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.
A Century of Disorder and Transformation—Scotland 1550-1650
Dunnigan, Sara, and Elizabeth Ewan. Renaissance and Reformation 30, no. 4 (2006): 3–12. This chapter serves as an introduction to ”Scotland 1550-1650”, a general book on Early Modern…
‘A Somewhat Too Cruel Vengeance Was Taken for the Blood of the Slain’: Royal Punishment of Rebels, Traitors, and Political Enemies in Medieval Scotland, C.1100–C. 1250
MacInnes, Iain A. In Medieval and Early Modern Adultery, Betrayal, and Shame, edited by Larissa Tracy. Brill, 2019. MacInnes dives into the aftermath of Anglo-Scottish war, a period…
Formulaic FriÞuwebban: Reexamining Peace-Weaving in the Light of Old English Poetics
Cavell, Megan. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 114, no. 3 (2015): 355–72. This article studies the use of the word ‘FriÞuwebban’ in Old English poetics, which…
The Normality of Peace
Melko, Matthew. Peace Research 28, no. 2 (1996): 49–54. In this article, Melko engages with the statement ‘peace is normal, war is exceptional’ in an attempt to prove…
‘Once Upon a Time’ by Nadine Gordimer: A Fairy Tale for Peace
Rizzardi, B. (2019). Le Simplegadi, (19), pp.43–52. The article is an analysis of “Once upon a Time: a Fairy Tale of Suburban Life” by Nadine Gordimer as a…
Fairy Tales in War and Conflict: The Role of Early Narratives in Mass Psychology of Political Violence
Moskalenko, Sophia. 2023. Peace Review, February, 1–10. The article discusses how cultural differences expressed in fairy tale narratives are able to illustrate different cultural groups’ behaviour in high-stress…
Review of Recoding the Ethics of War in Grimms’ Fairy Tales
Simpson, Pierce Anne. 2011. In Enlightened War German Theories and Cultures of Warfare from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz, edited by E Krimmer and P A Simpson, 151–72. Boydell…
The Global System: Conditions for Peace, Stability, and Social Justice
Harman, Willis W. IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine 1, no. 8 (1986): 2–6. https://doi.org/10.1109/maes.1986.5005174. Harman discusses the idea that the achievement of peace, stability and social justice requires…
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