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Depends on what you mean by peace. If by peace you mean a lack of all conflict, then I would say no. We need some conflict to spur us into action in order to prosper. If we had absolutely no conflict at all then we would fall into a state of perpetual contentedness and never achieve anything more. Then again if there was absolutely no conflict then that might not matter.
However, if you mean conflict in the traditional physical sense then I would say yes. First, there we can turn our contentiousness inward and focus on progressing against things like hunger, poverty, or even death or time itself. Second and more persuasive, I feel that there will always be conflict of some kind. To be biblical about it, we are imperfect beings and in many ways our existence is disruptive to the natural order of things. This is a dual edged sword as it allows us to progress by spiraling upwards fighting the conflicts that beset us while at the same time cursing us to perpetually conflict (this applies to both conflicts we create and conflicts involving our discontentedness with nature.
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