Welcome
Over the past three years, our student team has developed The Visualising Peace Library, an online database of bibliographic references designed to promote cross-disciplinary conversations about peace and peace-building.
The Visualising Peace Library has two core aims. Firstly, it represents a footprint for our various research projects – in particular, our Museum of Peace and the series of reports, blogs, short films and interactive tools published on our project website. Secondly, it is designed not just to reflect the research that we have been doing but also to stimulate and expand future research. In bringing together a wide range of publications, from different disciplines and sectors, we aim to stretch and inspire new habits of studying, learning and thinking about peace.
We are building a growing portfolio of blogs and presentations to complement the resources we have gathered together in the Visualising Peace Library. Students from different disciplines have taken time to highlight particular items or connections and contrasts between items which have struck them as offering fresh insights into peace or peace-building. We hope that you find these stimulating as you explore the wider Library.
You can browse the resources we have gathered together via the Library button below, or click on Learning Journeys to be guided through some of our resources by members of the Visualising Peace team. You can also dip into a ‘pot luck’ selection of our latest library entries at the bottom of this page, and explore some of the themes we cover via the cloud of ‘tags’ on the right.
Understand to prevent: The military contribution to the prevention of violent conflict
MCDC (2014). URL: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7f746540f0b6230268f987/20150430-U2P_Main_Web_B5.pdf This document was made as a collaboration between 23 nations, in response to growing uncertainty about the effectiveness of intervention in post-conflict transformation. The…
The Military Role in Reconciliation
Major Terrence H. Buckeye, School of Advanced Military Studies (2010). URL: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA522693.pdf This extensive monograph investigates how reconciliation is perceived by the military as well as to what…
Is there a role for the military in peacebuilding?
Andrew Rigby, CCTS Review, 32 (2006). URL: https://rc-services-assets.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/review32.pdf Review of background articles for a seminar on the titled topic from three different speakers. The first article considers the…
Better peacekeepers, better protection? Troop quality of United Nations peace operations and violence against civilians
Haass, Felix, and Nadine Ansorg. Journal of Peace Research 55, no. 6 (2018): 742–58. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48567947. Using statistical analyses, the study finds that higher quality and better equipped troops are…
Can Soldiers Build Peace? A Human Science Approach to Understanding Canadian Soldiers’ Experiences in Peace Operations Deployments
Creary, Patlee. Peace Research 50, no. 1 (2018): 27–52. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44873802. This study investigates soldiers’ lived experiences to improve the effectiveness of military peace operations. This study utilises hermeneutic…
Rethinking ‘Peace’ in International Law and Politics From a Queer Feminist Perspective’
Dianne Otto, ‘Rethinking ‘Peace’ in International Law and Politics From a Queer Feminist Perspective’, Feminist Review (2020) In her intersectional paper on peace, Dianne Otto draws from her…
Daryl Davis and why he, as a black man, attends KKK rallies
Daryl Davis, ‘Why I, as a black man, attend KKK rallies’, TEDx Talks, (2017) https://youtu.be/ORp3q1Oaezw?si=CVMxpSFlLdrlR9G8 Considering how peace extends beyond just the context of war by requiring social…
Ecocide is the missing 5th Crime Against Peace
Anja Gauger, Mai Pouye Rabatel-Fernel, Louise Kulbicki, Damien Short and Polly Higgins, ‘Ecocide is the missing 5th Crime Against Peace’, a report for The Ecocide Project, (2012/3) This…
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