Peter Lucas

Peter Lucas teaches in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University. His teaching focuses on peace education and international studies in human rights. As a scholar, Lucas has studied school violence and school safety in New York, peace education in the schools, the role of photography and film in human rights witnessing, and violence and public safety in Rio de Janeiro. He is currently writing a book entitled The Mural of Pain: The Visual Representation of Violence and Peace in the Brazilian Human Rights Movement.