Communication (kə-myū'nĭ-kā'shən), n.

The act of communicating; transmission. The exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speech, signals, writing, or behaviour. Interpersonal rapport.

Communication: a defining human capability, a human need, a human right. Violence is a failure to communicate. Barriers to communication, including active repression and structural inequities, are all too common forms of violence. Peace is impossible to achieve, even conceive, without communication. Today, at the level of exchange, we have successfully communicated peace, to publics, to scholarly and NGO communities, to policy-makers. The problem is transmission. The sheer unresponsiveness of institutional frameworks threatens to reduce us to impotent bystanders. How can we intensify our efforts, to communicate peace to bring about real change?

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