[2] In a 1990 interview with Melody Maker, Adamson described "Peace in Our Time" as a "very Sixties feel protest song, naive but I did it anyway.

"[3] He added in an interview with Sounds, "I do feel music can be more than a three-minute adrenaline rush, but there's a great danger in viewing a song with too much weight.

He considered it to be "more like the Big Country of old, if only because of the martial drum beat", but felt the song "is barely equal to its subject matter" and concluded that it was "sure to sound better in concert".

King of The Pittsburgh Press noted the song's "anthemic chorus" and described it as "catchy as the cold going around this newsroom".

[11] Brett Milano of The Boston Globe considered the song a "chunky rocker" which "recall[s] better days".