ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses primarily on peace as evolving visions and goals for society and the world that, if achieved, would help to create more peaceful societies within countries and globally and help to build cultures of peace across the world. The term peacekeeping deals with efforts to stop violence between two warring factions. Peacemaking deals with helping parties in conflict negotiate with each other in an effort to reach an agreement to end the conflict between them. Eliminating war is seen as a precondition for all other aspects of peace to become possible. When at war, all other aspects of peace tend to be neglected to focus attention on the war effort, which also co-opts the energy and resources of society from other peace efforts. Gender/feminist peace extends the goal of eliminating both physical and structural violence from just macro system levels to also micro levels. Gender/feminist peace is not just for women, but for all peoples.
