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.
Apartheid ended 29 years ago. How has South Africa changed?
Rachel Jones- Photos- Ilvy Njiokiktjien. 2019. National Geographic. This article, composed of written narratives as well as professional photographs, attempts to capture post-Apartheid South Africa. It examines the…
Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Government of the Netherlands. 2021. government.nl. Accessed January 27, 2022. https://www.government.nl/topics/international-peace-and-security/post-conflict-reconstruction. This text is the official “Post-Conflict Reconstruction” page of the Government of the Netherlands and offers an…
The parasocial contact hypothesis
Schiappa, Edward, Peter B. Gregg, and Dean E. Hewes. 2005. “The parasocial contact hypothesis.” Communication monographs 72, no. 1: 92-115. This paper introduces the concept of parasocial contact,…
An embodied everyday peace in the midst of violence
Helen Berents (2015) Peacebuilding, 3:2, 1-14 This text examines the stories of marginalised young people in Colombia who are oftentimes excluded from the very discussions of violence and reconciliation that most affect them….
The nature of prejudice
Allport, Gordon Willard, Kenneth Clark, and Thomas Pettigrew. 1954. This text, Gordon Allport’s “The Nature of Prejudice”, forms the bedrock of intergroup contact theory. The book introduces the…
Societies Within Peace Systems Avoid War and Build Positive Intergroup Relationships
Fry, Douglas P., Geneviève Souillac, Larry Liebovitch, et al. 2021. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 8, no. 1: 1-9. Fry, Souillac, Liebovitch et al. focus on using a scientific…
Nation, narration, unification? The politics of history teaching after the Rwandan genocide
Buckley-Zistel, Susanne. 2009. Journal of Genocide Research 11, no. 1: 31-53. This paper illustrates how history is used in order to build peace, focusing on the Rwandan Genocide as…
Peace history: An introduction
Van den Dungen, Peter, and Lawrence S. Wittner. 2003. Journal of Peace Research 40, no. 4: 363-375. This piece provides an introduction to Peace Studies within History, emphasising the…
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