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.
In Sri Lanka, a perpetrator state demands non-violence
Vindhya Buthpitiya (2022) The Urban Violence Research Network. Available at: https://urbanviolence.org/perpetrator-state/ (Accessed: March 16, 2023). In this short piece, Buthpitiya is introducing an extremely interesting nuance in Conflict Resolution. There is a tendency…
The most peaceful place on Earth
Kavoori, A. (2016) Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 18(2), pp. 116–118. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708616672674. This piece is a short autoethnographic description of the author – an adopted Cambodian child…
Non-places: An introduction to supermodernity
Auge ́Marc (2009) London: Verso. Marc Augé’s book directly challenges the ways we visualise our reality. He encourages us to think of place and space as something that is…
Three Stories
Luis Borges, Jorge, The New Yorker, Dec 30, 1966 This entry to the library from The New Yorker is a collection of three short works of fiction by…
The solitude of Latin America
García Márquez, Gabriel, The Nobel Prize, Dec 8, 1982. This entry to the library contains a translation into English of Gabriel Gárcia Márquez’s acceptance speech for the Nobel…
History, Myth, and Archetype in Borges’s View of Argentina
Britton, R. K. The Modern Language Review 74, no. 3 (1979): 607–16. ‘‘History, Myth and Archetype in Borges’s View of Argentina” is an article written by R. K…
NOVEL TRUTHS: LITERATURE AND TRUTH COMMISSIONS
Gready, Paul. Comparative Literature Studies 46, no. 1 (2009): 156–76. ‘Novel Truths: Literature and Truth Commissions’ is an article that was written by Paul Gready and published by…
How was your trip? Self-care for researchers working and writing on violence
Theidon, Kimberly. 2014. In Drugs, Security and Democracy Program Working Papers on Research Security 2: 1-20. In this article, Kimberly Theidon shines a light on the immense emotional…
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