So far as I know, you are the first person to connect the communicative dimension directly with the notion of peace. Of course the peaceful solution of human problems is of central concern to Habermas and his use of the notion of communicative competence, and many people would regard communicative problems as barriers to peace. But the sharp conjunction of the phrase communicative peace seems to go farther, and even suggest, not only mediation, but meditation, the achievement of a peace within persons that is more than absence of conflict, but a state of being. I do fear that the limitations of the earth, the pressure of population against them, may make the next century more horrible than the present one, if there is not a radical change, if governments and peoples do not abandon much of what has seemed desirable, possible, necessary until now. If we are not able to share the world, we will surely live in unending violence. Perhaps attention to the conditions of communicative peace may help achieve the social and personal requisites for such sharing.Dell Hymes (personal communication, August 30, 1993) To me, communicative peace means using all of our human intelligence to breach the gaps between people, to have them find their commonalities, and above all, to treat each other with dignity and respect. This process does not mean compromising the truth, as one sees it, but recognizing that other's perspective of the truth may be different-and just as "correct." Milton Schwebel (personal communication,