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Peace education is a diverse, complicated, and controversial area of educational practice. It has international connotations and links with conflict resolution and development, and is gaining more precedence in the debates of international organizations such as UNESCO, and international nongovernmental organizations such as Oxfam and Action Aid. Approaches toward peace education remain disjointed and inconsistent, however. Few deny that the world in which we live is becoming evermore interdependent. Our multicultural societies and increased international mobility, together with international competition for resources and multilateral approaches to conflict and development, mean that peace can no longer be considered in terms of discrete national initiatives. If we hope to create a viable culture of peace that can contribute to solving the problems that we will face in common during this century, then this …