Towards a Global Peace Museum Movement: A Progress Report, 1986–2010 (2009)

This article documents the spread of peace museums following the first such survey published in 1986. The emergence of conferences, networks, and publications since then suggests that the concept of peace museums has become widely accepted and that it has become possible to refer to a global peace museum movement. The processes of institutionalization and professionalization in the field in the 1990s are described. A comparison is drawn between the emergence and development of peace research and, a generation earlier, that of peace museums. A tribute is paid to Dr. Young Seek Choue, founder-chancellor of Kyung Hee University in Seoul who initiated the World Encyclopedia of Peace in which the 1986 article appeared. The present article was published in the 25th anniversary edition of the annual publication of the University’s Graduate Institute of Peace Studies.