ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the relations between peace, violence and improvisation. A shortcoming of the present hegemonic peace education as a practice, as an ideology, and as a field of academic research is the missing elaboration of relations between peace and violence; peace and metaphysical violence; peace and structural violence; peace and counter-violence; peace and power; peace and revolt; peace and defiance; peace and insubordination; and peace and passive disobedience. Peace education that challenges the fruits of normalizing education should challenge both the quest of totalizing homogeneity and the dogmatic quest for difference as alternatives which within the framework of peace education pave the path for the home-returning self-forgetfulness. A serious philosophical elaboration of peace education cannot be content with socio-historical reconstructions which confirm the conceptual relations between peace and violence, and represent peace as an extreme and highly effective manifestation of violence that hides its origin and telos in the form of lawfulness, security, and peaceful normalization.
