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Disaster state, peace will come later (8)

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I believe the answer is:

calamity

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'disaster' is the definition.
(I know that disaster can be written as calamity)

'state peace will come later' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'state' could be 'amity' (amity is a kind of state) and 'amity' is present in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for calamity that I've seen before include "Blow" , "Musical set in Deadwood" , "15 [JANE] the frontierswoman" , "A disaster, like Western heroine Jane" , "distress" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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