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.
The Tragedy of Peace: Political Meaning in Women Beware Women
Bromham, A. A. 1986. Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 26, no. 2: 309–29. The text focuses on Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women and studies it as a peace play…
An Embodied Everyday Peace in the Midst of Violence
Berents, Helen. 2015. Peacebuilding 3, no. 2: 1-14. This text examines the stories of marginalised young people in Colombia who are often excluded from the very discussions of…
Feminists Building Peace and Reconciliation: Beyond Post-Conflict
Porter, Elisabeth. 2016. Peacebuilding 4, no. 2: 210-225. This article problematises the concept of ‘post-conflict’ through the feminist lens and asserts that, even in the absence of formal…
Care as Everyday Peacebuilding
Vaittinen, Tiina, Amanda Donohoe, Rahel Kunz, Silja Bara Omarsdottir, and Sanam Roohi. 2019. Peacebuilding 7, no. 2: 194-209. This article investigates the notion of care as a power…
From Power-blind Binaries to the Intersectionality of Peace: Connecting Feminism and Critical Peace and Conflict Studies
Kappler, Stefanie, and Nicolas Lemay-Hebert. 2019. Peacebuilding 7, no. 2: 160-177. This academic article argues for an examination into the “intersectionality” of peace as a means of better…
Making Peace, Making Memory: Peacebuilding and Politics of Remembrance at Memorials of Mass Atrocities
Selimovic, Johanna Mannergren. 2013. Peacebuilding 1, no. 3: 334-348. This text discusses the conflict between external and internal actors in memorialising peace by conducting a comparative analysis of…
Mundane Peace and the Politics of Vulnerability: A Nonsolid Feminist Research Agenda
Väyrynen, Tarja. 2019. Peacebuilding 7, no. 2: 146-159. Drawing on feminist peace and conflict studies, this article situates peace in the everyday as an ontological disruption to traditional…
Beyond the Neoliberal Peace: From Conflict Resolution to Social Reconciliation
Lipschutz, Ronnie D. 1998. Social Justice 25, no. 4: 5-19. This article argues that neoliberal peacebuilding focuses far too heavily on military, technical, and economic justice while often…
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