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.
Human Nature and the Potential for Peace
Peace is a concept that many feel familiar with – and yet clear-cut definitions are hard to pin down. Our research has shown that peace gets visualised and…
Timeline of Peace in the Medieval Period
Throughout 2022 and 2023, a team of undergraduate students at the University of St Andrews have been working on a ‘Vertically Integrated Project‘ called ‘Visualising Peace‘. Directed by…
Peace in Post-Conflict Societies: conflict and intergroup contact theory
In this presentation, Visualising Peace student Harris Siderfin discusses his research into intergroup conflict and social identity theory, particularly in post-conflict societies. Drawing on scholarship from Psychology and…
Learning Journeys text
Please join us in our learning journey! Below you will find a series of reflective blogs and presentations by different members of the Visualising Peace team. In sharing…
Civil War Legacies in Sri Lanka
In this presentation, Visualising Peace student Tao Yazaki discusses her research on the ongoing barriers to peacebuilding in the aftermath of civil conflict in Sri Lanka. She analyses…
Fairy Tales for Peace
In the presentation below, Visualising Peace student Kim Wahnke discusses the research she has been doing into fairytales as a world-building form of storytelling, which influence child and…
Observing conflict, building peace
In this presentation, Visualising Peace student Robert Rayner shares some of the research he has been doing into neutrality and observation as productive methodologies for peacebuilding. He discusses…
Learning about conflict and negotiations through computer simulations: The case of PeaceMaker
Cuhadar, E., & Kampf, R. (2014). International Studies Perspectives, 15(4), 509-524. This article introduces the videogame PeaceMaker which has been used in addressing the Israeli-Palestine conflict. In the…
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