Abstract
"The past has to be taken seriously: it is too serious to be left to historians." Peace scholar Johan Galtung wrote that because he understood how intellectuals in the West "are trained to abstain from criticism, constructivism, and action unless they happen to be in certified applied sciences." For historians, this means writing as if unbiased and disinterested. There is no socio-political agenda allowed. Stay neutral (on a moving train). Peace Studies, though, as conceived by Galtung, is "an applied social science, with an explicit value orientation" — against violence. "Critical Peace Studies takes explicit stands."Peace scholars get to care. A Peace historian, then, is one who writes with the transparent intent of reducing violence. In that sense, a historian can be a Peace worker, understanding that an immense Peace is made of lots of little Peaces, including little Peaces of culture. [...].