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.
Preventing Violent Extremism in Kenya through Value Complexity: Assessment of Being Kenyan Being Muslim
Khan, Anjum, Jose Liht, and Sara Savage. 2014. Journal of Strategic Security 7, no. 3: 1-26. This source is an academic paper published by three researchers from the…
Integrative Complexity Interventions to Prevent and Counter Violent Extremism, 1-7
Nemr, Christina, and Sara Savage. 2019. New York: Global Center on Cooperative Security. This source is a policy brief produced by Christina Nemr and Sara Savage for the…
Promoting Cognitive Complexity Among Violent Extremist Youth in Northern Pakistan
Ayub, Asma, et al. 2022. Journal of Strategic Security 15, no. 1: 14-53. This source is an academic paper published by joint team from the University of Cambridge’s…
A Team Approach: PSYOP and LRA Defection in 2012
Tracy, Jared. Published in November 2020. This source is a historical account produced by Dr. Jared Tracy of the United States Army Special Operations History Office, the organisation…
Psychosocial Interventions, Peacebuilding, and Development in Rwanda
Gitau, Lydia, and Wendy Lambourne. 2013. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development 8, no. 3: 23-36. This source is an article produced by two Australian psychologists specialising in post-conflict…
How are Tamil Villages Reconstructed? Ethnography of Place-Making in Post-war Reconstruction in Sri Lanka
Sanmugeswaran, Pathmanesan. In Rebuilding Communities After Displacement, edited by Mo Hamza, Dilanthi Amaratunga, Richard Haigh, Chamindi Malalgoda, Chathuranganee Jayakody, and Anuradha Senanayake, 269-288. Cham: Springer, 2023. This paper…
Youth Spaces in Haunted Places: Placemaking for Peacebuilding in Theory and Practice
McEvoy-Levy, Siobhan. International Journal of Peace Studies 17, no. 2 (2012): 1–32. Defining public space as a sociospatial construct, this journal article analyzes the relationship between placemaking and…
Implacing Architecture into the Practice of Placemaking
Schneekloth, Lynda H., and Robert G. Shibley. Journal of Architectural Education 53, no. 3 (2000): 130–40. This journal article examines the “expert discourse” of the architecture discipline, arguing…
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