Originally Posted by gashcr

For a culture that never knew war, there would be no concept of peace, as they see it as their natural state. BUT... there is always the concept of conflict, as they would know no war with other cultures, but chances are few they never had a conflict, so they could understand a concept of peace in terms of the absence of conflict. By this means, even if there is no real concept of war, imperfection of society would keep alive the concept of peace... Even though, peace still would need a contrast in order to be recognized. Even when a state exists, it requires some contrast in order to be visible to people affected by it, if not, it will just be seen as a natural state and wouldn't be took in consideration, even as a concept, neither a word to describe it.