Fifty years ago, legendary Jamaican musician Peter Tosh penned a searing line in his iconic track *Equal Rights* that cuts through the empty rhetoric of global politics even today: “Everyone is crying out for peace, yes, None is crying out for justice.” That unflinching warning, which laid bare the hollow nature of peace without equity, serves as the foundation for a urgent argument put forward by Professor C. Justin Robinson, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal of The UWI Five Islands Campus, that the Caribbean must reject manufactured calm and choose lasting justice over short-sighted, false peace.