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Museums for Peace: In Search of History, Memory, and Change,

edited by Joyce Apsel, Clive Barrett and Roy Tamashiro

(Routledge, 2024).

This book is open access and can be downloaded without charge.

Contents:

Section 1 Setting the Scene

1 Situating Museums for Peace: In Search of History, Memory, and Change Joyce Apsel

2 Understanding “Museums for Peace” Clive Barrett

Section 2 The Praxis of Museums for Peace

3 Museums for Peace and Reconciliation in East Asia Kazuyo Yamane and Clive Barrett

4 The Africanized Peace Museum Movement and the Significance of Cultural Heritage Kimberly Baker and Munuve Mutisya

5 Gandhi and Peace in the Museums of the World Elisabetta Colagrossi

6 How Museums for Peace Depict the Technology of War and Opposition to It Clive Barrett

Section 3 The Identification and Portrayal of Violence in Museums for Peace

7 Narrating the Military Sexual Enslavement System: Museums Caught in the Crossfire Jane Joo Hyeon Lee and Roy Tamashiro

8 Japanese War Memory: Ongoing Challenges of Remembering and Forgetting Satoko Oka Norimatsu

9 Witnessing, Requiem, Reconciliation: Toward a Pedagogy for Curating Extreme Violence at Museums for Peace Roy Tamashiro

Section 4 The Future of Museums for Peace

10 Concluding Voices Joyce Apsel, Clive Barrett, and Roy Tamashiro

Barrett, C. and Apsel, J. (Eds.) (2012)
Museums for Peace: Transforming Cultures.

Dungen, P. van den, Liscaljet, N. (Eds.) 2014
Discover Peace. [ENGLISH VERSION]

Anzai, I., J. Apsel, J., and Mehdi, S.S. (Eds.) 2008
Museums for Peace: Past, Present and Future

Barrett, C., Your Place or Mine? Loyalty and a Culture of Peace., In: Peace review, vol. 22, no. 3, 2010

Barrett, C., The Conscientious Would Not Go; Peace Museums and Human Rights. In: Museums Fighting for Human Rights, (Gregory Chamberlain, ed.), 2011

Barrett, C., The Peacemaking Paradigms of Ritsumeikan and Rievaulx: Reflections on the Sixth International Conference of the International Network of Museums For Peace., 2008

Dungen, P. van den, Proposal for a Peace Museum in Britain: Some Observations., In: Medicine and War, vol. 7, no. 4, 1991

Dungen, P. van den, The International Museum of War and Peace at Lucerne., In: Schweizerische Zeitschrift fuer Geschichte/Revue Suisse d’Histoire/Rivista Storica Svizzera, vol. 31, no. 2, 1981

Dungen, P. van den, Book review: Introducing Peace Museums., In: Memory Studies, vol. 9, no. 4, 2016

Dungen, P. van den, 100 Years of War – 100 Years of Peace and the Peace Movement, 1914-2014., Opening Remarks of the 11th Annual Strategy Conference, Cologne-Riehl, February 2014

Dungen, P. van den, Projecting Peace Through History and Museums., In: Peace review, vol. 25, no. 1, 2013

Dungen, P. van den, Towards a Global Peace Museum Movement: A Progress Report (1986-2010)., In: Peace Forum. Peace Now and Then, vol. 24, No. 34, 2009

Dungen, P. van den, Peace Museums., In: World Encyclopedia of Peace. Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1986. Second edition, 1999

Dungen, P. van den, Peace Education: Peace Museums., In: Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict (Lester Kurtz, ed.), 1999

Dungen, P. van den, Peace Museums: Why? Where?, In: New Zealand Friends’ Newsletter, vol. 81, no. 9, 1998

Dungen, P. van den, Friedensmuseen im 20. Jahrhundert., In: Friedens-Forum, vol. 11, no. 6-7, 1997

Dungen, P. van den, Friedensmuseen., In: Friedens-Forum, vol. 11, no. 3, 1997

Dungen, P. van den, Peace Museums: Peaceful Future., In: Museums Journal, vol. 97, no. 1, 1997

Dungen, P. van den, The Peace Museum in Bradford and Peace Museums Worldwide., In: City of Peace: Bradford’s Story (Carol Rank, ed.), 1997

Dungen, P. van den, Peace Museums: Recent Developments., In: Medicine and War, vol. 10, no. 3, 1994

Dungen, P. van den, On the Creative Principles, Message and Thematic Content of a Peace Museum., In: Peace Museums (Ake Bjerstedt, ed.), 1993

Dungen, P. van den & B. Butler, A Time for War, A Time for Peace., In: Museums Journal, vol. 93, no. 7, 1993

Harten, M. van (Author),, The Hague Peace Trail,

Lössbroek, G. Vredesmusea, een bezoek waard. In:, VredesTertsPeriodiek,, vol. 17, no. 47 (Vredescentrum Technische Universiteit Eindhoven), 2007

Mehdi, S.S., A Peace Museum on the Wagah Border., In: South Asian Journal, vol. 10, 2005

Rank, C., Peace Museums: Helping to Build a Culture of Peace., In: Peace Matters, vol. 28, 1999/2000

Somjee, S., The Ubuntu Stratagem. Utu and Peace Sustaining Heritage of Africa South of the Sahara., In: African Peace Journal, 2014.

Somjee, S., Material Culture, Indigenous Aesthetics and Community Peace Museums in Building Kenyan Identities Through Art Education., In: Art in Eastern Africa (Marion Arnold, ed.), 2008

Tamashiro, Roy & Furnari, E., Museums for peace: agents and instruments of peace education,, Journal of Peace Education, 12:3, 223-235, 2015.

Yamane, K., Moving Beyond the War Memorial Museum, In: Peace Forum. Peace Now and Then, vol. 24, No. 34, 2009

Yamane, K., Peace Museums in Japan: The Controversial Exhibits on Japan’s Aggression at Peace Museums and Citizens’ Efforts for Peace and Reconciliation., University of Bradford, Department of Peace Studies, PhD Thesis, 2006

Yamane, K., Japanese Peace Museums: Education and Reconciliation., In: Peace Studies in the Chinese Century: International Perspectives (Alan Hunter, ed.), 2006

Yamane, K., Peace Museums and Peace Studies in Japan., In: Journal of Nanjing University, vol. 42, no. 2, 2005

Yamane, K., Creating a Culture of Peace at a Peace Museum., In: World Peace and Disarmament (Leena Parmar, ed.), 2003

Yamane, K., Local Efforts for Creating Nonviolent Futures: A Case of Kochi, Japan., In: Social Alternatives, vol. 15, no. 3, 1996

25 Years of INMP (1992 - 2017): A Digital Timeline

In 2017, the INMP commemorated 25 years with its Ninth International Conference of Museums for Peace in Belfast, Northern Ireland. At this event, a Digital Timeline of INMP was launched. Click on the image(s) to view the timeline