Month: March 2023

Mathias is an undergraduate student in the University’s School of International Relations, and has been a member of the Visualising Peace team since Spring 2022.   His research in the Visualising Peace project has been into psychology and peacebuilding, particularly in post-conflict zones. In this presentation, Mathias reflects on his research into psychology theory, international relations, … Read more

I have been part of this research project since it started in January 2022, and the magnitude of my learning journey is difficult to articulate. Initially, I was interested in how peace is visualised and narrated in realms of cyber- and outer space. Today, I focus on inner peace. Echoing many of my peers’ views, … Read more

Language is a fundamental building block for peacebuilding, peaceful communication, and coexistence. Language itself is often also a political tool, adding another layer of complexity to an already dense and difficult process such as peacebuilding. But the politics, aesthetics, and inherent value of language can aid in the peacebuilding process just as much as they … Read more

Several members of the Visualising Peace team have been exploring the complex relationships that have evolved over time between different religious movements and belief systems and ideas of peace and approaches to peace-building. This research has helped us to think more about discourses of peace and metaphors for peace-building – for example, what impact appeals … Read more

Photographs are world-building. They don’t just reflect the world around us: they shape what we know, colour how we think, and impact how we feel. They focus our gaze towards certain events and people – and away from others. The perspectives they take frame our perceptions, direct the questions we might ask, and prompt particular … Read more

Kim is an undergraduate in the School of Philosophy at the University and has been a member of the Visualising Peace project since Spring 2023.   Her research has focused on political parties and their relationships to peace and peacebuilding, particularly in the UK. She discusses this research in a blog on our website, and draws … Read more

Several members of the Visualising Peace project have been researching representations of peace in different kinds of literature, and the role played by literature in shaping our habits of visualising peace. Student Thomas Frost has explored a range of literary representations of peace via some entries in our virtual Museum of Peace, such as this … Read more

In 2023, our Visualising Peace team collaborated with a team of students studying game design through Abertay University’s MPROF programme, to explore the challenges and opportunities of designing and marketing an online game about peace and peace-building. Brief The brief which the Visualising Peace team gave to our partners at Abertay was as follows: We … Read more

The landscape of war, propagated by history books and news media, haunts the social imaginary with images of defense infrastructure, environmental destruction, and mass human casualty. As with more insidious forms of conflict, the practice of visualizing peace exists on the periphery of collective consciousness. Although peace is elusive, it does, like all activity, materialize … Read more