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Peace is built up day after day in the pursuit of an order willed by God[ 1023] and can flourish only when all recognize that everyone is responsible for promoting it.¹⁰²⁴ Cf. Paul VI, Message for the 1974 World Day of Peace: AAS 65AAS — Acta Apostolicae Sedis (official gazette of the Holy See)Volume 65 (1973) at vatican.va — scanned PDF (1973), 672. To prevent conflicts and violence, it is absolutely necessary that peace begin to take root as a value rooted deep within the heart of every person. In this way it can spread to families and to the different associations within society until the whole of the political community is involved.¹⁰²⁵ Cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2317. In a climate permeated with harmony and respect for justice, an authentic culture of peace ¹⁰²⁶ John Paul II, Address to the Diplomatic Corps (13 January 1997), 3: L'Osservatore Romano, English edition, 15 January 1997, pp. 6-7. can grow and can even pervade the entire international community. Peace is, consequently, the fruit of “that harmony structured into human society by its Divine Founder and which must be actualized by men as they aspire for ever greater justice”.¹⁰²⁷ Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 78: AAS 58AAS — Acta Apostolicae Sedis (official gazette of the Holy See)Volume 58 (1966) at vatican.va — scanned PDF (1966), 1101; cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2304. Such an ideal of peace “cannot be obtained on earth unless the welfare of man is safeguarded and people freely and trustingly share with one another the riches of their minds and their talents”.¹⁰²⁸ Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes, 78: AAS 58AAS — Acta Apostolicae Sedis (official gazette of the Holy See)Volume 58 (1966) at vatican.va — scanned PDF (1966), 1101.