peace initiative
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- noun
- /piːs ɪˈnɪʧətɪv/
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iniciativa de paz
- European leaders have praised President's peace initiative.
- Arab peace initiative
This is a joint US Russian peace initiative.
- This is a joint US Russian peace initiative.
- And what I realized was, like the Palestinians, they've worked so hard to get the Arab world to stay with the line of the Air Peace Initiative.
Examples
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A series of peace initiatives have been pursued, but none has succeeded to date.
Academic text (2009) -
A second peace initiative was taking place simultaneously with the Hack-Fujimura attempts.
Academic text (1993) -
"But the purpose of that trip was to discuss the peace initiative."
Blog text (21) -
Any new peace initiative needs to take the question within a broader regional framework if it wants to be more effective.
Academic text (2017) -
It's part of the disarmament and peace initiative.
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In his last year, the weakened president had no clout to develop his peace initiative.
Academic text (2003) -
Concurrently, artillery shelling of Jinmen stopped, and a series of further peace initiatives followed.
Academic text (1991) -
In the months following his trial, Soyinka campaigned through the Nigerian press for peace initiatives to stem the rising tide of violence in the north.
Academic text (2008) -
Therefore, when President George Bush announced a new Arab-Israeli peace initiative in March 1991, most observers viewed his proposal with understandable skepticism.
Academic text (1994) -
The United Nations launched a new peace initiative to resolve the ongoing conflict between the two nations.
Synonyms
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Helping people or groups end a conflict and start good relations
Actions that try to stop fighting and help people agree
Antonyms
How Serious
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'peace' (absence of conflict) with 'initiative' (a plan or action); together they plainly denote an action or proposal aimed at achieving peace. This noun+noun composition is a common, cross-linguistic pattern and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
The phrase peace initiative creates a clear image: someone steps forward with an olive branch to begin ending a fight. So, peace means 'no fighting' and initiative means 'the first action', which is why the phrase means 'an action or proposal to start talks'.