Cells of Peace
One of our team members – Ideja Bajra – has been diving deep into cell biology to explore its potential for visualising peace and peacebuilding in productive new ways. Watch this space for some exciting outputs!
Alice Konig
Music and Peace
We are in the process of an exciting collaboration with music students at the University of Andrews and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. We look forward to sharing our research and their outputs soon! Music is a deeply affective art form. It can paint pictures with soundscapes and tell stories without words. Music … Read more
Peace Photography
Over the past three years, the Visualising Peace team has been exploring the power of photography to represent and help build peace. We have learnt a lot from scholars working in visual politics and from professional photojournalists like Hugh Kinsella Cunningham – who worked with us on a photography exhibition in June-July 2023, which featured … Read more
AI for Peacebuilding
In this presentation, Visualising Peace student Ideja Bajra explains how AI tools and machine learning might be developed to support a wide range of peacebuilding initiatives, from enhancing inner peace to contributing to geopolitical peace processes. She talks us through how we can go about building an AI model for peacebuilding ourselves (there is a … Read more
Chatty Monday for Peace
The Visualising Peace team has been exploring the relationship between responsible debate and peacebuilding. As part of this a group of students – Tao Yazaki, Zoe Gudino, Finlay Whitton, Anna Pilgrim, Jazmin Smallridge, and Tabitha Stuart – have been running a series of debates using different formats, from competitive to collaborative approaches. We had two … Read more
Responsible Debate and Peacebuilding
An interview between Visualising Peace members Tao Yazaki, Zoe Gudino and Alice König: Tao, Zoe: What is Responsible Debate? Alice: On a daily basis at the moment, I think we all see examples of debate that we might call ‘irresponsible’ – in politics, in some parts of the media, and online. Discussions that are based … Read more
Constructive Climate Communication
Visualising Peace student Madighan Ryan has been researching the links between peace-building and environmentalism. She has combined this with her interests in journalism, advocacy, public debate and civil resistance – which are all key to how we identify and address conflicts and their causes. In her report on Constructive Climate Communication in Wealth Democracies, Madighan … Read more
NGO Peacebuilding: a case study via Save the Children
Around the world, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are actively working to address a wide variety of issues faced by individuals around the globe. The work of NGOs ranges from small, local operations to huge international efforts; but despite differences in scale and target demographics, NGOs work towards a common goal of tacking issues for the betterment … Read more
Images of Peace in Tolkien’s works
In the essay below, Visualising Peace student Albert Surinach I Campos discusses the nuanced ways in which Tolkien visualises peace and conflict across his works, especially in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. He also considers a range of illustrations, artwork and media adaptations of Middle-Earth and how they shift and alter Tolkien’s vision of pacifism … Read more
Once upon a time there was… peace
Kim Wahnke, December 2023 Fairy tales are one of the most well-known literary forms amongst children, and have occupied this space for centuries around the globe. With their simple forms and magical characters, they manage to appeal to a variety of children. Fairy tales are some of the most significant texts in influencing children and … Read more