New Delhi, Sept. 6 -- In today's world, conversations about peace often feel strangely out of place. We live amid chaos: wars that seem endless, political disturbances that fracture societies, ecological destruction that triggers disasters, and conflicts that seep into the most intimate spaces of our lives-between parents and children, partners, siblings, and even strangers on the road. Road rage incidents rise, families fracture, and communities struggle to hold themselves together.

Against this backdrop, speaking of peace may sound naive, even unrealistic. Yet it is precisely in such times of turbulence that dialogue on conflict resolution and peacebuilding becomes not only relevant but urgent.

Peace is not the absence of conflict; it...