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.
Designing AI for Conflict Prevention and Peace-Building
Alliance for Peacebuilding. (2023). Designing AI for Conflict Prevention & Peacebuilding — Alliance for Peacebuilding. Available at: https://www.allianceforpeacebuilding.org/afp-publications/designing-ai. This paper explores the ethical implications and possibilities of artificial…
Visualising World Peace with GPT-4
Dennis Niggl (2024). Visualizing World Peace with ChatGPT-4 – Towards AI. Towards AI. Available at: https://towardsai.net/p/machine-learning/visualizing-world-peace-with-chatgpt-4. This mini webpage-based workshop demonstrates the cutting-edge application of GPT-4, an artificial intelligence…
Adaptive Peace-building
de Coning, C. (2018). Adaptive peacebuilding. International Affairs, 94(2), pp.301–317. doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iix251. The idea of Adaptive Peacebuilding is explored by Chatham House in this paper. This is an approach…
No Peace without Social Justice
In this blog, student Anna Pilgrim discusses some of the items she has added to The Visualising Peace Library and the learning journey she has been on from…
The Phenomenon of Enforced Disappearances in Transition to Peace
Martínez, Elisenda Calvet . “The Phenomenon of Enforced Disappearances in Transitions to Peace.” Peace in Progress Magazine. International Catalan Institute for Peace, May 2020. https://www.icip.cat/perlapau/en/article/the-phenomenon-of-enforced-disappearances-in-transitions-to-peace/. Elisenda Calvet Martínez’s…
Memory of Violence and Drama in Peru: The Experience of the Truth Commission and Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani – Violence and Dehumanization
Febres, Salomon Lerner . “Memory of Violence and Drama in Peru: The Experience of the Truth Commission and Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani – Violence and Dehumanization.” International Journal of…
How do we talk about truth in South Africa?
Destrooper, Tine, host. “How do we talk about truth in South Africa?” Justice Visions (podcast).2021. https://justicevisions.org/podcast/how-do-we-talk-about-truth-in-south-africa/. In this podcast episode, Tine Destrooper discusses truth and truth-seeking in the…
Argentinian Transitional Justice Process: Women Behind.
Zavala Guillen, Anna. L. “Argentinian Transitional Justice Process: Women Behind.” Journal of Peace, Conflict & Development, no. 20 (2013). https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/112802/. Trigger Warning: This article and summary discusses sensitive…
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