The Peace Education Special Interest Group of AERA had a very successful AERA Annual Meeting in San Diego in April 2009. There were a total of seven sessions, including two paper sessions, two interactive symposia, two roundtable sessions and a business meeting. The program began with an interactive symposium by Irene Zoppi, Brecken Swartz and Jing Lin which discussed alternative paradigms and approaches to peacebuilding from a gender perspective. The panel explored the built-in patriarchal values in the military that glorify war and treat war as the way to peace; and a gender perspective in favor of "feminine" values for expanding and transforming the role of military education was discussed.