This book treats the roots of peace and sometimes violence found in our languages, parenting styles, gender roles, and spiritual practices. It is startling to read about the very many topics, organizations, and places in which this Australian author, Marty Branagan, finds consideration, and practices of peace as well as the opposite of peace such as Hitler and Stalin and their societies. This is a valuable book because it surveys where there is peace and ways in which it is cultivated, for example the Hiroshima Peace Park and the country of Bhutan with its Gross National Happiness index. Branagan shows other cultural examples that embody peace such as Mahatma Gandhi and ahimsa (non-harming) practice, the cellist of Sarajevo playing in the midst of a war, and the Australian aboriginal film Ten Canoes from the Northern Territories. From the music world he has examples from the Beatles and Bob Dylan with their music of peace plus the national anthem of New Zealand in English and the aboriginal Māori languages. As for painting, he offers Picasso’s Guernica as a major anti-war painting. There are many more avenues such as films that lead to peace, or its opposite. As individual teachers of peace, the author mentions the renowned Vietnamese monk and Buddhist leader Thich Nhat Hanh teaching social justice and peace. Elsewhere the importance of meditation and mindfulness is mentioned as a means to individual peace. Sister Joan Chittister of the Catholic Benedictine order writes about how war is unacceptable as a part of a difficult lifestyle. One can count at least 37 more ways through the book where one can realize the important work of peace.