This book is intended for people who feel both called to and daunted by the vocation of peacemaking. It contemplates and seeks to answer the following questions: How do we live out this calling in a world that seeks peace through violence? How do we live out this calling in a society that understands peace as the absence of violence, rather than the presence of justice? How do we live out this calling in a time when the daily news reinforces the perception that peace is truly untenable?