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The absence of peace, education and health structures break down, systems to provide infrastructure disintegrate, and legal commerce is crippled. Critically, peace also frees up resources, both financial and human, that would otherwise be diverted to controlling (or creating) violence.
Peace is a pre-requisite for development as a whole because it creates an enabling environment for the fundamentals of a society’s progress: human capital formation, infrastructure development, markets subject to the rule of law, and so on.
Societies that are resilient to violent conflict are those where different groups can constructively interact with one another to address potential causes of tension, such as socio-economic, political, ethnic or religious differences, or unequal resource allocation. To respond to this challenge, states increasingly adopt more systematic and institutionalized ways to manage conflict and build peace. These institutions, mechanisms, resources, and skills through which conflicts can be resolved and peace sustained within a society can be described as infrastructures for peace.
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