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.
Practicing the Arts of Peace
Crowley, John. Conjunctions no. 46 (2006): 213-230. This article is a personal essay on the power of storytelling in the face of violence, conflict, and grief. Author John…
Surfing the Other: Ideology on the Beach
Rutsky, R. L. Film Quarterly 52, no. 4 (Summer 1999): 12-23. This article interprets the “beach party films” of the late 1950s and early 1960s as rebellions against…
Comedy and Tragedy as Two Sides of the Same Coin: Reversal and Incongruity as Sources of Insight
Dadlez, Eva and Lüthi, Daniel. The Journal of Aesthetic Education 52, no. 2 (Summer 2018): 81-94. This article uses literary theory to argue that comedy in fiction can…
Singing Out of Pain: Protest Songs and Social Mobilization
Payerhim, Marek. The Polish Review 57, no. 1 (2012): 5-31. This article provides a fascinating history of protest songs and their connection to political opposition in Poland in…
Music Videos as Protest Communication: The Gezi Park Protest on YouTube
Jenzen, Olu, et al. In The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication, edited by Aidan McGarry et al., 211-232. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. This article…
What Does Peace Literature Do? An Introduction to the Genre and its Criticism
Adolf, Antony. Peace Research 42, no. 1 / 2 (2010): 9-21. This brief introduction to peace literature explains the main tenets and concepts used in the burgeoning field….
Comedy and War
Maddocks, Melvin. The Sewanee Review 112, no. 1 (Winter 2004): 22-34. This article examines the relationship between comedy and war, seeking to understand why comedy is used so…
Horror Movies With Mom
Chaney, Michael. Prairie Schooner 90, no. 3 (Fall 2016): 101-110. This article is a personal essay examining the author’s relationship with his mother via the horror films they…
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