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

Section 1. Setting the Scene

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

by Joyce Apsel

2. Understanding “Museums for Peace”

by Clive Barrett

Section 2. The Praxis of Museums for Peace

3. Museums for Peace and Reconciliation in East Asia

by Kazuyo Yamane and Clive Barrett

4. The Africanized Peace Museum Movement and the Significance of Cultural Heritage

by Kimberly Baker and Munuve Mutisya

5. Gandhi and Peace in the Museums of the World

by Elisabetta Colagrossi

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

by 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

by Jane Joo Hyeon Lee and Roy Tamashiro 

8. Japanese War Memory: Ongoing Challenges of Remembering and Forgetting

by Satoko Oka Norimatsu

9. Witnessing, Requiem, Reconciliation: Toward a Model for Curating Extreme Violence at Museums for Peace

by Roy Tamashiro

Section 4. The Future of Museums for Peace

10. Concluding Voices

by Roy Tamashiro, Clive Barrett and  Joyce Apsel

Biography

Joyce Apsel is Clinical Professor in Liberal Studies at New York University (USA) and President, the Institute for Study of Genocide. She is author of Introducing Peace Museums (2016), and co-editor of Museums and Sites of Persuasion (2020); Genocide Matters (2014) and Museums for Peace: Transforming Cultures (2012).

Clive Barrett is Chair of Trustees of The Peace Museum, Bradford (UK) with 30 years of engagement with peace museums. His publications include Subversive Peacemakers (2014), and contributions to A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Empire (2020) and the Blackwell Companion to Religion and Peace (2022).

Roy Tamashiro is Professor Emeritus in Multidisciplinary Studies at Webster University (USA). His recent publications include contributed chapters to Building Positive Peace (2023); Oral History and Qualitative Methodologies (2022); Peace Journeys (2019); Museums and Sites of Persuasion (2019); and Pilgrimage as Transformative Process (2018).

... Museums For Peace: In Search of History, Memory, and Change is a foundational new text: immediately essential for any serious review of contemporary peacebuilding. Its analysis challenges readers to rethink our strategic approaches to using history and memory to foster effective social change... Museums for Peace is required reading for more than museum studies or peace studies professionals. It rings a bell of hope for all those seeking nonviolent futures ahead.

—MATT MEYER,
Secretary-General, International Peace Research Association;
Senior Research Scholar, University of Massachusetts/Amherst (USA)

 

This publication is crucial in our time. It brings together different voices touching on our deepest quest and struggles for PEACE, over decades, across geopolitical boundaries, capturing global complexities of history,  memory, and social transformation. This respice–prospice reminds us of who we are!  Are we ready to join hands and hearts to embrace a living Museums for Peace Movement that realizes universal values, humanness, and ubuntu?

— MARION KEIM,
UNESCO Chair, Sport, Development, Peace and Olympic Education;
Professor, University of the Western Cape (South Africa)

 

Museums for Peace: In Search of History, Memory, and Change is a critical, profound, and important study of the links between the mission of peacebuilding and the challenges facing us today in the worlds of museums, heritage-making, history-telling,  and memory-keeping.

– IRATXE MOMOITIO ASTORKIA
Director, Guernika Peace Museum (Spain);
Coordinator, International Network of Museums for Peace 

This volume marks an important contribution to the growing scholarship on museums for peace. With authors and examples from across the globe, it promises to deepen our understanding of the potential of museums to advocate for and promote peace, while also acknowledging their limitations. 

– AMY SODARO
Author, Exhibiting Atrocity: Memorial Museums and
the Politics of Past Violence

Museums for Peace: In Search of History, Memory, and Change is an important addition to the literature on a subject that is still relatively little explored. The editors and contributing authors present and analyse a wide variety of museums in Africa, Asia, and the USA in what are highly interesting and original essays opening up new perspectives. Together with introductory chapters and concluding reflections, the volume is destined to become a key reference work in the field.

— PETER VAN DEN DUNGEN,
Founding General Coordinator, International
Network of Museums for Peace