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.
What is Mindfulness? A Contemplative Perspective
Young, Shinzen. 2016. in Handbook of Mindfulness in Education: Integrating Theory and Research into Practice edited by Kimberly A. Schonert-Reichl and Robert W. Roeser, 29-47, 1st edition. New…
The Stories
United Nations. United Nations. Accessed November 7, 2022. https://www.un.org/en/exhibits/exhibit/in-their-hands/stories. In the late 20th century, the UN created a new branch focused on gender studies; much of the material…
How the Women of Liberia Fought for Peace and Won
Tavaana, September 17, 2019. https://tavaana.org/en/en/content/how-women-liberia-fought-peace-and-won. – NO LONGER AVAILABLE (CANCELLED) This website tells the tale of how women helped greatly bring about peace in Liberia, involuntarily revolutionising conceptions of…
Probing peace journalism: The discursive construction of blackness within the racial democracy of Colombia
Cortés-Martínez, Carlos A., and Ryan J. Thomas. Journalism 23, no. 1 (2022): 189-206. Peace journalism, the attempt to enquire and write about the world, is a very appealing practice in…
Local Ownership of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda: Restorative and Retributive Effects
Saul, Matthew. International Criminal Law Review 12, no. 3 (2012): 427-456. This article focuses on the court systems in the wake of the Rwandan genocide which targeted the people…
Expanding peace journalism: a new model for analyzing media representations of immigration
Kalfeli, Naya, Christos Frangonikolopoulos, and Antonis Gardikiotis. Journalism23, no. 8 (2022): 1789-1806. This article focuses on the impact of journalism in Greece, both in shaping mindsets and in…
Journalism matters: reporting peace in Cyprus
Şahin, Sanem, and Christiana Karayianni. Media, culture & society42, no. 7-8 (2020): 1360-1376. This article deals simultaneously with journalists’ political and personal orientations and with the challenges that…
An assessment of Rwanda’s gacaca courts
Longman, Timothy. Peace Review 21, no. 3 (2009): 304-312. The justice processes which took place in Rwanda following the 1994 genocide have received much press, mostly positive. But Longman,…
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