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Over €10 billion has now been pledged for Ukraine’s recovery. It’s nowhere near enough

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Visualising War and Peace @viswarpeace.bsky.social · Aug 4

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

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.

'Small' violence at the threshold of war and peace, with Lauren Benton - Visualising War and Peace

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Visualising War and Peace @viswarpeace.bsky.social · Aug 1

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...

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...

New Perspectives on WarTIME with Beryl Pong - Visualising War and Peace

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Visualising War and Peace @viswarpeace.bsky.social · Jul 8

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...

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...

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Visualising War and Peace @viswarpeace.bsky.social · Jun 8

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.

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.

Visualising War and Peace @viswarpeace.bsky.social · May 31

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

The Reckoning Project

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Visualising War and Peace @viswarpeace.bsky.social · May 28

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...

Gaming Antiquity to Critique Modern Ideologies – Classics for the modern world

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Visualising War and Peace @viswarpeace.bsky.social · May 14

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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Visualising War and Peace @viswarpeace.bsky.social · May 12

'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.

Israel’s peace movement offers a ray of hope amid the pain of Gaza conflict

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Visualising War and Peace @viswarpeace.bsky.social · May 9

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

Yuval Katz recently spent time in Israel witih peace activists.

Language of peace: why talk of ‘making deals’ rather than ‘reaching agreements’ is not helpful

Visualising War and Peace @viswarpeace.bsky.social · Apr 29

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...

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Visualising War and Peace @viswarpeace.bsky.social · Apr 29

'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-...

The language of peacemaking is critical to the success of a settlement.

USAID: the human cost of Donald Trump’s aid freeze for a war-torn part of Sudan

Visualising War and Peace @viswarpeace.bsky.social · Apr 11

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

A snapshot of the effect of the freeze in USAID on one part of Sudan.

Visualising War across the Ancient Mediterranean: Interplay between Conflict Narratives in different Media and Genres

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Visualising War and Peace @viswarpeace.bsky.social · Mar 21

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!

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...

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Visualising War and Peace @viswarpeace.bsky.social · Mar 18

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

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...

Visualising War and Peace @viswarpeace.bsky.social · Mar 11

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

Visualising War and Peace @viswarpeace.bsky.social · Mar 10

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

Visit the post for more.

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Visualising War and Peace @viswarpeace.bsky.social · Mar 9

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...

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…

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Visualising War and Peace @viswarpeace.bsky.social · Mar 3

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!

Peace Photography Guide | Imaging Peace

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Visualising War and Peace @viswarpeace.bsky.social · Feb 25

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

Snippets of Home

East Ayrshire Leisure Trust

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St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social · Feb 20

"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 [email protected]

#AncientPeace #Curriculum

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Visualising War and Peace @viswarpeace.bsky.social · Feb 18

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.

Visualising War and Peace @viswarpeace.bsky.social · Feb 15

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.

Ancient war stories and their real-world ramifications - Visualising War and Peace

Visualising War and Peace @viswarpeace.bsky.social · Feb 12

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...

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...