From prayer to dance, to political activism, to the sharing of memories, to collective climate action, to re-humanisation: peace can be found, crafted, fought for and promoted in many different ways. This ‘room’ in our museum brings together a wide range of approaches to peace-finding and peace-building to celebrate the diversity of options we have available to us. Some involve mind work: meditation, or adjusting our thinking about in-groups and out-groups. Others are physical: channeling or communicating peace through our bodies. Some revolve around personal interactions: a cup of tea, or the exchange of grief, regret, stories. Others catalyse communities into collective action, so that everyone has a chance to play a part. Humans are a resourceful and creative species: there are as many ways to find and make peace as there are people in the world.
Peace and Transcendence: Awe-Inspiring Experiences
Have you ever reached the top of a hill; emerged from a tree-lined bend…
Kartarpur Corridor
When India and Pakistan were Partitioned in 1947, the state of Punjab, the homeland…
Close Encounters of the Peaceful Kind
Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 film written and directed by…
Peace as Transcendence
‘Being human profoundly means to be open to the world, a world, that is,…
Stopping Bullets With Paper
Trigger warning: violence against children, psychological trauma “The LRA know they don’t have a…
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…
The Inner Peace of Mary Oliver’s Poetry
Award-winning poet Mary Oliver has published more than fifteen collections of poetry in the…
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…
Place is the Path to Peace
How would you describe the landscape of peace? The landscape of war, propagated by…
The Plowshares Movement
The Plowshares Movement originates from a protest action which took place in Pennsylvania in…
Pockets of Peace in St Andrews
As my research on peace has developed further in the direction of taking love…
Peace on the Airwaves
Trigger warning: gendered violence, psychological trauma The aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, in…
‘Could Be Laughs’: MASH, Film, and Artivism
MASH was an American TV show which ran from 1972 to 1983. It followed…
Visualizing Peace(ful Cities): The Experimental City
‘You become so attached to what you believe is the future, and a better…
The Ecumenical Peace Pilgrimage to South Sudan
A Christmas service in Darfur, South Sudan. Between the 5th and 7th of July…
As If It Had Seen Something Real: Peace and Possession (1981)
Trigger warnings: blood, body horror, self-harm, suicide ‘When I was a boy, my dog…
And what if things were different? Rapping for empathy
Bigflo and Oli are two French rappers, who regularly write pieces devoted to political…
Peace in Faith and Practice: Mediation and Disarmament
I do not know whether Quakers have special aptitudes or skills as mediators, but…
Beach Party Vietnam
Trigger warning: mutilation The Dead Milkmen were a punk rock band from Pennsylvania, known…
Visualizing Peace(ful Cities): Arcosanti
Exterior and interior of Arcosanti, photos by Finn on Unsplash ‘The problem I am…
Peace in Faith and Practice: Visualising Peace as Relief from Suffering
‘Almost always there is, behind the physical need, something much less concrete, a damaged…
Screenplay: No Love Lost
This summer I went with a group of friends to a nightclub in Edinburgh….
Peace-building through Archives: The Haifa Feminist Institute
Dr Sarai Aharoni, a Senior Lecturer of Gender Studies at the Ben-Gurion University of…
Visualizing Peace(ful Cities): The Invisible Urbicide Project
In autumn 2022, I created the Invisible Urbicide Project to encourage a general audience…
Visualizing Peace(ful Cities): The 15-Minute City
‘I would like to offer a concept of cities that goes in the opposite…
Peace in Faith and Practice: Quakers and Conscientious Objection
‘The savage momentum of war drags us all in its wake…’ London Yearly Quaker…
Screenplay: Hyacinths
“Listen. Listen to me.” I am writing a series of screenplays, reflecting on different…
Douglas Gillespie’s ‘Path of Peace’
In 2022, Sir Anthony Seldon published The Path of Peace: Walking the Western Front…
Drawing a Peace Narrative (Literally)
‘Āśā’, by Harris Siderfin and Maddie McCall (2022). You can download read the full…
Generation Peace: the power of story telling in peacebuilding and the heroes it can produce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5f3Qhzf7U4 This podcast hosts Rob Burnet, founder and CEO of Shujaaz Inc, a multimedia youth platform…
A Manufactured Image/With No Philosophies: Art and Peace in Head (1968)
Trigger warning: suicide The Monkees were a hybrid acting group/rock band formed in the…
Music in Space with Bjørn Vidø: Bringing us closer to peace on Earth?
During these challenging times from the pandemic to the climate emergency, we all need to…
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…
Peace in Faith and Practice: The Origins of Quaker Testimony on Peace and Non-violence
Take heed, dear Friends, to the promptings of love and truth in your hearts….
Taking love and care seriously in classrooms
Mindfulness is the energy that allows us to look deeply at our body, feelings,…
Screenplay: String Theory
‘If the world were ending, I’d hope that all my friends were in my…
Addressing Ahmadinejad: Music, Comedy, and Peace
“I know you say there’s no gays in Iran, but you’re in New York…
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…
Journey: visualising peace through gaming
Fig. 1 – The Traveller in front of a statue of the past Designed…
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,…