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Whether or not, and how, 'security' and 'peace' go together has always been an issue of discussion among peace researchers. The focus on peace instead of on (military) security was constitutive for early German 'critical peace research'. The inception of S+F can be regarded as an attempt to bridge the divide between peace and security studies. In this regard, the title of the journal was programmatic. It served a useful purpose when, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, peace research (with important exceptions, of course) tended to move towards critical security studies combined with a reductionist understanding of peace as 'comprehensive security' and as a label on a tool box for civil conflict management (in the 'new wars'). In this context, S+F reminded the community of the need to maintain the distinction between peace and security. The journal also offered the space for debating this distinction in terms of the different logics of peace and security.