In a time when we are massively exposed to the premeditated devaluation and destruction of life in especially extra-western locations, Borg and Grech, along with their contributors, achieve a critical scholarly intervention that refuses to rescind the hope for genuine peace that should be rightfully accorded to all. As such, this book represents a uniquely original disquisition that should shift the way we think about peace and international relations; its arguments should persuade us to once again believe in the possibilities of viable and re-humanizing citizenships that affirm and improve the lives of people across the world.

Ali Abdi, Professor and Head, Department of Educational Studies, The University of British Columbia, Canada

This collection of essays offers an insightful multi-layered and multi-disciplinary theoretical reflection on the nature and meaning of peace and peace education as a critical moral imperative. In doing so, the collection makes a significant contribution to the philosophy of critical peace education.

Dale T. Snauwaert, Professor of Philosophy of Education and Co-Director of the Graduate Certificate in the Foundations of Peace Education, The University of Toledo, USA

In an era of normalised war and conflict it becomes almost impossible to conceive of an emancipatory ethics of peace as anything other than a pipe dream. In this collection, peace is understood as the absence of conflict and as the experience of justice between people and between nations – a conceptualisation which magnifies the enormity of the task of turning dreams into reality. But it is precisely because of the scale of the challenge that we need critical pedagogical books like this that can step outside the despair of everyday assumptions and inspire and challenge us to think and act differently and at the same time make hope for a world at peace convincing.

Jim Crowther, Senior Lecturer in Community Education, The University of Edinburgh, UK