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.
Refreshed Grounds for a Feminist Peace Studies
Kvasnicka, L. and Finnegan, A.C. 2020. Peace Change, 45: pp. 426-454. This article examines the notion of peace studies as a discipline that is dominated by female scholars…
‘Murphy’ and Peace
Wallace, Jeff. 2015. Twentieth Century Literature 61, no. 3: 352–72. This text investigates Samuel Beckett’s novel Murphy as a potentially pacifist text. Published in 1938, Murphy is an avant-garde…
Just War Tradition and the Restraint of War: A Moral and Historical Inquiry
Johnson, James Turner. 2014. Princeton: Princeton University Press. This book is a sequel to Johnson’s Ideology, Reason, and the Limitation of War and aims to investigate how the West…
EDUCATION FOR PEACE AND THE READING OF LITERATURE
Gordon, Haim. 1990. The Centennial Review 34, no. 4: 577–86. This text explores the personal experiences of its author, Haim Gordon, as an educator, recalling an instance where he…
The (M)Other Battle of World War One: The Maternal Politics of Pacifism in Rose Macaulay’s Non-Combatants and Others
Boxwell, D. A. 1993. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 12, no. 1: 85–101. The text begins by relating the concept of motherhood to war, and, through references to…
Imagining Peace: A History of Early English Pacifist Ideas
Lowe, Ben, 1997. 1340–1560. Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press. This book explores the growth and development of the pacifist movement in historical English foreign policy, examining how foundational concepts…
The Tragedy of Peace: Political Meaning in Women Beware Women
Bromham, A. A. 1986. Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 26, no. 2: 309–29. The text focuses on Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women and studies it as a peace play…
An Embodied Everyday Peace in the Midst of Violence
Berents, Helen. 2015. Peacebuilding 3, no. 2: 1-14. This text examines the stories of marginalised young people in Colombia who are often excluded from the very discussions of…
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