*Correspondence to Author: Dr Kingsley Okoro N. Department of Philosophy and Religion, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Abakaliki-Nigeria How to cite this article: Kingsley Okoro N. Oriental Tradi- tions [Taoism]: A Critical Option for Peace Building Initiative in the Con- temporary Society. International Journal of Social Research, 2017; 1:4. eSciPub LLC, Houston, TX USA. Website: http://escipub.com/ Kingsley Okoro N., IJSR, 2017; 1:4 International Journal of Social Research (IJSR) Review Article IJSR (2017) Vol. 1, Issue 01 Oriental Traditions [Taoism]: A Critical Option for Peace Building Initiative in the Contemporary Society The 21 st century seems to have been eclipsed by conlict, which makes people presume conlict as necessary part of the society resulting to emphasize on peace education. This paper having taken a critical study on various peace building models of peace education observes that these models as good us they may be have not addressed the root of conlicts in the modern society. However, the researcher being interested in finding a peace building model that will address this gap spotlights on Taoism as having the potential to ofering the world their peace-dream. This tradition anchors on the principles of Tao, Yin-yang and Wu-wei. Basic to the trio concepts are the idea of pluralism, non-interfer- ence, and non-action. This paper in adopting historical and so- ciological methods of investigations concludes that if Taoist tra- dition is adopted as a peace building model, the desired peace shall soon become a reality. Keywords: Critical Option, Oriental Traditions. Peace Initiative, Taoism Dr Kingsley Okoro N. Department of Philosophy and Religion, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Abakaliki-Nigeria ABSTRACT Http://escipub.com/international-journal-of-social-research/ 0001