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.
Launching ‘Systemic’ – a Game for Applying Systems Change Thinking to Policy
Policy Lab, and Matteo Menapace. Policy Lab, November 15, 2023. https://openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/2023/11/15/launching-systemic-a-game-for-applying-systems-change-thinking-to-policy/. ‘Systemic’ is one of the so-called ‘serious games’ developed by the UK government-affiliated Policy Lab as experimental…
Towards a New Ecological and Social Sustainability: The Evolution of Planetary Consciousness in the Light of Brain Coherence Research
Montecucco, Nitamo Federico. World Futures 55, no. 2 (2000): 129–36. https://doi.org/10.1080/02604027.2000.9972774. The study presented in this paper starts from the assumption that the state of the global system –…
Peace and Peacebuilding in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien
In this presentation, Visualising Peace student Albert Surinach I Campos discusses some of the research he has been doing on representations of peace and peacebuilding in the works…
Civil War and Peace in Sri Lanka
In this presentation, Visualising Peace student Tao Yazaki discusses some of the research she has been doing on post-conflict transitions in Sri Lanka. Among other topics, she looks…
NGOs and Peacebuilding
In this presentation, Visualising Peace student Samuel Huff discusses some of the scholarship he has been reading on the role played by different NGOs in peacebuilding. He looks…
Neutrality and Principled Impartiality in Peacebuilding
In this presentation, Visualising Peace student Robert Rayner discusses some of the research he has been doing on the different stances that NGOs take in conflict zones and…
Fairy tales for peace
In this presentation, Visualising Peace student Kim Wahnke discusses some of the research she has been doing on storytelling a positive peacebuilding intervention. She looks particularly at the…
Understanding Utopia
In this presentation, Visualising Peace student Jadzia Allright discusses her research into ideas of utopia – as a way of exploring habits of visualising/building future peace. She particularly…
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