This course uses an eight-day immersive learning experience through the countries of the former Yugoslavia as a laboratory for exploring the potential for language education to be a site of peacebuilding in areas of lingering conflict and nationalism. The course will meet for several weeks in the lead-up to the immersive experience, with readings on the conflict in the region, on language teaching for peacebuilding and reconciliation, and on the role that language and educational policy can play in conflict areas. Over the course of the eight days in the Balkans, we will visit key sites for understanding what transpired in the 1990’s, meet with people who are working in various ways to rebuild the countries that emerged from the conflict, meet language teachers and policy makers in the region, and identify a topic related to peacebuilding that language that students will explore in more detail. After returning from the spring break trip, students will complete a project related to their chosen topic, which will be presented at a fair for the MIIS community.