The 2016 GEM Report, the first of a new 15-year series, shows that education will not deliver its full potential to catapult the world forward unless rates of improvement dramatically shift, and education systems consider sustainable development in the way services are delivered. This Peace: Building sustainable peace and global citizenship through education publication is a select extract from the full 2016 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report: Education for people and planet: Creating sustainable futures for all. It contains two chapters from that full Report – one on peace, political participation and access to justice and the other on education for global citizenship and sustainable development — , along with the associated policy recommendations and a short section of a recent GEM Report Policy Paper Textbooks pave the way to sustainable development.