Memoryscapes and Peace

This edited volume introduces memoryscapes to explain how collective memory moves between conflict and healing. Through a dynamic framework and diverse cases, it shows how inclusive, participatory practices can transform violent pasts and foster accountability, reconciliation and sustainable peace.

This edited volume introduces memoryscapes to explain how collective memory moves between conflict and healing. Through a dynamic framework and diverse cases, it shows how inclusive, participatory practices can transform violent pasts and foster accountability, reconciliation and sustainable peace. Readers gain a practical framework to analyze and shape memory work that supports healing, justice and sustainable peace. The book delivers this through its three-gradient model (healing, dissent, resistance), a methodological toolkit, and comparative cases from museums, monuments, heritage and burial sites, refugee camps, media, education and the arts—while confronting politicisation, institutionalisation and post-truth challenges. Intended for researchers, students and practitioners in peace and conflict studies, heritage and memory studies, anthropology, sociology, political science and media/education, as well as museum and memorial professionals, peacebuilders, educators, civil society organisers and policymakers working with contested pasts.