Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.
Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.
There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.
Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
There is no greater responsibility resting upon peoples and governments everywhere than to make sure that enduring peace will this time - at long last - be established and maintained.
The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.