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.
Making Noise and Getting Things Done: Youth Inclusion and Advocacy for Peace: Lessons from Afghanistan, South Sudan and Myanmar
Spalding, Savannah, Odgers-Jewell, Casey-Jade, Payne, Hayley, Mollica, Caitlin, & Berents, Helen. 2021. This report is a conjoined research project about youth’s inclusion in peacebuilding processes in Afghanistan, South…
The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations in Long-Term Human Recovery After Disaster: Reflections from Louisiana Four Years After Hurricane Katrina
Chandra, Anita, and Joie Acosta. 2009. In The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations in Long-Term Human Recovery After Disaster: Reflections From Louisiana Four Years After Hurricane Katrina, 1st ed.,…
Public Trust as a Driver of State-Grassroots NGO Collaboration in China
Farid, May, and Chengcheng Song. Journal of Chinese Political Science 25, no. 4 (1 December 2020): 591–613. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-020-09691-7. Farid and Song’s article discusses how NGOs in China seek…
Conflict, Peacebuilding and NGO Legitimacy: National NGOs in Sri Lanka
Walton, Oliver. Conflict, Security & Development 8, no. 1 (1 April 2008): 133–67. https://doi.org/10.1080/14678800801977146. In this article, Walton uses three case studies of national NGOs in Sri Lanka…
An NGO Training Guide for Peace Corps Volunteers
Peace Corps. Peace Corps Office of Overseas Programming and Training Support: Information Collection and Exchange, 2003. https://files.peacecorps.gov/multimedia /pdf/library/M0070_all.pdf. This resource provides a valuable insight into how NGOs function…
Images of Africa: The UK Report
van der Gaag, Nikki, and Cathy Nash. 1987. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization. http://www.imaging-famine.org/images_africa.htm. This report, a joint effort combining the research of the United Nations’ Food and…
After the Attacks: An Anti-Muslim Backlash
International Crisis Group. After Sri Lanka’s Easter Bombings: Reducing Risks of Future Violence. International Crisis Group, 2019. http://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep31420.7. This source is from a report by the International Crisis…
Remembering Death and Mourning the Loss of Innocence
Perera, Sasanka. In Violence and the burden of memory: Remembrance and Erasure in Sinhala Consciousness, 107-148. New Delhi:Orient Blackswan, 2016. This book chapter is taken from Sasanka Perera’s…
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