Imageandpeace.com warmly welcomes Oliver Richmond among our Friends and Supporters.

Oliver Richmond is a professor of international relations and peace and conflict studies at the University of Manchester. His primary area of expertise is in peace and conflict theory, and in particular its inter-linkages with IR theory. He is currently working on a book entitled Peace in the 21^st Century. This study examines the evolution of the different strategies for maintaining international order in contemporary history and engages with new questions about peace and war raised in the digital era.

He is also leading on a major research project on the ‘Art of Peace’ about community devised arts based peacebuilding.

His previous work was on peace formation and its relation to state formation, statebuilding, and peacebuilding.

This area of interest grew out of his work on local forms of critical agency and resistance, and their role in constructing hybrid or post-liberal forms of peace and states, as well as earlier conflict resolution and conflict management debates in IR, including international mediation, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, and state formation debates.

Imageandpeace.com warmly welcomes Debbie Lisle among our Friends and Supporters.

Debbie Lisle is a professor in politics and international relations at Queen’s University Belfast.

Debbie’s research engages with a number of contemporary debates in International Relations, International Political Sociology and beyond, most notably around issues of difference, mobility, security, travel, visuality, governmentality, biopolitics, materiality, technology, practice and power.

Her earlier work explores the relevance of cultural and visual artifacts (e.g. contemporary travel writing, museum exhibits, photographs, art, war films) to world politics, and argues that the cultural realm tells as much about International Relations as the official documents usually privileged in this context.

Debbie is interested in how war is represented across visual and cultural realms. Her recent work has examined the encounters that tourists have in sites of war, war exhibitions and war museums, and she is currently involved in museum efforts to think critically and creatively about how to represent the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

More recently, Debbie has become interested in how visualities of war operate at the more-than-representational register, for example, how visual technologies are productive of war and conflict (e.g. drones, surveillance, governmentality). 

Imageandpeace.com warmly welcomes David Shim among our Friends and Supporters.

Dr. David Shim is Senior Lecturer and Master Program Coordinator at the Department of International Relations and International Organization of the University of Groningen and visiting researcher at the Chair of International Politics and Conflict Studies of the Bundeswehr University Munich.

David is interested in the visual and spatial dimension of global politics and works at the intersection of International Relations, Geography and Area Studies.

David’s work on different visual media—comics, film, photography, satellite imagery—has contributed to the study of visual politics in the field of International Relations. He has translated some of his research activities into teaching practice on his blog Visual Global Politics.

His work appeared in International Political Sociology, International Studies Review, Geoforum, Global Discourse, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Asian Perspective and Review of International Studies. His book Visual Politics and North Korea is available at Routledge.

David is also a member of the editorial board of the Korea Journal.