In 1999 the UN instituted the Program of Action on a Culture of Peace, leading to the Declaration of the International Decade for the Promotion of a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World 2001-2010. This represented a paradigm shift away from the prevailing conceptualization of peace as the absence of war to one of creating cultures of peace, and indicated a significant opening for peace educators and the expansion of their mission and field in peace research and scholarship.

This book seeks to address several questions about the emergence, present state,...