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.
Western Masculinities in War and Peace
Nye, Robert A. 2007. in The American Historical Review, 112 (2): 417-438. An exploration of the gender roles presents in soldiers throughout the war, examining how the existence…
Killing Bill: Rethinking Feminism and Film Violence
Coulthard, Lisa. 2007. in Interrogating Postfeminism. An exploration of how Tarantino’s Kill Bill, failed to challenge the dominant patriarchal, capitalist ideology using violence carried out by a female…
Film Violence and the Institutionalization of the Cinema
Slocum, David J. 2000. In Social Research, 67 (3): 649-681. An analysis of the political nature of violence in Hollywood as a recurring theme in times of national…
Art, Morality, and the Holocaust: The Aesthetic Riddle of Benigni’s Life Is Beautiful
Casey, Haskins. 2001. in The Journal of Aesthetics and Arts Criticism, 59 (4): 373-384. Haskins explores the multitude of approaches and of interpretations of art by reviewing Beningni’s…
The Roadmap for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies – A Call to Action to Change our World
Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies. 2019. This report highlights challenges, future prospects and opportunities with regards to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 16 for peace, justice, and…
‘Life Is Beautiful’: Reception, Allegory, and Holocaust Laughter
Maurizio, Siano. 1999. in Jewish Social Studies, 5 (3). Viano addresses the debate generated by ‘Life is Beautiful’ regarding what constitutes adequate treatment and respect towards serious topics…
A Quality of Obsession Considerably Further East: The Holocaust in the Cinema of Stanley Kubrick
Cocks, Geoffrey. 2010. in Shofar, 28 (4): 72-85. An investigation into Kubrick’s Middle- European origins, filmmaking style and choice of sources to explore his resent of the Holocaust…
Reflections of the nexus between justice and peacebuilding
McAuliffe, P. 2017. In Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 11 (2): 245-260. This commentary explores the challenges that a liberal conception of peacebuilding poses to the establishment of…
Anti-War Art Care Civil Society Civil war Collaboration Communication Community Conflicts Aftermath Creation of identity Critical peace Culture Diverse Voices Ethnic Conflict Everyday Peace Failed Peace Fascism Future Peace Gaming Grassroots Humanitarianism Human Rights Identity Politics Imperialism Indigenous Studies Inner-Local-Global Peace Inner peace Institutions International Institutions Intersectionality Journalism Justice Language Liberal Peace Literature Mass Media Media Memorialisation Music NGOs Peacebuilding Pedagogy Perpetrators peace Philosophy Policymaking Practice Race Reconciliation Security Studies Social Media Space Sustainable peace Systems thinking Theory Transformation Urban Utopia War Western