Peace cannot be equated with the sleep of the just nor with the rest of stones.
Its paradox is that it is the most controversial thing in the world, it which protects itself militarily, which preserves itself as an object of struggle.
If peace, writes Frédéric Gros in
Why War?
, is necessarily "armed", it is because we are always situated on its edge.
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This is perhaps one of the specificities of our nascent 21st century: the boundary between the notions of peace is blurring at the highest point.
France arms Ukraine, but it is not officially co-belligerent;
the invasion of Ukraine was designated by Putin as a “special operation”;
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems both at a standstill and at its climax;
international Islamist terrorism has mobilized the most barbaric war forces for twenty years, but its soldiers do not quite constitute armies in the strict sense of the term... Since the end of the 1990s, have we been living through a time of...
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