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.
We were wives, mothers, daughters : participatory filmmaking for peace building by indigenous Papuan women
Cooke, Adeline. 2019. This thesis focuses on the way that participatory videos (PV) can be adapted and used by grassroots communities to have their voices in peacebuilding heard….
Peace in the Ancient World: Concepts and Theories
Raaflaub , Kurt A. 2016. Raaflaub is a scholar who has taken great interest in the area of peace studies and ancient history, with this book being one…
Peace and Reconciliation in the Classical World
Moloney, E.P., & Williams, Michael Stuart. 2017. Previous Classics scholarship studied peace in the subsection of war and not within its own independent school of thought, despite “peace”…
The National Film Board’s Studio D: Feminists Making FILMS FOR PEACE
Taylor, Anita. 1987. Looks at the work and general overview of a particular Women’s Canadian Film studio (Studio D) which makes films for inciting peace. Highlights the importance…
The Spectre of Class: Class Politics, Restorative Justice and the Peace Process in recent Northern Irish Film and Drama
Lehner, Stephanie. 2013. in The Irish Review 47, 100–117. Focuses on the form that peace narratives take in a post-troubles Northern Ireland film. In particular, notes the way…
The Cult of Peace on the Athenian Stage during the Peloponnesian War: From Euripides’s Cresphontes to Aristophanes’s Peace and Beyond
Athanassaki, Lucia. 2018. in Illinois Classical Studies, 43 (1): 1–24 Athanassaki explores Athenian drama’s depiction of the Goddess, Peace, during a period of peace in the Peloponnesian war….
The Glorious Art of Peace: From the Iliad to Iraq
Gittings, John. 2012. A very good resource for both general peace studies and classic peace studies. Gittings’ aim is to re-examine the way peace is perceived and give…
Governance without Government in Somalia Spoilers, State Building, and the Politics of Coping
Menkhaus, Ken. 2006/2007. International Security 31, no. 3: 74-106. This source examines the troubled history of peacebuilding efforts in Somalia, a state that, since the collapse of its…
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