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 Elders
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (2021) Available at: https://theelders.org/profile/ellen-johnson-sirleaf (Accessed: November 2, 2022) The website provides biographical and cultural context to the life and work of Allen Johnson Sirleaf, the first ever…
The fall and rise of peace treaties
Fazal, Tanisha M. American Journal of International Law 108 (2014): 46-51. This article accounts for the evolution of the practice of peace treaties, which are commonly considered the first…
South Sudan’s 2015 Peace Agreement and Women’s Participation
Sabala, Kizito. African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review 7, no. 1 (2017): 80-93. This article looks at the role of women in peace agreement negotiations, from which they have often…
What are they writing for? Peace research as an impermeable metropole
Ragandang, Primitivo Cabanes. 2022. Peacebuilding 10, no. 3: 265-277. This piece discusses the interactions between academic peace practice and practitioners who work in the field building peace. The…
Taking Love and Care Seriously: An Emergent Research Agenda for Remaking Worlds in the Wake of Violence
Krystalli, Roxani, and Schulz, Philipp. 2022. In International Studies Review 24 (1) In this article, Roxani Krystalli and Philipp Schulz explore the practices of love and care that…
New U.S. Black Cinema
Taylor, Clyde. 1983. in Jump Cut, no. 28, 46-48 The L.A. Rebellion was a group of black UCLA film students from the 1960-80s who focused on creating a…
Making peace in heaven and on earth: religious and legal aspects of the treaty between Ramesses II and Hattušili III
Goelet, Ogden Jr; Levine, Baruch A. 1997. in Boundaries of the Ancient Near Eastern World The Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty is the earliest known surviving peace treaty (thought to be…
The centrality of self in response to humanitarianism: An ethnographic approach to the Global Peace Film Festival
Wahlberg, Katherine. 2015. The Global Peace Film Festival is a yearly festival that aims to inspire peace-building efforts through the engagement of local communities and presentation of peace…
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