Alice Konig

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

The close connections between climate change and conflict – and between climate sustainability and peace – are increasingly recognised. Several members of the Visualising Peace team have been exploring human-environment relations, the ongoing climate crisis, environmental protection projects and climate campaigning as part of their research into how we conceptualise peace and approach peacebuilding. This … Read more

‘The Moon and other celestial bodies shall be used exclusively for peaceful purposes…’ United Nations Outer Space Treaty, 1967 Alongside research on local peace, architectural peace projects, and the relationship between peacemaking and placemaking here on earth, several members of the Visualising Peace team have explored conceptions of peace and approaches to securisation, peacekeeping and … Read more

Arden is an undergraduate at the University and has been a member of the Visualising Peace team since Spring 2022.  Her research focuses on storytelling, fictional narratives, and peacebuilding.   This semester, she created three short films. Two of these are fictional stories about both internal and political peace.  She has written about the process of … Read more

As we have learnt from several podcast guests (Emily Spiers, Will Slocombe & Matthew Brown and August Cole & Peter Singer), Futures Literacy is a skill or capability that we can all develop to help us imagine and discuss the future and make better decisions in the present. Traditionally, futures thinking has been done by … Read more

Peace studies today often focuses on contemporary issues and very recent (21st or late 20th century) history; but we can learn a lot about current habits of visualising peace and peacebuilding by exploring imaginaries and approaches from many different periods and places. For that reason, team members have been researching conceptions of peace and manifestations of peacebuilding … Read more

Experts on militarisation stress the impact of everyday militarisms in our popular culture and physical environment, and have highlighted fashion as a medium that can embed military images, ideals, acceptance and aspiration into our psyche. Prompted by this, team member Federica Consiglio explored visualisations of peace and efforts at peace building in the fashion industry:

Kara is an undergraduate student in the School of History at the university. Her research focuses on visualising peace in medieval and early modern Europe, paying particular attention to Anglo-Scottish relations during this period.   Her work culminated in a timeline of peace between Scotland and England in the medieval and early modern eras. She prioritises … Read more