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.
The Challenge of Conflict-Affected Cities: Building Peace Through Architecture and Urban Design
Ensari, Elif, Sucuoglu, Gizem, Breivik-Khan, Håvard and Can Sucuoglu. 2016. Paper presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention, Atlanta, USA, March, 2016. ResearchGate. Using the case study…
The Idea of Home: The Architecture of War and Peace
Holdsworth, Pauline, host. IDEAS (podcast). June 16, 2022. This podcast episode provides an introduction to the history and politics of urbicide. Defined as the deliberate “killing” of a…
Social Media Platforms are Failed Cities
Ourednik, André, Mlynář, Jakub, Mutzner, Nico, and Hamed Alavi. Interactions 28, no. 6 (2021): 62–66. Through a comparison of the internet to the typology of the city, this…
Planetary Urbanization and the ‘Right Against the Urbicidal City.’
Lesutis, Gediminas. Urban Geography 42, no. 8 (2021): 1195-121. This article reconceptualizes planetary urbanization, defined as unsustainable growth of the capitalist city, which violates the spatial justice of…
Placemaking and the Future of Cities
Project for Public Spaces (2012) This report is a collaborative effort by the Project for Placemaking and UN-HABITAT to tackle the issues facing public space in the Global…
Among the Ruins
Berman, Michael. New Internationalist (December 1987). In this article, philosopher Marshall Berman discusses urban blight, not from a scholarly perspective, but from a personal one. He reflects on…
Peace Ecology: An Emerging Paradigm in Peace Studies
Kyrou, Christos N. International Journal of Peace Studies 12, no. 1 (2007): 73–92. This article proposes the paradigm of Peace Ecology, a theoretical framework for environmental peacebuilding. Kyrou…
The Real Tragedy of Beth March
Machado, Carmen Maria. The Paris Review, August 29, 2019. This article discusses the character Beth March in Louisa May Alcott’s novel Little Women as well as Alcott’s sister,…
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