peaceful coexistence

By emphasizing peaceful coexistence between newly arrived English migrants and already settled Wampanoags, annual celebrations of Thanksgiving have, perhaps unintentionally, minimized the violence inherent in colonization.

Now, a dramatic new approach pioneered by local conservationists and villagers is upending that seemingly irreconcilable tension, using Buddhist principles to turn enmity into peaceful coexistence.

This makes peaceful coexistence difficult, if not impossible.

In 1968 the Bulgarian media openly denounced the concept of peaceful coexistence with the West.