This chapter aims at enhancing an understanding of the interrelationship of language, peace, and conflict resolution by drawing on approaches, insights, and practices from current interdisciplinary sources.

It is organized in three sections, beginning with a discussion of the key concepts in the title and an updated, expanded definition of language. The second section summa­rizes the implications, for applied peace linguistics, of four communication­based approaches to conflict resolution, selected from the literature in English and Portuguese. In the third section, implications are drawn for the preparation of peaceful language users and examples are given for a mnemonically based technique designed to help language users communicate peacefully in socio­political contexts. The chapter concludes with a plea for the integration of lan­guage, peace, and conflict as a new type of communicative right/responsibility to be considered in the peace education of language users.