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noun accord, adjustment of differences, alliance, amity, armistice, brotherhood, calm, coexistence, community of interests, conciliation, concordance, concordancy, concordia, consentaneity, consentaneousness, cooperation, end of hostilities, fraternalism, freedom from war, friendliness, good will, harmoniousness, harmony, hush, law and order, lull, neutrality, oneness, order, orderliness, otium, pacification, pact, pax, quiescence, quiet, quietness, rapport, reconciliation, repose, serenity, silence, stillness, suspension of hostilities, tranquility, treaty, truce, unanimity, unity
Associated concepts: breach of the peace, disturbing the peace, peace officer
Foreign phrases: Paci sunt maxime contraria vis et injuria.Violence and injury are especially hostile to peace.

PEACE. The tranquillity enjoyed by a political society, internally, by the good order which reigns among its members, and externally, by the good understanding it has with all other nations. Applied to the internal regulations of a nation, peace imports, in a technical sense, not merely a state of repose and security, as opposed to one of violence and warfare, but likewise a state of public order and decorum. Ham. N. P. 139; 12 Mod. 566. Vide, generally, Bac. Ab. Prerogative, D 4; Hale, Hist. P. C. 160; 3 Taunt. R. 14; 1 B. & A. 227; Peake, R. 89; 1 Esp. R. 294; Harr. Dig. Officer, V 4; 2 Benth. Ev. 319, note. Vide Good behaviour; Surety of the peace.

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The global maritime domain and the role of naval power in peacetime have changed significantly in recent decades.

Naval operations in peacetime: not just "Warfare Lite"

As with the rest of the Navy, in peacetime most flotillas would be in reserve.

Ruling the seas, for less

Besides our fuels effort, we also provide real-time audit support for peacetime operations such as the Hurricane Katrina disaster.

Notes from the Auditor General of the Air Force

In peacetime, the navy's warships are deployed in administrative groupings of the same class ship at one base or patrol area.

Taiwan reorganizes, rearms navy

Obviously, this judgment plays a major role in developing our wartime tactics and game plans, but this proper mission versus risk balance is just as crucial to our peacetime training.

Balancing risk & mission: what level of risk should we accept during training?

But the limited social freedom that John, Laura, and other military personnel enjoy with their loved ones in peacetime disappears in times of war.

Family life during wartime; "don't ask, don't tell" is keeping America's gay soldiers in the closet as they fight overseas--but what is it doing to the loved ones they've left behind?

The Psychological Operations units support national security objectives during peacetime, contingencies and war.

CIBER awarded multi-mil $ contract by U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Ops Command

While the subject of last issue's cover story, the possibility of war with Iraq, continues to be a focus of media attention and public discussion, major ongoing peacetime concerns shouldn't be allowed to fall by the wayside.

The issue at hand

In recent weeks Australians have gone through the agony of our worst peacetime disaster--the Bali bombing--in which 180 people died, half of them Australian, almost certainly at the hands of Muslim extremists.

From John Bond, Canberra, Australia. (Letters)

National Marine Fisheries Service and the Navy, BMMS asserted: "Mitigation of naval activities during peacetime appears to be the only reasonable solution to this problem.

Sound ideas for beaked whales

I am so looking forward to their peacetime use, if there ever is such a thing again in my lifetime.

Better homes and victory gardens. (Unplugged)

The success of the Central Asian ring of access argues that the Department of Defense should continue to employ and expand its subtle and inexpensive peacetime security cooperation programs on a global scale.