A look at the current crises in Europe and the world reveals a diffuse and disturbing picture. For some time now, the impression has been that multiple global crises, such as the escalating environmental crisis, the financial crisis of 2008/09, the Arab Spring of 2011, the migration crisis of 2015 and, more recently, the Covid-19 crisis, are causing distress in world society. This article therefore aims at taking a closer look at the state of democracy and peace in the age of the crisis of neoliberalism and tries to identify perspectives and potential solutions based on the approach of global education. The first chapter investigates the increase of populist politics and nation-state protectionism that threaten democracy; then democratic political implications of the Covid-19 crisis, which revealed disparities within society, will be examined. The following chapter details the ideas of Immanuel Kant's polemic pamphlet Perpetual Peace. That forms the basis for the considerations presented in the final chapter on the potential of the pedagogical approach of global education to overcome the dynamics of the neoliberal crisis and its excesses.