A Vertically Integrated Project
Alice Konig War memorials have long played a role in marking the transition from war to peace and in post-conflict recovery. Several members of the Visualising Peace team have researched the storytelling done by different war memorials, the perspectives they represent, and the potential they can have for driving conflict as much as mourning, remembering and recovering … Read more
Peace gets built in many different ways, by many different actors. Our research team has been studying the range of roles played by NGOs in different peacebuilding processes, and also in humanitarian contexts (such as natural disasters) where peacebuilding might not be the explicit mission but a key dimension nonetheless. Visualising Peace student Robert Rayner … Read more
Visualising Peace student Otilia Meden has brought together two interests in her recent research: the cultivation of inner peace, and peace education. As a Laidlaw Scholar at the University of St Andrews, she spent six weeks in July and August 2023 conducting some comparative research into young people’s experiences of peace education in Argentina, Denmark … Read more
Shengyuan Ji, December 2022 Radicalisation The term ‘radicalisation’ has been defined as the process by which someone is encouraged to develop extreme views or beliefs in support of terrorist groups and activities’ . This definition is very vague; indeed, it does not really provide a definition for the term itself, but leans on two other very loaded … Read more
Christy Forshaw, June 2023 Latin America has seen a prevalence of violent political instability in the past century. Coinciding with this, the past century has also been a time of literary growth in the region, most commonly as a result of the ‘boom’ of the 1960s and 1970s.[1] As a result, analysis of Latin American literature … Read more
Links to Shengyuan’s three blogs
Whatever we inherit from the fortunateWe have taken from the defeatedWhat they had to leave us – a symbol:A symbol perfected in death T. S. Eliot, Collected Poems 1909-1962. (London: Faber and Faber, 1974): 220 I hae mair ado than I can manage the day, foreby ganging to houk up hunder-year-auld-banes. James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and … Read more
Among other projects, we have been researching trends in peace education across different sectors and settings. Despite the enormous benefits of supporting young people to learn and think critically about peace and peace-building, many students still spend more time studying war than peace. We have been surveying teachers, pupils and curriculum designers to find out more … Read more
Extending our research on peace-storytelling habits, and our interest in using narratives in different media to deepen peace literacy, we have been collaborating with professional theatre company NMT Automatics, who specialise in using ancient myths to tell modern stories. Since theatre first became an art form, war has been frequently represented on stage; but we have seen … Read more
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