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Dona nobis pacem (English: Grant us peace) is a cantata written by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1936 and first performed on 2 October of that year. The work was commissioned to mark the centenary of the Huddersfield Choral Society. Vaughan Williams produced his plea for peace by referring to recent wars during the growing fears of a new one.
Our Last Best Chance: The Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril (Arabic: فرصتنا الأخيرة: السعي نحو السلام في وقت الخطر) is a book written by King Abdullah II of Jordan and published by Viking Press in New York City.
The most-prominent hymn version of the prayer is "Make Me a Channel of Your Peace", or simply "Prayer of St. Francis", adapted and set to a chant-like melody in 1967 by South African songwriter Sebastian Temple (born Johann Sebastian von Tempelhoff, 1928–1997), who had become a Third Order Franciscan.
A simple pole outside Braintree Town Hall expresses a wish for peace in eight different languages, one of thousands worldwide.
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Taipingjing ("Scriptures of the Great Peace") is the name of several different Taoist texts. At least two works were known by this title: At least two works were known by this title: Chinese : 天官歷包元太平經 ; pinyin : Tiānguān lì Bāoyuán Tàipíng jīng , 12 Chapters, contents unknown, author: Gan Zhongke 甘忠可
Kumar, a PhD Research fellow at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, juxtaposes Krishnamurti's and Aurobindo Ghose's (Sri Aurobindo) approaches to peace as part of the Handbook's focus on "the etymological meaning, the religious, legal and political use of the word peace." [n 17] Martin, Raymond (2003).
In many languages, the word 'peace' is also used as a greeting or a farewell, for example the Hawaiian word aloha, as well as the Arabic word salaam. In English the word peace is occasionally used as a farewell, especially for the dead, as in the phrases "rest in peace" or "peace out".