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.
Waterloo, Napoleon, and the Vision of Peace in Louisa Stuart Costello’s ‘The Maid of the Cyprus Isle.’
Ruppert, Timothy. 2012. Studies in Romanticism 51, no. 4: 555–78. This text examines the poetry of Louisa Stuart Costello, a Romantic, Anglo-Irish poet, whose work, ‘The Maid of…
‘Je Hé Guerre, Point Ne La Doy Prisier’: Peace and the Emotions of War in the Prison Poetry of Charles d’Orléans
Downes, S. 2015. Emotions and War: Medieval to Romantic Literature, edited by S. Downes, et al., London, Palgrave Macmillan UK. This text investigates how the poetry of…
Pacifism and English Literature
White, R.S., 2008. London: Palgrave Macmillan. The book recognizes that Peace Studies is an interdisciplinary field and seeks to highlight the role of English and Literature within that…
Shakespeare’s Use of War and Peace
Jorgensen, Paul A. 1953. Huntington Library Quarterly 16, no. 4: 319–52. This article asserts that Shakespeare should be investigated as a treatise on how Renaissance England visualized war…
One Woman’s Way to Peace: The Development of Vera Brittain’s Pacifism
Mellown, Muriel. 1985. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 8, no. 2: 1–6. This text focuses on the life and work of British author Vera Brittain who lived…
The Sword, the Scythe, and the ‘Arts of Peace’ in Dryden’s ‘Georgics.’
Schoenberger, Melissa. 2014. Translation and Literature 23, no. 1: 23–41. This work analyzes the usage of the word ‘peace’ in Dryden’s translation of Virgil’s ‘Georgics’ and explores the notion…
The Racial Silence within Peace Studies
Azarmandi, Mahdis. 2018. Peace Review, 30, no. 1: 69-77. This text investigates how institutional structures of power that enable the outbreak of war and violence are inextricably tied…
Peace Studies: A Proposal
Lerner, Laurence. 1995. New Literary History 26, no. 3: 641–65. This text analyzes the notion that Peace Studies should be viewed as a new critical perspective through which literature…
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