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.
Frank Herbert’s prescience: Dune and the modern world
Senior, William A. 2006. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 17, no. 4: 317-321. An introduction to a journal, this paper analyzes Frank Herbert’s Dune as an allegory…
Space Science in China: A Historical Perspective on Chinese Policy 1957–2020 and Policy Implication
Zhihui, Zhang. 2021. In Space Policy 58: 1-14. This journal is a dense space scientific journal about China’s development of technologies and satellites. In addition to the scientific…
In Cyberwar, There are No Rules
Wheeler, Tarah. 2018. In Foreign Policy 230: 34-41. This article provides an interesting approach to cybersecurity. It is clear that cybersecurity, like peace, is mundane, subtle, and at its best…
Securitization and desecuritization
Wæver, Ole. 1995. In On Security, edited by Ronnie D. Lipschutz, 46-87. 1st edition. New York: Columbia University Press. An interesting chapter that establishes the groundwork for one other source in…
China’s Space Program: A 2021 Perspective
The State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China. 2022. This White Paper introduces China’s launch of its new Space Program: envisioning the future to come…
Peace, Security and Prosperity in the New World Order
Suresh, R. 2020. In Peace Studies Journal 14 (1): 55-64. This article aligns with a conventional IR perception of peace. Peace exists in democratic states where communication, transparency, and competitive…
China as a Narrative Challenge for NATO Member States
Šebok, Filip, and Turcsányi, Richard Q. 2021. In Riga: NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence. This report offers an insight into the practical implications of narratives promoted by states…
Towards Rule of Law in the Digital Environment
Raso, Filippo, and Mēkone, Vineta. 2019. In Riga: NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence. This report underlines the scholarly work from Harriet Moynihan (2021) about International Law in cyberspace. In…
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