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“Peace for me is not the absence of war. Peace is the presence of conditions that give dignity to all of us – conditions like housing, everything – peace is the presence of those conditions that give dignity to all.
— Leymah Gbowee
Peace activist and Nobel laureate
Defining peace. Nobel Peace Prize 2011
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