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Peace is the mission of our day. What does peace have to do with truth? Perhaps that we cannot make it reality as long as we have not learned how to think the truth. That, in any case, is how I would like to understand this question, which was posed to me with this topic as a suggestion.

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    This speech was delivered in 1967 and published in: Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Der ungesicherte Friede [The Insecure Peace] (Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 21979): 9–31. It was translated for this volume by Ms. Ann Hentschel with the financial support of the Udo Keller Foundation.

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    Speech delivered at the Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag [German Evangelical Church Congress] in Hannover in June 1967. Peace was the guiding theme of the congress.

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    See Chap. 4 on ‘World Domestic Policy’ in this volume.

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von Weizsäcker, C.F. (2015). Insecure Peace. In: Bartosch, U. (eds) Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts on Politics and Peace Research. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice(), vol 25. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13308-9_6

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