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.
Narratives of Cooperative Ecological Science: The Case of Israel and Jordan
Kosel, S., Teff-Seker, Y., Orenstein, D. E., Groner, E. 2020. In Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology 26 (3): 257–269. The article outlines how cooperation in cross-border…
‘All Quiet on the Western Front’: A Phenomenological Investigation of War
Tighe, Joseph A. 2004. in Critical Survey, 16 (3): 48-61. A study of Merleau-Ponty89’s phenomenology in his novel ‘All Quiet on the Western Front as a realistic and…
Media and Legacies of War: Responses to Global Film Violence in Conflict Zones
Igreja, Victor M. F. 2015. in Current Anthropology, 56 (5): 678- 700. This article examines the phenomenon of informal video houses showing action films with scenes of violence…
Elsewhere: In Love and War: The Duplicitous Women of New War Cinema
Qureshi, Bilal. 2018. in Film Quarterly, 72 (2): 67-70. The incorporation of previously marginalized segments of the population into film has allowed for the development of cinema as…
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…
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