TY - JOUR PY - 1981// TI - Small Peace JO - Journal of peace research A1 - Smoker, Paul SP - 149 EP - 157 VL - 18 IS - 2 N2 - Peace may be conceived of not only as the absence of physical or structural violence, but also positively as harmony between culture and structure. In that case, the values of a society must be known in order for us to assess the degree of peace. Since 'small peace' presupposes a shared symbolic reality, most instances existing today are small -- e. g., religious communities -- and 'world peace' will have to consist of a multitude of 'small peaces', which may also contain what the outsider will define as structural violence.
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