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AbstractCan religion bring something distinct, critical and useful to global politics? Or do the voices of religious actors mimic those of secular NGOs when given opportunities to speak truth to power in international diplomacy? This article examines these questions through the lens of nuclear disarmament, considering the role of the Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches at the 2015 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. While faith communities have had a potent role in pushing for nuclear disarmament, the article argues that much more can be done by religious actors to argue that nuclear weapons are a stain on the moral conscience of people of faith.

Introduction / Margaret Groarke and Emily Welty -- Creative discomfort : dilemmas of teaching toward social justice / Joy A. Meeker -- The tyranny of good intentions : critical reflexivity and peace and justice pedagogy / Emily Welty -- Queer possibilities in peace and justice studies / Geoffrey W. Bateman -- Teaching peace : experientially / Edmund Pries -- Simulating reality : a necessary path to critical thinking and perspectives among students / Amal I. Khoury -- Learning justice in the streets : community organizing and peace and justice studies / Margaret Groarke -- If these are our values, then what is our practice? : BackLivesMatter and an American apocalypse / G. Michelle Collins-Sibley -- Storytelling as peace pedagogy in higher education / Amanda Smith Byron -- Toward a Pedagogy of radical love / Karen Lynn Ridd -- Hope and critical thinking : the challenges and opportunities of peace education / Randy Janzen -- The peace professor : decolonial, feminist, and queer futurities / Sara Shroff -- An irritant in the academic body : the place of peace and justice studies in the modern university / Mark Lance -- Conclusion / Emily Welty.

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.