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Peace Museums: Selected Essays

Peter van den Dungen.

(Springer, 2024.)

With a Foreword by Syed Sikander Mehdi.

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CONTENT

Jan Bloch’s International Museum of War and Peace in Lucerne, 1902–1919 (1981)

Ernst Friedrich’s Anti-war Museum in Berlin, 1925–1933 (1986)

Peace Museums (1986)

On the Creative Principles, Message, and Thematic Content of a Peace Museum (1993)

Peace Education: Peace Museums (1999)

Monuments of a Uniting Europe (2005)

Preventing Catastrophe: The World’s First Peace Museum (2006)

Exhibiting Peace: Projects and Initiatives in the Netherlands, 1900–1930s (2008)

Towards a Global Peace Museum Movement: A Progress Report, 1986–2010 (2009)

Towards a Bertha von Suttner Peace Museum in Vienna, 1914–2014 (2010)

The Role of Peace Museums in Promoting a Culture of Peace (2012)

Projecting Peace Through History and Museums (2013)

The History of World Peace in 100 Objects: Visualizing Peace in a Peace Museum (2014)

The Price of Peace: Rare Books of Peace (2000)

The Role of Museums for Peace in Preventing War and Promoting Remembrance, Historical Truth and Reconciliation (2014)

Peace Education Through Peace Museums (2015)

Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Through Anti-atomic Bomb Museums (2016)

A Short History of the International Network of Museums for Peace (INMP) on Its 25th Anniversary, 1992–2017 (2017)

Peace Museums and Public Education (2017)

The Heritage of Peace: The Importance of Peace Museums for the Development of a Culture of Peace (2017)

Conveying the Reality of War: Vasily Verestchagin: “The Greatest Painter of the Horrors of War That Ever Lived” (2020)

Museums for Peace: In Search of History, Memory, and Change
edited by Joyce Apsel, Clive Barrett and Roy Tamashiro (Routledge, 2024)

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CONTENTS:

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

Clive Barrett Understanding "Museums for Peace".

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

Kimberley Baker and Munuve Mutisya The Africanized Peace Museum Movement and the Significance of Cultural Heritage.

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

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

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

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

Roy Tamashiro Curating Extreme Violence at Museums for Peace: Witnessing, Requiem, Reconciliation.

Roy Tamashiro, Clive Barrett and Joyce Apsel Concluding Voices.

Museums for Peace Worldwide

edited by Kazuyo Yamane and Ikuro Anzai.

Published 2020 by the International Network of Museums for Peace.

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This is an international directory of over 300 museums, across 49 countries, which document tragedies of war and violence or promote the human endeavour for peace. There are descriptions of each museum - its mission, vision, exhibitions - and both geographical and internet contact details.

It includes an essay, “Critical Museums for Peace: Visiting Museums for Peace Worldwide”, by Joyce Apsel.

Museums and Sites of Persuasion

edited by Joyce Apsel and Amy Sodaro

(Routledge 2019).

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Museums and Sites of Persuasion examines the concept of museums and memory sites as locations that attempt to promote human rights, democracy and peace. Demonstrating that such sites have the potential to act as powerful spaces of persuasion or contestation, the book also shows that there are perils in the selective memory and history that they present.

Introducing Peace Museums

Joyce Apsel

(Routledge, 2016)

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CONTENTS:

Introducing Peace Museums: Peace Matters

The Peace Museum in Bradford, UK: Fostering Peace Education and Community Cohesion While Preserving Peace Art and History

Kyoto Museum for World Peace: Speaking Truth to Power - A University Peace Museum

Gernika Peace Museum: Creating a Culture of Peace and Reconciliation

Dayton International Peace Museum: A Community Model

The Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, and Casa per la Pace La Filanda, Casalecchio di Reno: Individuals and Movements for Peace and Pacifism

Conclusion: Peace Museums Looking Forward

Selected Bibliography

Museums for Peace: Transforming Cultures

Edited by Clive Barrett and Apsel, J.

Published by INMP, 2012

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Selected papers associated with the 2011 INMP Conference in Barcelona.

CONTENTS:

Peter van den Dungen Preface

Clive Barrett and Joyce Apsel Museums for Peace: Transforming Cultures

Jordi Capdevila Montjuic Castle: From a military fortress to a center for peace, historical memory and knowledge

Lourdes Verges Fundacio per la Pau (Peace Foundation)

Timothy Gachanga Reconstructing Social Relations through the Community Peace Museum, Kenya

Karen Knipp-Rentrop The Mobile Museum: Connecting past and present to build a peaceful future in Rwanda

William Repicci Pasos Peace Museum: The Inspiration and Challenges of Creating a Museum that Empowers the Peacebuider in Each of Us

Iratxe Momoitio Astorkia The Gernkia Peace Museum: Education Workshops on Peace and Human Rights with Children and Teachers

Clive Barrett Sadako or Al Qaeda? A Peace Museum Approach to Counter Terrorism

Julie Obermeyer The "Campaign! Make an Impact" model in UK museums: inspiring young people to work for peace

Anna Piccinini Creating a Culture of Peace: The Gorla Memorial and Peace Education in Italy

Balkrishna Kurvey The Role of a Peace Museum towards building a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence (an Indian Perspective)

Alicia Cabezudo Reflections on Peace Education in the 21st Century

Joyce Apsel New Directions in Educating for Peace: Developing Critical Peace Museum Studies

Erik Somers Travelling Exhibition: War Child

Kazuyo Yamane Peace Education at the Center for Tokyo Air-Raids and War Damage

Yang Shanyou Peace Defender - John Rabe, and the John Rabe Memorial Hall, a Peace Museum

Katherine Josten The Global Art Project for Peace

Roy Tamashiro The Global Forum: Worldwide Participatory Events for Peace and Human Rights

Vittorio Pallotti A Museum for Peace: Images and Themes from the Poster Collection housed in Casa per la Pace

Carmen Gascon Baquero Image of Peace: Re-creating Curiosity and Hope

Roger Mayou Towards a Museum of Hope

Herbert George A Memorial for the Innocent Victims of War

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, Peace Museums and Public Education, In: Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory (Michael A. Peters, ed.), 2017

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, Die Gruendung des Internationalen Kriegs- und Friedensmuseum in Luzern (Junie 1902), In Krieg und Frieden in Luzern 2002/War and Peace in Lucerne 2002 (Walter Troxler, ed.), 2004.

Dungen, P. van den, The Role of Peace Museums in Promoting a Culture of Peace, In La Paz, Partera de la Historia (Arenas & Munoz, eds.), 2012

Dungen, P. van den, The Role of Museums for Peace in Preventing War and Promoting Remembrance, Historical Truth and Reconciliation, In The eighth International Conference of Museums for Peace: A Collection of Best Conference Papers (Tamashiro & Yamane, eds.), 2014

Dungen, P. van den, Museums for Peace: Past, Present and Future, In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Museums for Peace, 2009

Dungen, P. van den, Towards a Bertha von Suttner Peace Museum in Vienna (1914-2014), In ImPrisma. Bertha von Suttner, “Die Waffen nieder!“ (Johann G. Lughofer, ed.), 2010

Dungen, P. van den, Abolishing Nuclear Weapons through Anti-Atomic Bomb Museums, In Peace Review, 28/3, 2016

Dungen, P. van den, A Short History of the International Network of Museums for Peace (INMP) on its 25th Anniversary (1992-2017), In INMP Newsletter, No. 18,March 2017

Dungen, P. van den, Frieden im Museum – oder: Was stellen Friedensmuseen aus?, In „Der Friede ist keine leere Idee ...“ Bilder und Vorstellungen vom Frieden am Beginn der politischen Moderne (Thomas Kater, ed.), 2006

Dungen, P. van den, Preventing Catastrophe: The World’s First Peace Museum, In Ritsumeikan Kokusai Kenkyu/The Ritsumeiken Journal of International Studies, 18/3, 2006

Dungen, P. van den, Exhibiting Peace: Projects and Initiatives in the Netherlands (1900-1930s), In Museums for Peace: Past, Present and Future (Anzai, Apsel & Mehdi, eds.), 2008

Dungen, P. van den, Peace Museums in the Twentieth Century, In United Nations Publications on Peace: Peace Museums Worldwide, 1998

Dungen, P. van den, Peace Museums, In dialog – Beitraege zur Friedensforschung, 8/1, 1987

Dungen, P. van den, La Rete Internazionale dei Musei per la Pace, In Convegno Internazionale ‚Museo-Laboratorio per una cultura di nonviolenza nella Citta’, 2007

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

Dungen, P. van den, Elie Ducommun, le Musee de la Guerre et de la Paix a Lucerne, L’Exposition Universelle de Paris., In Elie Ducommun. Prix Nobel de la Paix Meconnu (Roger Durand, ed.), 2012.

Harten, M. van, The Hague Peace Trail,

Kim Yeong Hwan, Promoting Peace and Reconciliation as a Citizen of East Asia: the Collaborative East Asian Workshop and the Grassroots House Peace Museum, Asia-Pacific Journal, Cambridge University Press, May 2025

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