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Author: Joe Haldeman Book Format: Library Binding Original Title: Forever Peace Number Of Pages: 351 pages First Published in: October 1997 Latest Edition: October 1st 1998 Series: The Forever War #2 Language: English Awards: Hugo Award for Best Novel (1998), Nebula Award for Best Novel (1998), Locus Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel (1998), John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1998) Generes: Science Fiction, Fiction, Hugo Awards, War, Science Fiction Fantasy, War, Military Fiction, Science Fiction, Military Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Audiobook, Space, Space Opera, Formats: audible mp3, ePUB(Android), kindle, and audiobook. Other Books From The Forever War Series. The book can be easily translated to readable Russian, English, Hindi, Spanish, Chinese, Bengali, Malaysian, French, Portuguese, Indonesian, German, Arabic, Japanese and many others. 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He and his platoon are linked by a neurological modification known as "jacking" which enables them to share each others' sensations, experiences and memories. He is also the part-time narrator of the book, which drops into third person now and then, giving the impression that his memories have been assembled by a later editor to make a coherent whole. Haldeman used a slightly similar presentation in his earlier The Long Habit of Living and I first came across this technique used to devastating effect in the books based on the TV series Yes, Minister! and Yes, Prime Minister! In this case, of course, it helps the author get around the problem of a first-person narrator who has suicidal impulses; by dropping into the third person now and again we readers are kept guessing as to whether or not the narrator makes it to the end of the book (cf. Podkayne of Mars , .) When Haldeman writes in the foreword to Forever Peace that it examines some of the problems of his earlier novel, The Forever War , "from an aspect that didn't exist twenty years ago", one of the problems in question must surely be the evolution of humanity towards the day "when violence towards another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh", to use the words of Martin Luther King quoted in the first pages of the book. The aspect that (I guess) didn't exist in 1974 is the concept of nanotechnology and by extension the whole set of ideas about the human/computer interface associated with the cyberpunk movement, which came to the fore in sf only in the 1990s. It transpires that those who have been "jacked" with other people for more than two weeks become "humanised", incapable of deadly violence against other human beings. Julian and Amelia (who for various reasons are both excluded from being affected in this way themselves) decide that this is a Good Thing and conspire with their friends to get the entire command structure of the US military modified in this way. There is a second conspiracy, one which they are working against. It turns out that the vastly ambitious particle physics experiment Amelia has been working on has the potential to end the universe (or at least the solar system) by replicating the conditions of the Big Bang. A millennialist conspiracy within the higher reaches of the US government decides that the end of the world would be a Good Thing and resolves to thwart Amelia's efforts to prevent the experiment from being carried out. Various agents are sent to stop them, including a memorably sexy female assassin. But the good guys triumph just in time. Some find the idea of such conspiracies at high level in the US government unconvincing. Well, first of all, it's a novel, and novels contain things which are not true but make a good story. Secondly, I've been sufficiently involved in shedding light on various Balkan conspiracies involving the highest levels of government that little can surprise me any more. The future war in Central America is between a developed world fighting largely by remote control, and an indigenous population absorbing most of the casualties; from the 1997 perspective, this must have seemed a reasonable extrapolation from the 1990-91 Gulf War, and indeed Kosovo in 1999 and Afghanistan in 2001 were largely fought on that basis. Haldeman even has a massive, one-off attack on a major American city, though it's nuking Atlanta rather than jumbo jets in New York. The descriptions of the conflict are graphic, on a par with Lucius Shepard's Life In Wartime , and the narrative is particularly gripping as the assassin closes in on our heroes towards the end. As a novel, it works. The portrayal of Julian's suicidal impulses and emotional confusion is convincing, and we the readers can see what is really going on for Amelia through his perceptions. The fact that neither main characters is able to share in the jacked consciousness of the newly enhanced humanity is rather poignant. The final couple of pages, describing the victory of the good guys, are perhaps a little too rapid, and when we first encounter those who have already been "humanised" in their North Dakota hideout, I found the scene rather reminiscent of the decaying scientists in the 1983 Doctor Who story Mawdryn Undead, which slightly spoiled it for me. But in general, I felt the tone was more mature and the ending more plausible, if the style a little less raw, than Haldeman's earlier Hugo and Nebula winner, The Forever War . One of the least successful aspects of Haldeman's earlier book is its portrayal of a pacifist end-state for the human race. The Big Idea of Forever Peace is that this pacifist end-state can be achieved by technological intervention; through the sharing of our common humanity via "jacking". Now, the idea that the Next Big Step in human evolution will involve a fundamental shift in consciousness is quite an old one, with honorable antecedents in Olaf Stapledon and George Bernard Shaw up to Arthur C Clarke's Childhood's End and Greg Bear's Blood Music . The angle is still an unusual one. I was reminded a bit of Frank Herbert's minor novel, The Santaroga Barrier , where the hero begins by rejecting the prospect of a new form of human consciousness but end up eagerly participating. Forever Peace's biggest flaw, as a novel examining issues of humanity and morality, is that it lacks an examination of the ethics of forcing major (and risky) brain surgery on people to bestow on them the benefits of the evolutionary leap forward. On another matter entirely: since the Nebulas changed their eligibility criteria to allow novels to be considered two years running, the number of works winning both Hugo and Nebula has decreased quite dramatically. Between 1966 and 1996, 15 novels and 34 shorter works pulled off the double, ie on average more than one each year, in each case winning Hugo and Nebula for different years but awarded in the same year. Since 1996, one novel ( Forever Peace ) and one shorter work (Jack Williamson's "The Ultimate Earth" ) have managed to win both awards, in both cases for the same year but awarded in different years. It seems quite clear that, for whatever reason, the profiles of the sf likely to win each award has diverged. My own experience is that the Nebula Award final ballot is not very useful for me in identifying novels that I would like to read, and two of the three awards for Best Novel made since Forever Peace are, in my humble opinion, completely incomprehensible*. The Hugo shortlist, on the other hand, always includes several books that I already own and I usually enjoy tracking down and reading the others; and while I may disagree with three of the four Hugos for Best Novel awarded since Forever Peace I can at least understand what the voters saw in them**. Perhaps there are SF readers out there for whom the Nebulas in recent years make sense, but I have not heard from any of them. If you are one, please let me know. Normally I like to link in to other people's reviews of a particular book in the body of my own article. The sheer number of reviews of Forever Peace on the web - I guess because this books actually came out when people were in the first flush of setting up their home pages - basically meant I couldn't do that this time. Here instead is a listing of those that I found at all useful when thinking about what to write: by Robert Francis at the SF Site by Steven H Silver, also at the SF Site by Donna MacMahon, yet another at the SF Site by John Mort, for Booklist magazine by Judy Clark, at Mostly Fiction by Aaron Hughes of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Club by Noel K. Hannan at infinity plus by Max of sfreviews.com by R.F. Briggs at Yet Another Book Review Site by Clinton Lawrence in Science Fiction Weekly by Florian Breitsameter (in German) at SF-Fan.de by Birgit Will (also in German) at epilog by John Savage in Savage Reviews by Evelyn Leeper at NESFA (and elsewhere) by Nick Christenson at JetCafe by Steve Troy at his Award Winners Review site by Joaqu�n Medina Serrano (in Spanish) by Dan Sobczak at Nuketown by Michael Rawdon by the Bloomington, Indiana, Science Fiction Discussion Group by John J Reilly by Megan C. "Raven" Morris of Raven's Reviews by Neal Ziring by James E. Henderson A Marxist analysis. Also I normally include the rankings of the book reviewed and its Hugo and Nebula rivals nominees from Tristrom Cooke's Internet Top 100 SF/Fantasy List. I had expected this to be a more laborious task for Forever Peace, because of the much larger number of books involved. I have in fact abandoned the attempt, really because many of the votes for Tristrom's list predate the publication of Forever Peace and unusually it simply doesn't provide sensible statistics. In this case I has prioritised the Amazon sales ranks of the other Hugo and Nebula short-listed novels against which Forever Peace competed1. The next review in this series will be of Haldeman's earlier Hugo and Nebula winner, The Forever War . Forever Peace won the 1998 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Other winners of 1998 Hugos: ". Where Angels Fear to Tread" , by Allen Steele (best novella); "We Will Drink a Fish Together. " , by Bill Johnson (best novelette); "The 43 Antarean Dynasties" , by Mike Resnick (best short story). Novels which were in contention for the 1999 Hugo and also lost to Forever Peace for the 1998 Nebula: Hugo winner To Say Nothing of the Dog , by Connie Willis; Hugo shortlisted Children of God , by Mary Doria Russell, and Darwinia , by Robert Charles Wilson; Hugo preliminary list Island in the Sea of Time , by S. M. Stirling, Komarr , by Lois McMaster Bujold, Brown Girl in the Ring , by Nalo Hopkinson, Moonfall , by Jack McDevitt, Cosm , by Gregory Benford, Maximum Light , by Nancy Kress, and Kirinyaga , by Mike Resnick. Forever Peace won the 1998 Nebula Award for Best Novel. Other winners of 1998 Nebulas: "Reading the Bones" , by Sheila Finch (best novella); "Lost Girls" , by Jane Yolen (best novelette); "Thirteen Ways to Water" , by Bruce Holland Rogers (best short story). Novels which lost to Forever Peace for the 1998 Hugo and were also in contention for the 1997 Nebula : Nebula winner , by Vonda N. McIntyre; Nebula shortlisted City on Fire , by Walter Jon Williams; Nebula Preliminary Nominees God's Fires , by Patricia Anthony, Corrupting Dr. Nice , by John Kessel, and An Exchange of Hostages , by Susan R. Matthews. Other awards. Winner of 1998 John W Campbell Award Third place in 1998 Locus Poll for Best Novel (beaten by The Rise of Endymion , by Dan Simmons) 9th place in 1998 Locus Poll for All Time Best SF Novel before 1990. Novel rankings. Ranks of Hugo and Nebula nominated novels of 1986/87 in Tristrom Cooke's Internet Top 100 SF/Fantasy List , extended list , version of 26 September 2002 (NB I have now added amazon.com sales rank, as of 21 October 2004, as a point of comparison): Amazon rank Cooke rank 6,511 20 The Rise of Endymion , by Dan Simmons 21,294 700 To Say Nothing of the Dog , by Connie Willis 37,664 1,757 How Few Remain , by Harry Turtledove 74,749 2020 Forever Peace , by Joe Haldeman 75,869 3655 Moonfall , by Jack McDevitt 76,071 - City on Fire , by Walter Jon Williams 83,365 3525 Frameshift , by Robert J. Sawyer 181,106 - The Last Hawk , by 567,825 3388 Jack Faust , by Michael Swanwick 717,827 - City on Fire , by Walter Jon Williams. * For the record: I consider The Parable of the Talents , by Octavia Butler, to be a comprehensible and worthy winner of the Nebula Award for 2000, though had I been voting I would probably have gone for George R.R. Martin's A Clash of Kings or Ken MacLeod's The Cassini Division . I cannot say the same for Greg Bear's Darwin's Radio , which beat both A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold and Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson for the 2001 award. And while the 2002 shortlist is generally uninspiring, with the singular exception of George R.R. Martin's superb A Storm of Swords , I simply cannot comprehend the award going to Catherine Asaro's The Quantum Rose , with its awful stereotyped romantic lead characters and contrived attempts to link the plot to quantum mechanics. ** The Hugo Award I agree with was the 1999 one to To Say Nothing Of the Dog , by Connie Willis. For 2000 I'd have picked A Civil Campaign or Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon over A Deepness in the Sky , for 2001 Ken MacLeod's The Sky Road or George R.R. Martin's A Storm of Swords rather than Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire , and for 2002 Bujold's Curse of Chalion rather than Gaiman's , but I'll admit that it's a close call in all three cases and I certainly respect the judgement of those who voted the other way. Related pages on this site: Reviews: Poul Anderson, "Goat Song" Isaac Asimov, "The Bicentennial Man" Isaac Asimov, "" Greg Bear, "Blood Music" Greg Bear, Darwin's Radio Terry Bisson, "Bears Discover Fire" Terry Bisson, "macs" Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign Octavia Butler, "Bloodchild" The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction Mark Campbell, Pocket Essentials: Doctor Who Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game Ted Chiang, Hell Is the Absence of God Arthur C. Clarke, The Fountains of Paradise Neil Gaiman, American Gods Neil Gaiman, Coraline Joe Haldeman, Forever Peace Joe Haldeman, The Forever War Frank Herbert, Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon Nancy Kress, "Beggars in Spain" Ursula Le Guin, Fritz Leiber, "Catch That Zeppelin" Fritz Leiber, "Gonna Roll The Bones" Kelly Link, "The Faery Handbag" Barry B. Longyear, Enemy Mine Vonda N. McIntyre, George Mann (ed.), The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Frederik Pohl, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Charles Sheffield, Georgia On My Mind Clifford D. Simak, Grotto of the Dancing Deer Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky Connie Willis, Connie Willis, "Even the Queen" Connie Willis, "Fire Watch" David Wingrove (ed), The Science Fiction Source Book. brief reviews of the joint winners of the Hugo and Nebula awards, 1st page, 2nd page and 3rd page. 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Joe Haldeman is an American author of fiction. Born on June 9, 1943, he is the brother of Jack C. Haldeman II and a Vietnam War veteran. He is known for The Forever War series, the Attar the Merman series under his pen name Robert Graham. He is the author of the Marsbound and Worlds series and contributed to the Star Trek Adventures series. He has written over twenty fiction novels and come out with five collections of poetry and short stories. Haldeman is a noted science fiction writer as well as a teacher, retiring after working for many years as an associate professor at M.I.T. teaching in the Department of Writing and Humanistic Studies. He is an active member and mentor of the writing community. He began writing when he was first drafted into the services of the Army way back in 1967. He was a combat engineer in Vietnam and fought in the Central Highlands of Vietnam with the Fourth Division. Haldeman was awarded the Purple Heart medal and several others. He sold his first story in 1969. He was awarded the title of Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master at the Nebula Awards Weekend by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in Hollywood, Florida in 2010. Joe Haldeman has also won several other awards, including the Rhysling Award, Locus Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the James Tiptree Jr. Award, . He lives in Florida with his wife Gay. He enjoys painting, riding his bike, playing guitar, looking at the skies with a telescope, and writing. The Forever War is the first book in the fictional series by the same name. It was well-received and won several awards, including Hugo, Ditmar, and Nebula Awards. He followed the first book with the sequel Forever Peace and the third and final book in the series, Forever Free. The Forever War Series starts off with the main character of Private William Mandella. He has been summoned to an elite military unit and is now off through space to fight a war that has been waged for a thousand years with no end in sight. The Forever War is the first in the series of the same name. This exciting book from Joe Haldeman sets the stage for an exciting trilogy and won him the awards for the Best Novel from the Hugo and Nebula Awards. It starts off with Private William Mandella being drafted into an elite military unit. Now he is being shuttled through time and space as a soldier who has been conscripted to fight in this 1000-year war.He will be expected to perform his duties and might even be able to rise through the ranks. While Mandella never actually wanted to take the ticket and ride the train to war, he doesn’t have a choice about it. If that’s what the military leaders say that he does, then that is what he does. Mandella is doing his best to get along and not rock the boat. His grand plan is to do what he has to in order to survive the ordeal and go home. The enemy is an alien that cannot be known and they appear to be unable to be conquered, not to mention very far away. But that is what Earth’s leaders want; to take on the alien and try to win the war in the process. They’re drawing a line in the sand. Even though he’s going to war, William has no idea that his true test will begin once he gets back home. Like Odysseus returning from afar, his trials are not over. And space travel is not what it seems to be. Because of the fluctuations caused by time dilation from his travels, Private William Mandella is now aging just months. But the planet is aging centuries at the same time. They’re on two different wavelengths, and they are never going to be able to catch up. His journey back home is not what he thought that it would be. William finds that what he thought would be the same place waiting for him has radically changed. Even though he survived the war, he isn’t able to find the home that he thought he would be returning to. In fact, he might never be able to go home again. With a heavy heart, William must learn to go on and adapt to the place he finds himself. It might not be the same home that he remembers, but it will have to do. Can Private Mandella adapt to the new place he finds himself into, or will he be emotionally destroyed by the loss of what he knew? Pick up Joe Haldeman’s debut novel The Forever War to find out! Forever Peace is the second book in the Forever War series by dynamic science fiction author Joe Haldeman. If you loved the works of Isaac Asimov or classic paperback science fiction writers, you might really enjoy this novel from Haldeman that won the Best Novel Award from the Hugo and Nebula Awards as well as the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the same category. The year is 2043 A.D. and the Ngumi War is still going on. The consequences of this are that life on Earth is starting to head for its end. Julian is a soldier who is totally burned out on the war. But he does have one thing, and that is the company of Dr. Amelia Harding. Amelia and Julian are lovers, and when they make a discovery together one day it could change everything. What they find could change the universe forever and put everything back to the way it was at the start. This could stop the war machine and end everything for good, ending the destruction of life once and for all. The Ngumi War could be ended tomorrow. The soldier and the scientist are now faced with the ultimate temptation to fix everything for good and end the war. But even if they can go through with it, will it work– or throw everything out of balance forever? You have got to pick up the second book in the Forever War series by Haldeman to find out for yourself! BOOK REVIEW | Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman. When Joe Haldeman, early in his career, penned his 1970s science fiction classic The Forever War , he claimed his niche in the genre. Whatever happened after that, however well or poorly he performed, however much or little he expanded his legacy, his place at the table was secure. The general consensus is that, despite a career with several successes, he has never managed to equal that early novel. My experience with Mr. Haldeman is too limited to opine on that point, but I can say that in 1997, when he wrote Forever Peace , he definitely fell short but did not miss by a large amount. Julian Class, a physicist and conscript in the American armed forces, is the protagonist of a story that transpires in the 2040s. The United States, now turned into a centrally planned economy, is at war with guerrillas all over South America and Africa. The principal weapon on the ground is the soldierboy, a deadly robot used for anything from patrolling to reconnaissance to assaults and assassinations. The soldierboys are remote controlled by soldiers like Class who are “jacked in” to the soldierboy through a plug surgically inserted into their brains, Matrix -style (perhaps it would be fairer to say -style). An entire squad of soldiers controlling the soldierboys attain a oneness with each other, such that everyone’s feelings, thoughts, and experiences are collectively shared. More than simply walking a mile in another’s shoes, this jacking is akin to walking an entire life in another’s shoes, socks, pants, underwear, and t-shirt. At one point Julian Class, who is black, reflects that there is no racism among these soldiers, because it simply is not possible to be racist when you have essentially been another race, or several other races, for days at a time. This idea anticipates a larger revelation made later, which becomes the main point of the book. The conscripts forced to fight in the so-called Ngumi War and man the soldierboys work for ten straight days, ensconced in a pod, and then have twenty days off. At this point they may fly for free anywhere they like as long as they report back to base for their next ten day cycle. Class splits his time between his job as a physics professor in Texas, where he is the lover of an older physics professor named Amelia Harding, and his slavery to the military. This early part of the book, initially gripping, is dragged out for too long. It is simply an establishment of the characters and their situation, but for a while it meanders without destination. I found it creative and interesting, but after Class kept bouncing back and forth between Texas and Panama, doing the same sorts of things, I began to yearn for a plot point of some sort. There is character development, mainly in the relationship between Julian and Amelia, but very little reason why it must occur in this particular world. In a book of 350 pages, it is well over a hundred before anything like a central conflict with established stakes begins to develop. When the central conflict does emerge, by means of two separate disclosures that tie together, the story gets going and renews one’s interest. Two opposed groups see, in this new information, an opportunity to not only further their interests but to realize their goals once and for all, and one group’s win means the other group’s devastating loss. From that point the story keeps the reader absorbed until the end. Haldeman writes efficient, easy-to-read prose, and alternates between first-person perspective told from Julian Class’ point of view and third- person omniscient. It is an excellent decision for the story, reinforcing one of the aspects of the world: sometimes we are “jacked in” to Julian, sometimes we are not. However, I have often found that writers of his sort, who budget their words with the parsimony of Ebenezer Scrooge, have a tendency to relate the mechanics of a scene and leave out the soul. They often, though not always, focus on gross motor movements at the expense of other details, descriptions, fine motor movements, similes, internal conflicts and reactions, and anything else that might enliven our experience and help us get to know the characters and the world they live in. Julian Class, for example, has a handful of poignant, sometimes tragic, experiences that impact him for, one presumes, the rest of his life. The descriptions of his reactions are purely mechanical. Even from the vantage point of his first-person perspective we are told nothing to indicate how he feels, not even so much as a mention of a clenched fist or altered breathing rhythm. Something usually comes out in dialogue a chapter or two later, but that is it. There is a passage in the book where a character attempts suicide, but until the moment the pills go into his mouth we are given little reason to suspect he is even having a bad day. It makes it difficult for the reader to connect with characters when the author treats them like robots. The politics of the novel could generate a lot of discussion. Haldeman seems to come from an essentially leftist/progressive perspective, although his story has some welcome nuances. His treatment of racism, for instance, makes it a real problem in America midway through the twenty-first century, to the point where I felt a touch skeptical. For instance, the black protagonist is dating an older white woman, and this is kept secret because, even at a university, this mixed match would have provoked hostility from colleagues. For a novel written in the 1990s to imagine societal disapproval of that kind of pairing half a century later is curious. I would not think that such a pairing would be taboo even back then, at least not at a university. However, Haldeman has the sensitivity not to treat humans simply as racists and non-racists. There are different brands and levels of malignancy of racism. A woman Julian jacks with, for instance, tells him afterward that she is not a racist. Julian notes, “She was, in a way, but not malicious and not in a way she could control.” I think I know a few people like that. When Haldeman writes about the origin of the Ngumi War, he again reveals his leftist slant. The United States has developed nano forges, armies of microscopic robots that, given the right raw materials, can make virtually anything. It is a technology coveted by all, but America — more precisely the American military — shares it with few. It is depicted as a tool used to keep countries compliant. When they get out of line and their civilians attack US forces, their allotment of nano forges is cut back. According to the author, the very inequality in wealth enforced by this rationing of nano forges is what caused the Ngumi War in the first place. That, in my experience, is a sure sign of a progressive: the one who says there will be no peace until there is justice, but who, by justice, means equality, and equality of just about everything imaginable. MASSIVE SPOILER MASSIVE SPOILER MASSIVE SPOILER. There was one comment in the book that I found more interesting than just about anything else, something that I doubt the author himself would consider important, but it reveals the great gulf between Haldeman and a libertarian of my ilk. It is revealed that any humans who stay jacked with each other for a certain period of time become so attuned to other people, even ones they have not jacked with, that it becomes impossible for them to commit aggression against another human being, or even to strike out in revenge. They are physically incapable of employing violence except in direct defense of themselves or others with whom they have jacked. What I found so fascinating is that some of the characters hatch a plot to install jacks in every human on the planet and pacify them through longterm jacking. They recognize that this would have the effect of ending all wars everywhere. However, even as they discuss this plan they talk about certain laws that might be passed afterwards. How exactly they were going to pass laws with any weight to them is not explained. It does not dawn on the characters, nor on the author one suspects, that this pacification of the human race would not only end wars, it would end any possibility of government. If they could not initiate coercion, why would anyone heed their laws? I could right now, from the comfort of my basement, pass a poll tax on Nigerians and achieve no less than they. There is, in that development in the story, a real chance to unmask the nature of government, but Haldeman, it seems, has not read enough Rothbard. END OF SPOILER END OF SPOILER END OF SPOILER. All in all, I enjoyed the book. It is not without its flaws, but the idea is interesting, the writing is smooth if a bit sterile at times, and the story, once it gets going, can hold a reader’s attention. I would rank it decidedly below The Forever War , but there is plenty of space beneath that fine piece of work for some good stories to fit. Forever Peace is one.