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 [email protected]. arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/visualising-...

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!

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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!

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

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

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!

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 [email protected] #AncientPeace #Curriculum

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...

'My final word is peace. I want peace, my people want peace.' But also: 'my life is war, my education is war, and my language is war.' A revealing 2013 interview with Sultani Emmanuel Makenga, leader of the M23 rebel group who have been seizing new territory in the DRC: newafricanmagazine.com/3565/

If only this weren't necessary - access to education is always compromised by war: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A TEDx talk on the Visualising War and Peace project from last year: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYZV...

Powerful reporting from Hugh Kinsella Cunningham on the escalations of fighting in the DRC: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

"I don't have an illusion that films are going to change the world, but I know they can change individuals, and I know that they can be part of a bigger change, and we really need this now." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Great to see: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article.... In 2021 we interviewed Dr Omar Mohammed (aka Mosul Eye) about his work as a historian and peace activist, live-blogging the siege of Mosul and supporting its slow recovery: www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis... Inspiring work in the wake of conflict.

This sounds terrific - a podcast about the new opera ‘Letters that you will not get’ by Kirsten Volness and Susan Werbe. It is based on letters written by women during the First World War.

"Teaching Ancient War: Current approaches, what works well, what could be different?" 💻Online consultation 1, 🗓29 January, ⏰1-2pm. **Registration** Event is free. 👉View details and register: forms.office.com/pages/respon... @viswarpeace.bsky.social #ClassicsBluesky

'The temporary ceasefire agreement in Gaza is a relief, but it arrives more than 465 days and 46,000 lives too late.' www.msf.org/relief-after...

Writing about visualising war/peace through music today, and remembering this great conversation from a couple of years back on the opera Letters That You Will Not Get: Women's Voices from the Great War: www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...

Another dive into our podcast archive, as conflict in the DRC continues to escalate: here's award-winning photojournalist Hugh Kinsella Cunningham discussing his approach to documenting the impacts of conflict via photography: www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...

This parallel histories project looks very valuable - both for conflict education and responsible debate: www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Some exhibition planning today, for the next leg of Diana Forster's artwork Somewhere to Stay - heading to Callendar House, Falkirk in March. Here's an episode from our podcast archive featuring Diana, before the start of this project: www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...

Hello! We're migrating from other social media, hoping that this place is healthier! We'd really appreciate help rebuilding our 1000s of followers - many thanks! To kick off, here's a link to our latest podcast - Prof. Marsha Henry on 'the end of peacekeeping': www.buzzsprout.com/1717787/epis...