Peace and conflict are not antagonists, especially if the conflicting parties use nonviolent, less
violent and non-lethal means of conflict resolution and transformation. Even peace and war are
not always antitheses if parties who find themselves reluctantly pulled into war make every
effort to reduce the incidence and lethality of violent conflicts and operations during a war and
in good faith resolve to end the violence as expeditiously as possible and not to inflict violence
on civilian and military non-combatants