Scripting Peace

My relationship to peace and “visualising peace” has changed dramatically since I began participating in the Visualising Peace project. When I began work with the project, it was with a tenuous grasp of global politics and an intense affection for the novels of Kurt Vonnegut. Now, a little over a year later, I’ve found my niche in defining “visualising peace” as an analytical study of war narratives, both literary and cinematic, and searching for the much more elusive “peace narrative.” I continue to learn more about the peacebuilding process and its many facets both from my own findings and the research I see my peers take part in. I used that research to create three short films, entitled Hyacinths, No Love Lost, and A Peaceful Image, which I hope will shed light on the process of peacebuilding, its internal and external dimensions, and the ways in which peacebuilding complicates events in our lives both ordinary and extraordinary.