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.
Narratives of Peace in South American 20th-century literature
In this presentation, Visualising Peace student Christy Forshaw discusses some theoretical scholarship on ‘peace literature’ and reflects on some examples she has found of this little-studied genre in…
‘Blessed are the peacemakers’: international relations, peace and the way forward
Mathias Katsuya, February 2022 This presentation by student Mathias Katsuya summarizes some recent peace studies literature with an emphasis on the field of International Relations and the dominance…
The Work of EAPPI in Palestine
Pax Palestine Podcast, podcast audio, March 30, 2021. https://paxpalestinepodcast.buzzsprout.com/1727861/8109296-1-the-work-of-the-eappi-in-palestine The podcast episode comes from PAX, a Dutch peacemaking organisation, that, among other things, sends volunteers as Ecumenical Accompaniers…
Breaking the Cycle of Violent Conflict with Johan Galtung
YouTube. University of California, 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16YiLqftppo This speech by Galtung explores his thought, in particular, his theories of reconciliation and positive/negative peace. Galtung problematises unresolved conflict as the…
Comparing Galtung’s Theory of Conflict Resolution with Freud’s Psychoanalytical Theory
Drago, Antonino. CIC. Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación 28 (September 4, 2023): 57–66. This article examines Galtung’s conceptualisation of ‘A-B-C’ conflicts and their similarity to Freud’s psychoanalytic approach….
The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-political Bind
Butler, Judith. London: Verso, 2021. Summary In this book, Butler explores nonviolence as a central, and necessary, tool in the struggle for social equality. Butler emphasises nonviolence as…
Dining with Diplomats, Praying with Gunmen: Experiences of International Conciliation for a New Generation of Peacemakers
Bennett, Anne. London: Quaker Books, 2020. Dining with Diplomats, Praying with Gunmen explores the recent history of Quaker peacebuilding efforts, the principles it is based on and its…
A Global Sense of Place
Massey, Doreen. Marxism Today 38 (1991): 24-29. In this landmark essay, Massey theorizes sense of place as a global phenomenon, challenging the postmodern notion that sense of place…
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