When you want to effect positive change against structural and systemic problems, where do you begin? In Peace by Peace Lisa Silvestri uses interview-based storytelling to explore the catalytic moments that led ordinary people to address social, political, and economic issues in their communities ranging from the West Bank to West Baltimore. The source of their audacity is practical wisdom, an Ancient Greek virtue that Silvestri revives for twenty-first century application.

Lisa Ellen Silvestri is the author of Friended at the Front: Social Media in the American Warzone and co-editor of The Western Journal of Communication. She is associate teaching professor of communication arts and sciences at Penn State.