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Author:   Peter van den Dungen ,  Syed Sikander Mehdi
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   2024 ed.
ISBN:  

9783031592225

ISBN 10:   3031592220
Pages:   319
Publication Date:   01 January 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Jan Bloch’s International Museum of War and Peace in Lucerne, 1902-1919 (1981).- Chapter 3. Ernst Friedrich’s Anti-War Museum in Berlin, 1925-1933 (1986).- Chapter 4. Peace Museums (1986).- Chapter 5. On the Creative Principles, Message and Thematic Content of a Peace Museum (1993).- Chapter 6. Peace Education: Peace Museums (1999).- Chapter 7. Monuments of a Uniting Europe (2005).- Chapter 8. Preventing Catastrophe: The World’s First Peace Museum (2006).- Chapter 9. Exhibiting Peace: Projects and Initiatives in the Netherlands, 1900-1930s (2008).- Chapter 10. Towards a Global Peace Museum Movement: A Progress Report, 1986-2010 (2009).- Chapter 11. Towards a Bertha von Suttner Peace Museum in Vienna, 1914-2014 (2010).- Chapter 12. The Role of Peace Museums in Promoting a Culture of Peace (2012).- Chapter 13. Projecting Peace Through History and Museums (2013).- Chapter 14. The History of World Peace in 100 Objects: Visualizing Peace in a Peace Museum (2014).- Chapter 15. The Price of Peace: Rare Books of Peace (2000).- Chapter 16. The Role of Museums for Peace in Preventing War and Promoting Remembrance, Historical Truth and Reconciliation (2014).- Chapter 17. Peace Education Through Peace Museums (2015).- Chapter 18. Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Through Anti-Atomic Bomb Museums (2016).- Chapter 19. A Short History of the International Network of Museums for Peace (INMP) on its 25th Anniversary, 1992-2017 (2017).- Chapter 20. Peace Museums and Public Education (2017).- Chapter 21. The Heritage of Peace: The Importance of Peace Museums for the Development of a Culture of Peace (2017).- Chapter 22. Conveying the Reality of War: Vasily Verestchagin – “The greatest painter of the horrors of war that ever lived” (2020).

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Peter van den Dungen was Lecturer in Peace Studies at the University of Bradford (UK) for nearly four decades (1976-2015). He is also the founder of the International Network of Museums for Peace (INMP) and was its general coordinator for 25 years (1992-2017). In addition to his many publications on peace museums, he has published widely on peace history and a culture of peace. In 2021 he received the Peace History Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding scholarship and service to Peace History.

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