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.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and the Making of Japanese Postwar Architecture
Cho, Hyunjung. “Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and the Making of Japanese Postwar Architecture” Journal of Architectural Education 66, no. 1 (September 28, 2012): 72–83. https://doi.org/10.1080/10464883.2012.720915 Cho first highlights the personal…
Understanding the 2020-2021 Tigray Conflict in Ethiopia: Background, Root Causes, and Consequences
Pellet, Philippe. Understanding the 2020-2021 Tigray Conflict in Ethiopia: Background, Root Causes, and Consequences. (Budapest: Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2021). https://real.mtak.hu/132127/1/KE_2021_39_ET_Tigray_Conflict_in_Ethiopia_Pellet_0810.pdf. This policy brief outlines the…
Ethiopian Civil-Military Coordination Guidance
Ethiopian Humanitarian Country Team. Ethiopian Civil-Military Coordination Guidance. (Ethiopia: EHCT and OHCR, 2019). https://reliefweb.int/report/ethiopia/humanitarian-civil-military-coordination-guidance-ethiopia-march-2019. These guidelines for the interactions between civil society and military actors in Ethiopia in…
Reflections from the Experiences of the Humanitarian Reform Officer
Tyler, Dan. Reflections from the Experiences of the Humanitarian Reform Officer. (Geneva: ICVA, 2012). https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/57a08b2a40f0b652dd000b34/ethiopia-lessons.pdf. This piece was written by Dan Tyler, an Officer of the NGOs and…
Operationalising Bottom-Up Learning in International NGOs: Barriers and Alternatives
Power, Grant, Matthew Maury, and Susan Maury. “Operationalising Bottom-Up Learning in International NGOs: Barriers and Alternatives.” Development in Practice 12, nos. 3-4 (2002): 272-284. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0961450220149663. In this article,…
Coordination and Collaboration: an NGO View
MacCormack, Charles F. “Coordination and Collaboration: an NGO View.” In The Pulse of Humanitarian Assistance, edited by Kevin M. Cahill. 2013. (New York: Fordham University Press): 243-262. This…
Foreign Aid, Neocolonialism and Peacebuilding
In this blog, Visualising Peace student Sofia Lobue discusses foreign aid models that are designed to promote peace and security but can also reinforce systems of dependency and…
Queer Rights and Peacebuilding
In this blog, Visualising Peace student Madighan Ryan discusses the importance of including queer voices in peacebuilding at all levels, identifying ‘multipartiality’ as an important principle for all…
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