Scenes from yesterday! Thank you to all who joined the talk! 🙏

📣 Today! Join us! 🕊️

From our podcast studio! Stay tuned for a new episode on the 12th of every month! peace.lucdh.eu/podcast/

And the Peace Movements Project goes to… #Tunisia 🇹🇳 We’re currently in Tunis, tracing the history of peace movements in Tunisia and across the Maghreb—through archives, libraries, and living memories. Many more stories and voices coming soon—so stay tuned!

How does vegetarianism link to issues of peace and (non)violence? Join us for the next session of Peace Histories with Julia Hauser on October 6th! All are welcome! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

We screened this movies 1966 predecessor (of sorts), The War Game, earlier this year (www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2025/...). When Threads aired, The War Games had still not been shown on TV, deemed too disconcerting to show to the public. Very grim films, both.

Brilliant new article by @racheljcollett.bsky.social in @mbhjournal.bsky.social further expanding knowledge & understanding of #womensgrassrootsactivism. Congratulations Rachel 👏🥳. @womenshistnet.bsky.social #skystorians academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

📣 New podcast episode! Listen as Elisabeth Forster and Floris de Ruiter discuss peace discourses in modern China. Highly recommended! 🎧 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/podcasts/...

📣 Interesting article! 👇

Join us in Leiden next week as a new semester of the Peace Histories Seminar kicks off! All are welcome! Becky Alexis-Martin will speak on the long aftermath of the Kiritimati (Christmas Island) nuclear weapons tests conducted by the UK and USA between 1957 and 1962.

My op-ed in the @chicagomaroon.bsky.social on the University of Chicago’s appalling plans to gut the humanities and possibly eliminate the South Asian studies department chicagomaroon.com/48353/viewpo...

See the blog linked in this thread for historical context on these recent developments, including quotes from Greenham Women’s own experiences of non-violence direct action 👇

Check out this amazing global history resource! 🙌

The second episode of our podcast is live! Join us as Francisca de Haan's stories of women in peace movements unfold much larger histories of women's political mobilization - and of the historians who pioneered this research! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/podcasts/...

Dataset cleaning may not be glamorous, but it needs to happen! 💪 And we may all be at our own laptops, but it is sooooo much better to do it together!

This was such a wonderful gathering! Thanks @riakapoor.bsky.social, @drmargottudor.bsky.social, @jessicareinisch.bsky.social & Daniel Laqua!

July 12th is the International Day of Hope. What better day to officially launch the Peace History podcast? We have SO MANY exciting guests in the pipeline, so don't forget to subscribe on Spotify (open.spotify.com/show/5KeJIye...) or Apple Podcasts (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...).

The Peace Movements Project is in Dakar! @iias.bsky.social have outdone themselves - what a conference!

Collaborative Research Week in the incredible collections of @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social. If only we could do this all the time! Stay tuned for the results ✍️ 📝

Cheerful scenes from the @leidenhumanities.bsky.social podcast studio! Season 1 will drop soon! 🎙️

Friends, do check out this new piece by our project team member Sander van der Horst!

📣 This afternoon in Leiden: Subjective dimensions of peace- and statebuilding across Africa. @timglawion.bsky.social on ways in which peace making is imagined, and how it relates to the state. Hosted by the African Studies Centre, details here: ascleiden.nl/news/ascl-se...

Friends! Please join us for the final Peace Histories Seminar of the semester. We're thrilled to host Maria-Kyveli Mavrokordopolou on anti-nuclearism in art! Details here: www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2025/... #peace #decolonization

From the archives: anti-nuclear protest in Kyiv, 1982.

The next session of our Peace Histories Seminar Series is one week away! All are welcome - come by and discuss changing concepts of war and peace in China with us! 🕊️🌎 www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2025/...

Hi! 👋The Peace Movements Project has joined BlueSky! We're a global history research group, studying how peace movements across the decolonizing world have connected to international peace organizations from the early 1900s onwards.