keeping the peace
Preventing conflict escalation
Keeping the peace means maintaining order and preventing conflict or violence.
The phrase often describes police work or peacekeeping forces: Officers were deployed for keeping the peace during the protest.
In everyday contexts, it means avoiding arguments or smoothing over tensions: I just nodded along, keeping the peace with my in-laws.
- policeCivil law enforcement
- patrolRegular surveillance route
- law and orderGovernance through enforced rules
- law enforcementUpholding legal codes
- calmFree from agitation
cooling off period · ceasefire · hush · police protection · arbitration · conciliation · treaty · soothe · truce · orderliness · listen · détente · mediation · de-escalation · standing down · silence · diplomacy · quiet diplomacy
keeping the peaceinciting violence
Deliberately provoking physical harm
instigating · agitating · fanning the flames · troublemaking · making waves
keeping the peacedisturbing the peace
Criminal public disruption
rioting · civil unrest · insurrection · anarchy · inciting riot
keeping the peacedeclaring war
Formal announcement of military action
taking up arms · confrontation · aggression · belligerence · hostility
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