Because increased technology too often is an inappropriate means to deal with contemporary social and educational needs, there is a need for academics to stress ethical and ecological values to students who may otherwise expect to seek a "quick fix" for societal ills through "high tech" solutions without sensitivity to the longer range implications and costs for other persons living on the same planet now and in the future. Many departments of communication are positioned to offer a series of courses that could serve as a core for peace studies. For example, courses in intrapersonal, interpersonal, and public communication can be joined with a course in conflict management, audience analysis, and communication ethics to form such a core. Courses outside the Department, in areas such as negotiation, management, and psychology, could extend the minor to a viable major. Finally, Western higher educators must make sharing wisdom as well as technology with developing nations a high priority, requiring a redirection in the emphasis upon bigger (quantitatively) being more important to society than quality of life. Peace, based upon justice for all, is the ultimate goal, and a values-added educational effort is the means to improve curriculum. (Fifteen references are attached.) (MM)