These are terrible times. Rule and writ of the powerful, holding sway in the primitive times in particular, have returned with ferocious force. Hope for an alternate future is fast receding, and the peace educators are being ridiculed for drawing unrealistic roadmaps for the future. This essay contests this viewpoint. It argues that the world is in a mess today because those involved in global and local governance don’t listen to the peace educators. It further says that the powerful serve their own interests by practicing the politics of disowning the peace educators, belittling their ideas and refusing to acknowledge their contribution to the transformative process of global and local societies. Pointing out that the Nobel Peace Prize is seldom awarded to peace thinkers and educators, it observes that the governments, civil society organizations, media, parliaments, courts, novelists, poets, painters, movie makers and the museums for peace rarely glorify and celebrate them. In addition, this essay discusses the consequences of disowning the peace educators by the mafia groups—euphemistically called the power elites. It also emphasizes the need for soul searching by the peace educators and play a far more impactful role than before to diminish wars and violence, prevent genocides, and develop rule-based and justice-based global and local societies.