Peace is fragile. The language we use to talk about peace tends to separate it from war, as if the two are alternative states – but in reality, peace and war often overlap. ‘Post-conflict’ can all too quickly become ‘conflict’ again. For that reason, peace-keeping is just as important as peace-making – but what does peace-keeping look like in different contexts? Men with guns patrolling the streets to ‘keep the peace’? Civilians behind computers monitoring the digital highways for signs of trouble? Women from different sides of a conflict taking their children to a joint playgroup? The efforts of a teacher to keep conflict-affected pupils focused on their school-work? The different manifestations of peace-keeping collected together in this part of our museum have a lot to teach us about peace itself.
The Hidden Costs of Unification
Stopping Bullets With Paper
Trigger warning: violence against children, psychological trauma “The LRA know they don’t have a…
Twenty-Five Years of the Good Friday Agreement and the Challenges of Grassroots Peacebuilding
Truth, Justice, and a Hard-Boiled Egg: Peace and Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch
“Don’t put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That’s why they’re…
Chintu Ka Birthday
Chintu Ka Birthday (lit. Chintu’s Birthday) is a 2019 Hindi-language film which follows a…
(Un)Natural Altruism?
Trigger warning: references to genocide and ethnic violence As ethnic and political violence erupted…
The ‘Wolfe Tones’: Rebel Songs and the Rhetoric of Peace in Ireland
“Get Your Brits Out”- ‘Kneecap’, Activism and Antagonism in Northern Ireland
Trying to Remember the Kaddish: Inner Peace in Mikey and Nicky (1976)
‘It’s very hard to talk to a dead person. I have nothing in common.’…
Beach Party Vietnam
Trigger warning: mutilation The Dead Milkmen were a punk rock band from Pennsylvania, known…
I love you, though I do not know who you are: a recipe for peace
Even when not overtly at war, our local and national communities are often far…
Creating Peace in Post-Conflict Society: The use of Intergroup Contact Theory
In 2022, the Visualising Peace team at the University of St Andrews set up…
STAR WARS: THE FINAL FRONTIER?
Discussing the Importance of Peace in Space ‘The Moon and other celestial bodies shall…
Peace is Fun!
What do you remember learning about peace as you grew up? By the time…
Mindful peace with Haemin Sunim
The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to be Calm…
Om Shanti – An invocation for peace – ॐ शान्तिः
Sinderen in the Netherlands, 2021 If somebody is a real symbol of non-violence, love,…
Is hacktivism peaceful?
We are Anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget….
Woo Youngmi, Seoul Fashion Week 2018
Woo Youngmi 2019 A central theme of Seoul Fashion Week in Fall/Winter 2018 was…
Mother Night: Guilt and Recovery
Trigger warning – discussion of the Holocaust “We are what we pretend to be,…
Claiming the Right to Be Unhappy: Brave New World and Failed Peace
Trigger warning – suicide “Most men and women will grow up to love their…
‘Jasmine’ by Nora Nadjarian
“… But the garden was not hers, she was told. Nor was the aroma,which…
Pentagon Peace Pals
Cuddling up to ‘peace’ in military contexts A Pentagon ‘Peace Pal’ This stuffed bear…
Unlearning War
These children will need to learn something as basic as how to play normally,…
Hope in a Jar
Visualising Peace with Honey In 2014, ISIS captured the Iraqi city of Mosul.[i] Terrible acts…