Murad Idris is an associate professor of political theory at the University of Michigan. His first book, War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought (Oxford U Press, 2019), won three best book awards. It examines idealizations of “peace” across canonical works of ancient and modern political thought, from Plato to Immanuel Kant and Sayyid Qutb. Murad Idris argues that the dominant, moralized ideal of peace sanitizes violence, reinscribes global hierarchy, and facilitates hostility. He is also co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory (2020), which compiles articles to establish comparative political theory’s guiding principles and future direction. Today’s event will be a conversation about War for Peace.