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.
Do Violent Protests Work?
Khandaker, Tamara, host. Wait, There’s More (podcast). June 2020. https://open.spotify.com/episode/5pcPQnpnQBaxvjRi679Ozx?si=a8ecae5588af48fb. This podcast, recorded at the height of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests in the USA, discusses the…
Can Protests Save Lives? How ACT UP helped tame the AIDS Crisis
Pettiford, Jordan, host. UnTextbooked (podcast). October 2021. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3IWRSJ0ncakV3YRhSfxLgY?si=44f1cac3cc9d4c11 This podcast explores the grassroots activism which protested the prejudiced lack of reaction of the American Government to the HIV/AIDS…
A Really Good Brown Girl
Dumont, Marilyn. Canada: Brick Books, 1996. Marilyn Dumont’s poetry collection, A Really Good Brown Girl, reads as a journey from internalised shame to pride in Métis identity. The…
Reading Socio-Political and Spatial Dynamics through Graffiti in Conflict-Affect Societies
Vogel, B. et al. Third World Quarterly 41, no. 12 (2020): 1248-68 This article discusses the role of graffiti in conflict-affected areas, and how graffiti can be a…
Failure in a Modern Utopia
Wells, H. G. In A Modern Utopia, 135-174, 1905 This chapter in H.G. Wells’ 1905 book A Modern Utopia discusses the possible failures in a modern Utopia. The…
Role of Utopia for Design of Future Cities: Utopia in Urban Planning Literature
Ganjavie, A. Studies in Literature and Language 5, no. 3 (2012): 10-19 Ganjavie argues against a Utopian model being applied to cities yet states that there is still…
Young People, Situated Learning, and Peace Praxis at The Margins of Everyday Life
Ogunnusi, Michael. 2020. De Montfort University. This thesis thoroughly studies how we approach young people and peace. First, it reviews how peace is generally depicted as the absence…
Peace at the Heart: A Relational Approach to Education in British Schools
Gee, David, Brooks, Ellis, and Cartwright, Isabel. 2022. Quakers in Britain. This report explains the need to teach peace in schools to actively support young people to learn not…
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