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War is negative-sum, not zero-sum. Peace is zero-sum. It’s for vegetables. We don’t have a true antonym for war. It is not peace, but some sort of coherent nonzero-sum flourishing. Like “tech boom”, “gold rush” or “space age” Word proposals now being entertained
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There's this Greek word, ophelos, which means to 'heap together' as related to profit, benefit, advantage. So that could be fun to resurrect, but hard. Got me thinking, of "fellowship" - almost certainly a step past 'peace' and exactly the word you need - though gender neutral?
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I'm increasingly satisfied with "fellowship" as the word you need. It's impossible in war or conflict, It's related to one of the types of loves C.S. Lewis discusses, and I think in that 'heavy' sense captures what you need.
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