noun

• A person who brings about peace, especially by reconciling adversaries.

  ‘In recent years, groups of children have taken on the roles of peacemakers in bringing forward personal causes for peace.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Enter no arguments, not even as a peacemaker, referee or umpire.’
  • ‘There are those who would say that Christianity really requires us to be peacemakers and to be Pacifists.’
  • ‘Winchester peacemakers are offering mediation to soothe relations between neighbours.’
  • ‘Well, on a personal level, how does he behave behind closed doors as a mediator, as a peacemaker of sorts?’
  • ‘Shadowy intermediaries and peacemakers were active in both lands.’
  • ‘He has been a great peacemaker, particularly in negotiations with the players association.’
  • ‘It's a conceptual tool for trying to evaluate enormously complex situations in the midst of a gospel that is, so to speak, biased toward blessing peacemakers.’
  • ‘Before we exclude amnesty from the tools available to peacemakers, we need to conduct more research into the conditions of its successes and failures.’
  • ‘I said blessed are the peacemakers, not the warmongers!’
  • ‘‘It is fitting that Dublin city should bestow its greatest honour on one of the greatest peacemakers of our time,’ he said.’
  • ‘They say that they're the peacemakers, we're the warmongers.’
  • ‘The series also includes discussions with peacekeepers and peacemakers about some of the challenges that arise from religiously driven violence.’
  • ‘People in this country have often been peacemakers.’
  • ‘The organisation sets up prayer groups worldwide to support its workers in the field and aims to have 100,000 peacemakers ready to be deployed around the world.’
  • ‘So older people need peacemakers much more than younger people.’
  • ‘It's a trying week for diplomacy, but blessed are the peacemakers for they shall find creative ways of conflict resolution.’
  • ‘There were also a few players from both teams who went into the crowd trying to act as peacemakers and restore order.’
  • ‘European peacemakers also helped shape this growing culture of peace.’
  • ‘Now that both teams have lost their peacemakers, things may heat up between the remaining contestants.’

  Synonyms

  arbitrator, arbiter, mediator, negotiator, conciliator, go-between, middleman, intermediary, moderator, intervenor, interceder, intercessor, reconciler, broker, honest broker, liaison officer, pacifier, appeaser

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