Table of Contents

Introduction - Diana Walters and Daniel Laven and Peter Davis
The Heritage of Peace: the Importance of peace museums for the development of a culture of peace - Peter van den Dungen
A conversation with Seth Frankel: designing exhibitions for peace - Seth Frankel
Public spaces for strangers: the foundation for peacebuilding and implications for heritage institutions - Elaine Gurian
Can museums build peace? The role of museums in peacebuilding and internationalism - Diana Walters
Information and Communication Technologies for heritage and peacebuilding - Jasper Visser
A conversation with David Fleming: the role of National Museums Liverpool in social justice and peacebuilding - David Fleming
A conversation with Sultan Somjee: conflict and peacebuilding in Kenya - Sultan Somjee
Museum, peace and reconciliation: the impact of the Balkan Museum Network - Aida Vezic
Diversity, leadership and peacebuilding in museums in the Western Balkans - Felicity Gibling and Michèle Taylor
Disturbing the peace: museums, democracy and conflict avoidance - Bernadette Lynch
Transforming conflict through peace cultures - Timothy Ndaruga
Rethinking heritage from peace: reflections from the Palestinian-Israeli context - Feras Hammami and Daniel Laven
A conversation with Will Glendinning: diversity challenges in Northern Ireland - Will Glendinning
A conversation with Yongtanit Pimonsathean: managing conflict in Thailand - Yongtanit Pimonsathean
Challenging the roots of prejudice: the Monte Sole case study - Elena Monicelli
Mau Mau: the divisive heritage of liberation struggle in Kenya - Lotte Hughes
The heritage of geopolitical borders as peace tourism attractions - Alon Gelbman
Rebuilding the broken: regional restoration camps as a meeting platform in the Western Balkans - Lejla Hadzic
Rebuilding the broken: regional restoration camps as a meeting platform in the Western Balkans - Jonathan Eaton
Conservation or reconciliation? Industrial heritage practices at a turning point - Bosse Lagerqvist
A conversation with Saleem Ali: environmental challenges and conflict resolution - Saleem Ali
List of contributors

About the Author

Peter Davis is Emeritus Professor of Museology in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University, UK. His research interests relate to the connections between place, nature, heritage, communities and sustainability. LOTTE HUGHES is an independent scholar and Honourary Associate of The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. Peter Davis is Emeritus Professor of Museology in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University, UK. His research interests relate to the connections between place, nature, heritage, communities and sustainability.

Reviews

The need for all cultural and educational institutions to respond to UNESCO's call for 'moral and intellectual solidarity' in support of peace and reconciliation at every level, from the local to global, becomes more evident by the day. This volume is hopeful, in that it contains inspiring accounts drawn from a vast network of cultural institutions and workers who are indeed doing this every day. Some in the face of almost insuperable odds...Highly readable.
*MUSEUM MANAGEMENT AND CURATORSHIP*

The volume offers a broad spectrum of means engagement of museum and heritage actors with peace-building aims. Its greatest strength is the variety of expertise represented, these include museum curators, academics, and activists but also a business psychologist, an exhibition designer, an architect, an environmental planner and consultants in innovative training, participation design as well as persons leading NGO work.
*HERITAGE AND SOCIETY*

[T]he book is an encouraging collection of ideas and initiatives that explore the constructive role of heritage in making peace in the minds of humankind.
*ANTIQUITY*