An-Other4 Reading of Peace Construction in ELT

Someone recently suggested to me: “war is more profitable than peace” (J. Rodríguez, personalcommunication, October 24th, 2017). This prompted my consideration of the idea that peaceconstruction in multiple settings could entail purposes other than the taken-for-granted and literalones (Aldana, in press). In this reflective article, within the journal’s language and conflict theme,I will discuss discourses related to the handling of peace construction in order to examine itstransformation in governmental, academic and media documents up to 2019. Documentscontaining the word peace in various contexts were selected, and as such the period varied. Thework is approached from my position as a mixed-race educator and researcher with a decolonialand critical epistemological perspective. This qualitative exploratory study approaches peaceconstruction in ELT from a field of methodological uncertainties and a creative toolbox. Bothhistoricizing and critical discourse analysis resources are employed in an inclusionary manner toachieve the eventualisation (Restrepo, 2008) of multiple ways of understanding and referring tothe construction of peace in ELT. In this sense, the role of language appears as an underlyingstarting point. The results discuss the discourse about pacification for progress in ELT as adiscursive event with different universal and market interests. It constitutes an alternative readingof peace construction in ELT as linked to seemingly disperse discursive events mediated bylanguage in real documents.