Alice Konig

St Andrews colleague Dr Jon Hesk has published a couple of blogs that reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of Nolan’s Odyssey: In the second… Read More »Reflections on Nolan’s Odyssey

Do you ever study or teach ancient war or peace? If so, read on! The study of ancient history, archaeology, literature and art involves regular… Read More »Teaching Ancient War and Peace

New article in International Political Sociology, by Alice König, Rebecca Sutton, Jana Tabak, Ali Altiok, Tugce Ataci, J Marshall Beier, Mehmet Ilhanli, Patrícia Nabuco Martuscelli Featuring work by young people submitted to Never Such Innocence‘s… Read More »The Adult Gaze: Looking again at children and young people in peace and conflict

APSN director Alice König was recently invited to contribute a blog to Scotland’s Futures Forum, the Scottish Parliament’s futures think-tank. Futures thinking is an important… Read More »Peace Literacy, Peace Politics and Scotland’s Future

Following two years’ of research and development, our new play – Long After the Labyrinth, co-produced with NMT Automatics – is nearly ready! We will… Read More »Preview: Long After the Labyrinth

We’re delighted to announce that we have secured funding to bring Long After the Labyrinth to the Byre Theatre in St Andrews on 12th November… Read More »Coming to the Byre Theatre, St Andrews…

100 New Visions of Ancient Peace and Peacebuilding Does your research touch on ancient peace or peacebuilding in any way? Have you come across an… Read More »Call for Contributions!

In January 2026, the Ancient Peace Studies Network held its inaugural workshop at the University of St Andrews. Researchers from Colombia, the US, Norway, Germany,… Read More »Scoping the field and setting new agenda

One of our network’s members, Dr Stephan Blum, has published a great article in The Conversation which invites us to picture the ancient city of… Read More »Visualising a (more) Peaceful Troy

Alice König A fundamental premise of my research on discourses of war and peace is that stories are world-building: the tales we tell and the… Read More »Long After the Labyrinth

Calling all creatives! Are you an actor, producer, playwright, choreographer or composer? Whether amateur or professional, student or teacher, please join us to explore the… Read More »Performing Peace