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.
Daisaku Ikeda’s Philosophy of Peace, Education Proposals, and Soka Education: Convergences and Divergences in Peace Education
Goulah, Jason, and Olivier Urbain. Journal of Peace Education 10, no. 3 (2013): 303–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/17400201.2013.848072. This article fills a gap in Anglophone literature on peace education, which scarcely explored…
Assembly Places and Elite Collective Identities in Medieval Ireland
FitzPatrick, Elizabeth. Journal of the North Atlantic 801 (April 2015): 52–68. This article covers the concept of regular, public assemblies in the medieval Gaelic tradition and culture. Within…
Sub-Keepers and Constables: The Role of Local Officials in Keeping the Peace in Fourteenth-Century England
Musson, A.J. The English Historical Review 117, no. 470 (2002). This article sets out a medieval, English system of peace-keeping, which worked through a variety of bodies, from…
The Abbe de St. Pierre and Voltaire on Perpetual Peace in Europe
Riley, Patrick. World Affairs 137, no. 3 (1974): 186–94. This article sets out the Abbé de St Pierre’s eighteenth century plan for ‘perpetual peace in Europe’, which Riley…
Bloodfeud, Kindred, and Government in Early Modern Scotland
Wormald, Jenny. Past and Present 87, no. 1 (1980): 54–97. This article is an interesting depiction of the aftermath of Anglo-Scottish conflicts, under the focus of proper retribution…
The People and Public Opinion in the Eleventh-Century Peace Movement
MacKinney, Loren C. Speculum 5, no. 2 (April 1930): 181–206. This article examines the peace committees which began to crop up in eleventh-century France, creating a refreshing depiction…
A Century of Disorder and Transformation—Scotland 1550-1650
Dunnigan, Sara, and Elizabeth Ewan. Renaissance and Reformation 30, no. 4 (2006): 3–12. This chapter serves as an introduction to ”Scotland 1550-1650”, a general book on Early Modern…
‘A Somewhat Too Cruel Vengeance Was Taken for the Blood of the Slain’: Royal Punishment of Rebels, Traitors, and Political Enemies in Medieval Scotland, C.1100–C. 1250
MacInnes, Iain A. In Medieval and Early Modern Adultery, Betrayal, and Shame, edited by Larissa Tracy. Brill, 2019. MacInnes dives into the aftermath of Anglo-Scottish war, a period…
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