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The size of the army was reduced during peacetime.
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Crimes against humanity do not need to be linked to an armed conflict and can also occur in peacetime.
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Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Croatian actor Dado Ćosić stars as partisan hero Lovro who fought the local fascist forces of the Ustashas and the Nazis as a young man during WWII and then built a career as a film director in peacetime.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 3 Dec. 2024
The dictatorship’s list of crimes is much longer than that, encompassing peacetime abuses and stretching back 54 years, to when Assad’s father, Hafez, first assumed the throne.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
To do this, governments must first ensure that key human decisions, such as those pertaining to proportionality and discrimination, are made not in wartime, when there will be no time to think, but in peacetime, when expert input, democratic debate, and high-level oversight are possible.
—Sebastian Elbaum, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2024
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Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Croatian actor Dado Ćosić stars as partisan hero Lovro who fought the local fascist forces of the Ustashas and the Nazis as a young man during WWII and then built a career as a film director in peacetime.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 3 Dec. 2024
The dictatorship’s list of crimes is much longer than that, encompassing peacetime abuses and stretching back 54 years, to when Assad’s father, Hafez, first assumed the throne.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
To do this, governments must first ensure that key human decisions, such as those pertaining to proportionality and discrimination, are made not in wartime, when there will be no time to think, but in peacetime, when expert input, democratic debate, and high-level oversight are possible.
—Sebastian Elbaum, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Peacetime.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peacetime. Accessed 3 Jan. 2025.
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peacetime
noun
peace·time
ˈpē-ˌstīm 
: a time when a nation is not at war
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