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.
Ultraprimitive Pacifists: The Tasaday as a Symbol of Peace
Sponsel, Leslie E. 1990. Anthropology Today 6, no. 1: 3–5. Sponsel writes about the Tasaday peoples, an indigenous group living in the Lake Sebu area in Mindana, Phillipines. He…
Peace in History
Gittings, John. 2016. In: Richmond, Oliver, Sandra Pogodda, and Jasmin Ramovic, eds. ‘The Palgrave Handbook of Disciplinary and Regional Approaches to Peace.’ Springer: 21-31. Gittings examines the theoretical element…
Ekila: Blood, Bodies, and Egalitarian Societies
Lewis, Jerome. 2008. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 14, no. 2 : 297–315. A case study of the Mbendjele people in Northern Congo, and their indigenous belief…
Peace and Women’s Issues in U.S. History
Alonso, Harriet Hyman. 1994. OAH Magazine of History 8, no. 3 : 20–25. Alonso emphasises the question ‘but what about women?’ when looking at political peace-building enterprises, emphasising how…
Anthropology: Implications for Peace
Souillac, G., Fry, D.P. 2016. In: Richmond, O.P., Pogodda, S., Ramović, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Disciplinary and Regional Approaches to Peace. Palgrave Macmillan, London. This chapter…
Feminist Approaches to Peace: Another Step for Peace Studies
Queering the ‘Territorial Peace’? Queer Theory Conversing With Mainstream International Relations
Sjoberg, Laura. (2014) International Studies Review 16, no. 4 This short article engages with the possible dialogue between queer theory and mainstream International Relations (IR) theory. Sjoberg seeks to…
Security! What Do You Mean?: From Concept to Thick Signifier
Huysmans, Jef. (June 1998) European Journal of International Relations 4, no. 2 This article analyses the nexus between theory and practical action. More specifically, Huysmans uses the term “thick…
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