Abstract
The main focus in the paper is the connection between trust and peace which
makes predictability as a necessary condition of the normalcy of life possible, especially
collective and communal life. Peace is defined as a specific articulation of the distribution
of (political) power within a society. Peace defined in such a way requires a set of rules
(norms, or laws) needed for the stability of the established social state of affairs. The main
purpose of those norms, laws, is to provide predictability without which stability of such a
state of affairs is not possible. The role of trust in this scheme is crucial. However, trust
precedes the peace (defined as a set of accepted set of laws), and cannot be obtained by
enforcing such normative instruments as laws. Trust is so a component of freedom, the
same which contains distrust as its possible component. In this sense peace should be
taken as the power of control, first the control over ourselves, the power which makes
status and existence of trust possible and feasible