"Normally, when I say this is something that has happened, I find I encounter a great deal of incredulity among the general public." No, not just the general p

"Normally, when I say this is something that has happened, I find I encounter a great deal of incredulity among the general public." No, not just the general public; the 'long peace' is a hotly contested idea amongst academic and professional circles too. And, it's arguably a rather large amount of hand-wavey bullshit trying to paint certain nation states in a particular light and narrowly define 'war', 'peace', and 'violence'.