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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)
 

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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 for free.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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Introducing Peace Museums
Joyce Apsel
(Routledge, 2016)
 
This book is open access and can be downloaded for free.
 
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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

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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

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

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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

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, 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,

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

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., 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