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the one risking everything to convince two angry parties to put the knives down.
means A person who works to end conflict and bring about reconciliation between opposing parties.
from A transparent English compound of 'peace' and 'maker,' joining the Latin-rooted 'peace' (from 'pax,' via Old French 'pais') to the homegrown 'maker.' It appears in English from the 15th century, and was famously elevated in the Sermon on the Mount — 'Blessed are the peacemakers' — in the early English Bible translations, which lodged the word firmly in the language. Later, with grim irony, 'Peacemaker' became a nickname for various weapons, including the Colt revolver, on the logic that overwhelming force keeps the peace.
- Nobel origin
- Dynamite inventor Nobel funded the Peace Prize
- colt nickname
- A famous revolver was called the Peacemaker
- casualty risk
- Mediators are often the first attacked by both sides
- folk wisdom
- Blessed are the peacemakers, per the Beatitudes
- cold war
- A US nuclear missile bore the same name
jimmy carter — brokered camp david accords between israel and egypt, september 1978