“Ultimately, opportunities for the promotion of peace and more equitable practices are closer than many of us can imagine; from teaching our own students to resolve conflict in constructive and empowering ways, to explicitly teaching peace in the world, to advocating more research on language and peace and the implementation of the findings of such research efforts, we must start to promote and reinforce what works rather than exclusively denounce what does not. There are those who believe that a state of conflict is a natural part of human experience, a reason why peace is so difficult to uphold. However, whether peace is an idyllic view of a world we cannot go back to, that pre-Babel state of harmony and uni-language, or a more complex combination of alliances and compromises, it is our duty to defend it. The consequences of not having it are too hard to bear”
(Friedrich, 2007, p. 82).

It is a real pleasure to share with all viewers the ideas that undergraduate students of linguistics and sociolinguistics have shaped around the topic of Peace Linguistics.

Thanks to them for being involved!​