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.
Cinema and the Civilizing Process: Rethinking Violence in the World War II Combat Film
Slocum, David J. 2005. in Cinema Journal, 44 (3): 35-63. Using references to the popular World War II depictions up to 2005, Slocum poses alternatives to the portrayal…
“Das Boot” and the German Cinema of Neoliberalism
Baer, Hester. 2012. in The German Quarterly, 85 (1): 18-39. This journal article explores the 1981 West German film by categories (time, transnationalism, gender and sexuality amongst others),…
Jean Renoir’s `La Grande Illusion´
Sesonske, Alexander. 1975. in The Georgia Review, 29 (1): 207-244. This is an analysis of the disagreements over La Grande Illusion’s pacifist nature, looking into the strategies, resources,…
Peace, Justice, and Sustainability
Conca, K. 1994. In The Newsletter of PEGS 4 (1): 1, 4, 6-7. The essay identifies transnational actors as the main drivers of (un)sustainable development and explores how…
PEACE, JUSTICE AND GOVERNANCE IN THE POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK
Brinkman, H-J. 2013. In Journal of Peacebuilding and Development 8 (3): 92-101. This paper outlines the ideational process behind the Millennium Development Goals, the precursors to the UN…
Beyond the Liberal Peace Project: Toward Peace with Justice
van der Linden, H. 2002. In Journal of Social Philosophy 32 (3): 419-430. This article highlights the gaps in the liberal peace project, emphasising the need for a…
Toward Sustainable Peace: A New Research Agenda for Post-Conflict Natural Resource Management
Krampe, F. 2017. In Global Environmental Politics 17 (4): 1–8. The paper provides an overview of environmental peacebuilding and the risks and opportunities that natural resources management implies…
Back to the Future? Confronting the Role(s) of Natural Resources in Armed Conflict Through the Lenses of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
Cusato, E. In International Community Law Review 19 (4-5): 373-400. This article further explores the importance of understanding the role of natural resources in peacebuilding efforts aimed at…
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