CBC Ideas Week: War and Peace

What does it take to create peace? What ideas and values can knit a society back together – or at least make it possible for enemies to lay down their arms and live side by side? Past peace deals offer badly-needed models for our own time, but the process of making peace is often imperfect. And at worst, peace agreements can cement injustice and make future conflict all but inevitable.

This series, moderated by Ideas host Nahlah Ayed, explores four pivotal attempts to make peace over the last three decades, and asks what we can learn from the best - and worst - thinking of the past. The series culminates in an exploration of what it takes to make peace in the fraught context of the 21st century.

Making Peace in the 21st Century

What can we learn from the successes and failures of the past about how to create a more peaceful world, from Gaza to Ukraine and beyond? What ideas do Indigenous leaders in Canada bring to the work of peace and rebuilding? Nahlah Ayed and guests explore what peacemaking means in our own time, and try to chart a course for the future.