Peace has a golden reputation. Worshippers pray for it. A Norwegian committee awards a celebrated prize to individuals and organizations that it believes promote peace. The central figure of Christianity bears the honorific “the Prince of Peace.” Yet peace on Earth has proven elusive. In the three decades since the end of the Cold War, however, the world has learned a great deal about peace, and what we have learned makes it, if not simpler to establish, then at least easier to understand. It is not a mythical beast, the unicorn of international history. It has been sighted, in the …read more
Source: The American Interest
