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.
Can securitization theory be saved from itself? A decolonial and feminist intervention
Gomes, Mariana Selister, and Marques, Renata Rodrigues. 2021. In Security Dialogue 52: 78-87. This article echoes a larger scholarly debate about The Copenhagen School – also known as the securitization theory….
Everyday Peace: Bottom-Up and Local Agency in Conflict-Affected Societies
Mac Ginty, Roger. 2014. Security Dialogue 45, no.6: 548-561. This text explores the concept of an everyday peace, the routinized practices and interactions that bridge gaps in divided…
Indigenous Peace-Making Versus the Liberal Peace
Mac Ginty, Roger. 2008. Cooperation and Conflict 43, no. 2: 139-159. This article further develops the concept of “local ownership” in international peacebuilding efforts and assesses the feasibility…
Hybrid Peace: The Interaction Between Top-Down and Bottom-Up Peace
Mac Ginty, Roger. 2010. Security Dialogue 41, no. 4: 391-412. This article breaks down the creation of hybrid peace into four primary factors: the compliance powers possessed by…
A Post-Liberal Peace: Eirenism and the Everyday
Richmond, Oliver P. 2009. Review of International Studies 35, no. 3: 557-580. This text offers a largely-theoretical conceptualization of “post-liberal peace”, a break from the dominant theory of…
International Peacebuilding and the ‘Mission Civilisatrice’
Paris, Roland. 2002. Review of International Studies 28, no. 4: 637-656. This text applies a post-colonial lens to the dominance of internationally-sponsored liberal peacebuilding efforts in the Global…
Understandings of Local Ownership
Von Billerbeck, Sarah B K. 2016. In Whose Peace? Local Ownership and United Nations Peacekeeping, edited by Sarah B K von Billerbeck, 48-77. Oxford: Oxford University Press. This…
Liberal Peace and the Dialogue of the Deaf in Afghanistan
Tadjbakhsh, Shahrbanou. 2011. In Rethinking the Liberal Peace: External Models and Local Alternatives, edited by Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh, 206-220. Oxon: Routledge. This text analyzes the shortfalls of the international…
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