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To me, peace is not just the absence of war. Peace is autonomy and agency.
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This means peace involves more than stopping violence or conflict. It also requires people to have autonomy—the freedom to govern their own lives—and agency—the ability to make choices and act on them. A society may be quiet yet still lack peace if people are controlled or denied a meaningful say in what happens to them.
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