English

Noun

peacelessness ‎(uncountable)

1. Discord; simmering conflict; a state often preluding war.
   • 1974: International peace research newsletter, volume 12:2, pages 16[1] & 17^[2]
   • 1989: Keizai Kōhō Sentā, Speaking of Japan, pages 6[3] & 7^[4] (Keizai Kōhō Center)

References

1. ↑ The conditions of peacelessness lead to aggression, internalised and open; aggression to violence, violence to bloodshed, to the destruction of life, civilization and values; and all these to mini wars.
2. ↑ Wars, as viewed by those who suffer from peacelessness thus, do not always disturb peace but quite often are mere symptoms of acute peacelessness and sometimes a relief.
3. ↑ We now understand that peacelessness comes not only out of the barrel of a gun.
4. ↑ […] increasing linkages between city economies and the global economy sometimes produce economic and social changes that have induced conflict and poverty, thereby producing peacelessness.