Dr Lynda-ann Blanchard is engaged in teaching, research and advocacy with the Centre for Peace and Conflict (CPACS), University of Sydney, and the Centre for Human Rights Education (CHRE), Curtin University in Australia. Her research focuses on peace studies.

Freya Higgins-Desbiolles is a Senior Lecturer with the Department of Tourism of the University of Otago and the School of Management of the University of South Australia. She co-created Australia's first postgraduate course on peace through tourism and has researched extensively on this topic.

Introduction: Peace Matters, Tourism Matters Part One: Peace Matters To Tourism (Issues) 1. A Pedagogy of Peace: The Tourism Potential 2. Peace (Tourism) as Critical Ecological Democracy 3. Can 'a' Culture of Peace be Exploitative? An Environmental Justice Perspective on Peace Through Tourism 4. Tourism as Politics: The Case of Palestine 5. Tourism Concern: Putting Human Rights Principles into Practice 6. Peace Tourism in Timor Leste: Human Security Through International Citizenship Part Two: Tourism Matters To Peace (Case Studies) 7. Mount Kumgang: A Case of Promoting Peace Through Tourism or a Meaningless Distraction? 8. Of Peoples and Places: Tourism and Zones of Conflict in India 9. The Floating Peace Village: An Experiment in Nonviolence 10. Awareness-Raising and Global Citizenship Through Peace Tourism: Case Studies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 11. An Experiment with Tourism: Educating for Social and Ecological Justice in Australia 12. Religiosity and Volunteer Tourism In Kenya 13. Aboriginal Hostels Limited: A Case of Peace Through Tourism in Australia 14. Peace Activism in Tourism: Two Case Studies (and a few reflections) in Jerusalem 15. Touchdown Tours: The Business of Peace Tourism Part Three: Palestine Matters (To Peace And Tourism) 16. The Struggle for Justice Through Tourism in Palestine? 17. The Pilgrimages for Transformation Project: Shaping a Tourism for Peace with Justice Epilogue: Creating A Peace Tourism Commission of IPRA

Peace through tourism refers to a body of analysis which suggests tourism may contribute to cross-cultural understanding, tolerance and even peace between communities and nations. What has been largely missing to date is a sustained critique of the potential and capacities of tourism to foster global peace.
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