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.
The Century of Climate Migration: Why We Need to Plan for the Great Upheaval
Vince, Gaia. The Guardian , August 18, 2022. This article discusses the role of climate change in creating migration and refugees. The article discusses the challenges that the world…
The Floods are coming: Climate refugees in Bangladesh
Picareta, Lourdes DW , March 19, 2019. This documentary examines the impact of climate change on remote villages in Bangladesh. This is critical to peace studies as it…
Bastardized History: How Inglourious Basterds Breaks Through American Screen Memory
Setka, Stella. Jewish Film & New Media volume 3 no. 2 (Fall 2015), pp. 141-169. This article details how Inglourious Basterds (2009) examines political art and its relationship…
Uses of the End of the World: Apocalypse and Postapocalypse as Narrative Modes
Pitetti, Connor. Science Fiction Studies volume 44, no. 3 (November 2017), pp. 437-454. In this article Connor Pitetti distinguishes between apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic novels in science fiction, with…
Rooting for the Bad Guy: Psychological Perspectives
Keen, Richard, McCoy, Monica L., and Powell, Elizabeth. Studies in Popular Culture volume 34, no. 2 (Spring2012), pp. 129-148. This article examines from a psychological and literary perspective…
Wreckage Upon Wreckage: History, Documentary and the Ruins of Memory
Rabinowitz, Paula. History and Theory volume 32, no. 2 (May 1993), pp. 119-137. In this insightful article, Paula Rabinowitz writes that documentary films ask their audiences to consider…
Fernando Solanas: An Interview
Solanas, Fernando and MacBean, James Roy. Film Quarterly volume 24, no. 1 (Autumn 1970), pp. 37-43. This article is an interview with Argentinian filmmaker Fernando Solanas about documentary…
THE POWER of DISCOURSE and the DISCOURSE of POWER: PURSUING PEACE through DISCOURSE INTERVENTION
Karlberg, Michael. 2005. International Journal of Peace Studies 10 (1): 1–25. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41852070. This article examines ‘discourse intervention’ as a way of changing current modes of interaction with power in…
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