ABSTRACT
Security is not a right-wing issue. A big peace agenda would necessarily address the problems of nuclear weapons, standing armies, failed states, and terrorist bands, and much of big peace scholarship would focus as much on the global north as it does the global south. Big peace researchers and practitioners would need to develop win–win orientations, strategies, and tactics for the major security challenges facing the world, and they would need to bring those security concerns into domestic agendas as well, as these touch on issues of racism, bigotry, and economic inequality. Bring back class analysis. Peace studies grew up in the aftermath of the Cold War, and the last thing its founding practitioners wanted to do was go back to the bad old days of ideological struggle and the shadow of mutually assured destruction. Conflict is global in the same sense it was in the late nineteenth century but more thoroughly so.
