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.
Peacekeeping and Critical Theory
Pugh, Michael. 2004. International Peacekeeping 11, no. 1: 39-58. This text views peace operations through the lens of governance where the distribution of aid and resources is employed…
A Structural Theory of Imperialism
Galtung, Johan. 1971. Journal of Peace Research 8, no. 2: 81-117. Echoing Immanuel Wallerstein’s World Systems Theory, this source conceptualises imperialism as being separated into cores and peripheries,…
The Local, the ‘Indigenous’ and the Limits of Rethinking Peacebuilding
Randazzo, Elisa. 2021. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 15, no. 2: 141-160. This article advocates the study of relationality where interactions and relations between both internal and external…
Reducing intergroup prejudice and conflict using the media: a field experiment in Rwanda
Paluck, E. L. 2009. Journal of personality and social psychology, 96(3), 574. This field study utilises explores the use of para-social contact, the use of communications media to build…
The tragedy of great power politics
Mearsheimer, John J., and Glenn Alterman. 2001. WW Norton & Company. This text by John Mearsheimer is a foundational theoretical work in the field of International Relations and outlines…
Defence In a Competitive Age
Ministry of Defence. 2021. Parliamentary, London: Ministry of Defence. This text is a strategy paper from the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence and offers a defence-centered perspective on…
Three pillars of the liberal peace
Doyle, Michael W. 2005. American political science review 99, no. 3: 463-466. This short journal piece introduces the “Liberal Peace Theory”, the concept of how peace is formed and…
Institutionalizing enemies: The consequences of reifying projection in post-conflict environments
Murer, Jeffrey Stevenson. 2010. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society 15, no. 1: 1-19. This article examines the failings of the Dayton Agreement and how the formalized peace accord has perpuated…
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