page_title: Peace
section_title: Other
hierarchical_section_title: Peace / Organizations and prizes / Other
caption_attribution_description: English: Full featured double rainbow in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
context_page_description: Peace is a concept of societal friendship and harmony in the absence of hostility and violence. In a social sense, peace is commonly used to mean a lack of conflict and freedom from fear of violence between individuals or groups. Throughout history leaders have used peacemaking and diplomacy to establish a certain type of behavioral restraint that has resulted in the establishment of regional peace or economic growth through various forms of agreements or peace treaties. Such behavioral restraint has often resulted in the reduction of conflicts, greater economic interactivity, and consequently substantial prosperity.
  "Psychological peace" is perhaps less well defined yet often a necessary precursor to establishing "behavioral peace." Peaceful behavior sometimes results from a "peaceful inner disposition." Some have expressed the belief that peace can be initiated with a certain quality of inner tranquility that does not depend upon the uncertainties of daily life for its existence. The acquisition of such a "peaceful internal disposition" for oneself and others can contribute to resolving of otherwise seemingly irreconcilable competing interests.
context_section_description: A peace museum is a museum that documents historical peace initiatives. Many peace museums also provide advocacy programs for nonviolent conflict resolution. This may include conflicts at the personal, regional or international level.
  Smaller institutions:
  Randolph Bourne Institute
  The McGill Middle East Program of Civil Society and Peace Building
  International Festival of Peace Poetry
caption: Rainbows: Often used as a symbol of harmony and peace.
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