and why the world’s peaces came or ceased to be what they are is a first, necessary step in renewed directions towards world peace - only to discover that, of necessity, there is no last.

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Source: Adolf Antony. Peace: A World History. Polity,2009. — 298 p.. 2009

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