This book explores the interdisciplinary arena of peace studies and shows how the field has evolved and continues to grow and change. Dedicated to bringing students face to face with the grave injustices and violence in the contemporary world, it equips them with the tools to work for transformational change. Informed by an intersectional perspective, scholar-activist authors probe contested terrain, including teaching social justice from a place of privilege, decolonializing pedagogies, and community organizing. Games and simulations, storytelling, experiential integrated learning, and other pedagogical approaches are employed to encourage critical thinking, empathy, optimism, and activism.

Margaret Groarke is Associate Professor of Political Science at Manhattan College. She was Director of Peace Studies there for 11 years, and Co-Chair of the Peace and Justice Studies Association for 4 years. She is co-author, with Frances Fox Piven and Lorraine C. Minnite, of Keeping Down the Black Vote (New Press, 2009), and articles on community organizing and American electoral politics. Emily Welty is Director of Peace and Justice Studies, and Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, at Pace University. Her previous publications include Occupying Political Science: Occupy Wall Street from New York City to the World (Palgrave, 2013) and Unity in Diversity: Interfaith Dialogue in the Middle East (United States Institute of Peace, 2007).