Join us for a talk with Kevin Kester (Faculty of Education) and Dr. Arathi Sriprakash (Discussant). The role of the university peace lecturer as an agent in framing and objectifying peace (as an object of study and as a discourse of practice) has rarely been examined. Furthermore, the educators’ embodied and institutionalised forms of capital – and their beliefs and social positions in relation to this capital – have not been thoroughly investigated. This talk, therefore, explores how university peace lecturers understand and define the boundaries of peace studies, their reasons for entering this field of work, and the forms of capital they possess that enable them to teach a particular conception of peace – either in continuity with or in disruption of UN norms.