Making peace with oneself. Finding healing after trauma. Starting a conversation with ‘the enemy’. Asking for forgiveness. Overcoming divisions. Negotiating a ceasefire. Designing a peace treaty. Promoting ‘truth and reconciliation’. Campaigning for social justice. What do you think ‘peace-making’ involves? The items in this ‘room’ encourage us to look at conflict resolution, peace-making and peace-building from lots of different angles. They ask us to consider how inner peace connects to peace-making in the wider world. And they get us thinking about differences between ‘top-down’ peace-making, involving governments and international bodies, and ‘bottom-up’ peace-making, facilitated by ordinary people from the ‘grassroots’. We hope you enjoy exploring!
Cambridge Union Debate: Where Does Northern Ireland Belong?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4T2Var1zdY The full debate is available to watch on the Cambridge Union Youtube Channel….
Dad’s Army: Pockets of Peace and Humour?
Still from Dad’s Army (1971), directed by Norman Cohen; timestamp 1.20.00-1.27.52, accessed via BoB…
Fractured Peace: a visual representation
Inspired by our discussions of different methods of visualising peace – and in particular,…
Journey: visualising peace through gaming
Fig. 1 – The Traveller in front of a statue of the past Designed…
Om Shanti – An invocation for peace – ॐ शान्तिः
Sinderen in the Netherlands, 2021 If somebody is a real symbol of non-violence, love,…
Colombia: The long road to peace
‘I’ve come to realise that a peace treaty is only the beginning of a…
The Magnus Archives, episode 95
Trigger warning – cannibalism, suicide, gore ‘As I walked alongside them, I knew that…
Education: a force for sustainable peace
‘Educating a girl will create equal and stable societies, and educated refugees will be…
Pockets of Peace in Ukraine, Spring 2022: A Reflection
An emerging trend in International Relations literature conceives of peace as acts of empathy…
Pockets of Peace in Ukraine, Spring 2022: Care for Animals
On 24 February 2022, the Russian army invaded Ukraine, starting the first international land…
Pockets of Peace in Ukraine, Spring 2022: Care through Music
On 24 February 2022, the Russian army invaded Ukraine, starting the first international land…
How to make a Fruit Basket for the Aliens
During the summer I was 14 years old, I went to a two-week summer…
Frankenstein in Baghdad
Trigger warning: descriptions of gore, body parts, corpses ‘I wanted to hand him over…
Mother Night – Kurt Vonnegut
Trigger warning – discussion of the Holocaust “We are what we pretend to be,…
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Trigger warning – suicide “Most men and women will grow up to love their…
Jojo Rabbit
“You’re not a Nazi, Jojo. You’re a ten-year-old kid who likes dressing up in…
‘Jasmine’ by Nora Nadjarian
“… But the garden was not hers, she was told. Nor was the aroma,which…
Make Me A Channel of Your Peace
Make me a channel of your peaceWhere there is hatred let me bring your…
Pentagon Peace Pals
Cuddling up to ‘peace’ in military contexts A Pentagon ‘Peace Pal’ This stuffed bear…
Peace Through Movement
‘I have always turned to dance as a means of feeling at peace –…
Padre Steve’s Christmas Journey of Healing
“In each of those encounters with those suffering there was a glimmer of hope…
Achilles in Vietnam and Peace Through Rehumanization
Trigger warning: descriptions of graphic violence In the early 1990s, Dr. Jonathan Shay was…
Journey for Forgiveness
Trigger warning: injury, death, trauma “Something very bad happened to your father, and it…