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.
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…
Monitoring Peace Consolidation: United Nations Practitioner’s Guide to Benchmarking
2010. New York: United Nations. This text is an official United Nations publication produced in cooperation with the Norwegian Peacebuilding Center. It outlines the three primary approaches employed…
On Hybrid Politics Orders and Emerging States: State-Formation in the Context of ‘Fragility’
Boege, Volker et al. 2008. In Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation, edited by Volker Boege et al., 2-21. Berlin: Berghof Foundation. This extract from the Dialogue Handbook of…
Maternal Situations: Sectarianism and Civility in a Divided City
McKnight, Martina and Lisa Smyth. 2013. The Sociological Review 61, no. 2: 304-320. This article introduces the concept of “everyday peace”, small-scale individual level interactions and coping mechanisms…
On War and Peace in Cyberspace – Security, Privacy, Jurisdiction
Determann, Lothar and Guttenberg, Karl T. 2014. In Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 41 (4): 875-902. An interesting perspective on how to achieve peace in the cyber realm. In general, peace…
Understanding and Acting Upon a Creeping Crisis
Boin, Arjen, Ekengren, Magnus, and Rhinard, Mark. 2021. In Understanding the Creeping Crisis, edited by Arjen Boin, Magnus Ekengren, Mark Rhinard, 1-17. 1st edition. Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. This chapter delves into how many crises…
The Post-pandemic World: between Constitutionalized and Authoritarian Orders – China’s Narrative-Power Play in the Pandemic Era
Chang, Yung-Yung. 2021. In Journal of Chinese Political Science 26 (1): 27-65. This article delves into the constructions of narratives online in relation to the Covid pandemic. To be more…
A multi-stakeholder foundation for peace in cyberspace
Ciglic, Kaja, and Hering, Jogn. 2022. In Journal of Cyber Policy 6 (3): 360-374. This article offers a critical review of the UN’s and several governments’ incentives to create peace in the cyber…
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