Growing up and experiencing student life in New York City provided the opportunity to observe financial, political, and international power brokers up close and to interact with and confront them at an early age. From student activist engagements with peace demonstrations and direct actions to eventual academic studies of conflict and long-term peacebuilding in Africa and the Global South, my early adulthood years provided the foundation for future leadership roles in peace education and peace research. The current “low tide” of peace consciousness or unified peace campaigning in the USA is explored in a historical context, looking at global lessons that might help navigate the underdeveloped social change movements located in the otherwise highly developed Global North to more effective future contributions to lasting and positive peace with justice. Taking off from where Galtung’s analysis of the future of the US Empire left off, I provide examples to suggest how Indigenous wisdoms have been and can further be applied to countries still caught in profoundly Eurocentric constructs. In addition, West African connections to the Black liberation movement in the US and Mexican and Indigenous Latin American feminist/autonomous innovations are reviewed for their relevance in addressing universal issues of power in interpersonal and community dynamics.