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.
Peacebuilding and reconciliation through storytelling in Northern Ireland and the border counties of the Republic of Ireland
Maiangwa, Benjamin, and Sean Byrne. Storytelling, Self, Society 11, no. 1 (2015): 85-110. The article begins by setting out the context of Northern Ireland following the Good Friday Agreement,…
Conflict and sacred space in Reformation-era Scotland
Graham, Michael F. Albion 33, no. 3 (2001): 371-387. This article discusses efforts on the part of the Reformation-era Church of Scotland to act as a peacemaker within…
Cutting Into Concepts of ‘Reflectionist’ Cinema? The Saw Franchise and Puzzles of Post-9/11 Horror
Hills, Matt. In Horror After 9/11: World of Fear, Cinema of Terror, edited by Aviva Briefel and Sam J. Miller, 107-123. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2011….
Building for Hope: Towards an Architecture of Belonging
al-Sabouni, Marwa. London: Thames and Hudson, 2021. Building for Hope is Syrian architect Marwa al-Sabouni’s sequel to The Battle for Home, which examines how architecture and urban planning…
The Media City: Media, Architecture and Urban Space
McQuire, Scott. SAGE Publications, 2008. Google Books. This book argues that spatial and temporal experiences of urban life have been fundamentally changed by the advent of digital media,…
Spaces for Consumption
Miles, Steven. SAGE Publications, 2010. VLeBooks. This book theorizes that a post-industrial transformation is underway in which the citizen’s relationship to the contemporary city is being redefined by…
The Impact of COVID-19 on Public Space: An Early Review of the Emerging Questions – Design, Perceptions and Inequities
Jordi Honey-Rosés et al., Cities & Health 5, sup1, (2021): S263-S279. Written at the beginning of the pandemic, this article presents a framework of questions to guide future…
The Concept of Place and Sense of Place in Architectural Studies
Najafi, Mina, and Mustafa Kamal Bin Mohd Shariff. International Scholarly and Scientific Research & Innovation 5, no. 8 (2011): 1054-1060. This article provides an interdisciplinary literature review of…
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