Visualising War and Peace

‘I have to talk about it so that the world can know what happened to women and girls in Sudan’ – rape and terror sparks mass migration Hundreds of returnees and forced migrants reported being terrorised by soldiers and armed militias on both sides of the Sudan civil war.

This comes with a content warning - but the women sharing their horrifying testimony want the world to know what has been done to them: theconversation.com/i-have-to-ta...

Bringing ancient and modern peace studies into dialogue... To launch the Ancient Peace Studies Network, we are hosting an inaugural workshop @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @staclassics.bsky.social 20-22 January 2026. More info here: apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/

Join us on Wednesday for the first in a series of three online workshops on Teaching Ancient War and Peace: arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/visualising-...

The Visualising War and Peace project is exploring current practice and future approaches to teaching ancient war and peace. To join in our discussions, please register for our online workshops (26th Nov, 1st Dec, 10th Dec) by emailing viswar@st-andrews.ac.uk. arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/visualising-...

Trump seeks to rebrand Department of Defense as Department of War The US president has sought to refocus the department on

At a time when we need more than ever to invest in peace - indeed, to have Ministers for Peace, Secretaries of State for Peace, Departments of Peace - this happens: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Militarism does not secure anyone's future!

Over €10 billion has now been pledged for Ukraine’s recovery. It’s nowhere near enough Ukraine has been at war for more than a decade. The task of rebuilding the country and healing its people is likely to take even longer.

Post-conflict recovery costs so much - in so many different currencies (monetary and otherwise): theconversation.com/over-10-bill...

'Small' violence at the threshold of war and peace, with Lauren Benton - Visualising War and Peace In this episode, Alice interviews Lauren Benton, Professor of History and Law at Yale University. Prof Benton specialises in global legal history and the history of European empires. She has a raft of...

It was a pleasure to interview Prof. Lauren Benton for our latest podcast episode, about so-called 'small' violence at the threshold of war and peace. Tune in here to listen to our chat about her recent book 'They Called it Peace: worlds of imperial violence': www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...

New Perspectives on WarTIME with Beryl Pong - Visualising War and Peace In this episode, Alice interviews Dr Beryl Pong, an expert on 20th-century and contemporary war. Beryl is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Future of Intelli...

We have a new podcast out this week! Tune in here to listen to a fascinating discussion with Beryl Pong on experiences of warTIME and chronophobia, and on the impact of drone technologies on our habits of visualising war and peace: www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...

Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes in Gaza Distinguished lawyers, senior humanitarians and diplomats tell Jeremy Bowen why they are increasingly concerned about the catastrophe inside Gaza.

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The Reckoning Project The Reckoning Project combines the power of story-telling and legal accountability to fight for justice, safeguard rights and restore truth in the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Important work, incubated by @iwpr.net : www.thereckoningproject.com

We have enjoyed reading Umachandran & Ward's The Case For Forgetting Classics - but students @uniofstandrews.bsky.social have also been making strong arguments about how to de-deploy, not forget, Classics antiquity today: modernclassics.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/05/16/g...

BBC cameraman haunted by Gaza's malnourished children injured in Israeli strike Israel says it targeted top Hamas militants hiding among civilians at the Khan Younis hospital.

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'Children handcuffed and shot' - ex-UK Special Forces break silence on war crime claims Veterans who served with the SAS and SBS give BBC Panorama eyewitness accounts of alleged executions.

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Israel’s peace movement offers a ray of hope amid the pain of Gaza conflict Yuval Katz recently spent time in Israel witih peace activists.

Rays of hope here: theconversation.com/israels-peac... More commitment to 'standing together' is urgently needed.

Excited to be able to share the latest winners of Never Such Innocence's annual competition, giving children and young people a voice on conflict. This year's theme was about preventing future wars and the entries have lots to teach us: indd.adobe.com/view/a2e068b...

Language of peace: why talk of ‘making deals’ rather than ‘reaching agreements’ is not helpful The language of peacemaking is critical to the success of a settlement.

'If the words we use not only reflect our understanding of issues but also shape understandings, then replacing discussion of peace “agreements” with talk of peace “deals” matters a lot.' theconversation.com/language-of-...

USAID: the human cost of Donald Trump’s aid freeze for a war-torn part of Sudan A snapshot of the effect of the freeze in USAID on one part of Sudan.

'The consequences of famine are lasting.' Physiological, psychological, social, political. Human-made famine, deepened by withdrawal of USAID: theconversation.com/usaid-the-hu...

Visualising War across the Ancient Mediterranean: Interplay between Conflict Narratives in different Media and Genres This volume offers novel readings of ancient conflict narratives from around the ancient Mediterranean and explores their impact on later habits of understanding and representing war, with an innovati...

Excited about the upcoming publication of our edited volume, Visualising War across the Ancient Mediterranean: www.routledge.com/Visualising-... Out at the end of this month!

Introducing the Ancient Peace Studies Network - Visualising War and Peace temp text: In this episode of the Visualising War and Peace podcast, guest-host Zofia Guertin speaks with Dr. Alice König about her work expanding the Visualising War project to include peace stu...

New podcast coming out this week, introducing the Ancient Peace Studies Network! www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...

Opening at the end of the month at Callendar House, Falkirk: the last stage of our exhibition, Somewhere to Stay, by artist Diana Forster: forcedmigration.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

Ancient Peace Studies Network Visit the post for more.

Excited to have been awarded a grant by the BA/Leverhulme to set up the first ever Ancient Peace Studies Network! apsn.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

Paper Cranes at Downside School In November 2024, staff and students at Downside School (near Bath in the UK) went off curriculum for a War and Peace Week. Among other activities, they spent time exploring our virtual Museum of P…

Delighted that one of the schools we have been working with has sent us an entry for our virtual Museum of Peace, featuring some youth-led peace education about Nagasaki: peacemuseum.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/03/09/p...

A great new resource on peace photography developed by visual sociologist Tiffany Fairey and team
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social: imagingpeace.org/index.php/pe... Street exhibition on The Strand coming up on 19th March!

Snippets of Home East Ayrshire Leisure Trust

Super excited that the wonderful Dick Institute in Kilmarnock is launching an exhibition of young people's work (art and poetry) in response to Somewhere to Stay, the art exhibition we have been working on with Diana Forster: eastayrshireleisure.com/events/snipp... @staclassics.bsky.social

"Teaching Ancient War's Aftermath: Current approaches, what works well, what could be different?"
💻Online consultation hosted by @viswarpeace.bsky.social, 🗓24 February, ⏰1-2pm.

👉Registration (free) forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Enquiries to vispeace@st-andrews.ac.uk

#AncientPeace #Curriculum

DR Congo conflict in Goma: M23 rebels leave families devastated in wake of advance The BBC meets residents of Goma following the rebel takeover and those being forced by the M23 to leave camps.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How to Survive a Warzone: The lives of 4 kids surviving in Gaza A BBC film follows children over nine months including one boy, 11, who volunteered at al-Aqsa hospital.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ancient war stories and their real-world ramifications - Visualising War and Peace In this episode, Zofia Guertin interviews Alice König about her recent research on ancient habits of visualising war and peace. Alice has recently co-edited a new book with Nicolas Wiater, on anc...

We have a new podcast out today, to mark the publication of a new edited volume on Visualising War across the Ancient Mediterranean. Tune in here to find out more about 'ancient war stories and their real-world ramifications': www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...

Bon courage to all colleagues working in this increasingly hostile environment. Here's to riding out the storm and hoping for better weather to come...

Thank you for doing this important work! It matters.