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International Security / Conflict Studies: General
- ABC Relieflinks: The main purpose of this site is to compile useful Internet links with background information, up to date information and practical information for people who are working in the field of development aid and emergency relief.
- Accord: An International Review of Peace Initiatives: Provides detailed narrative and rigorous analysis on specific war and peace processes, combining readability with practical relevance.
- AlertNet: Reuter Foundation's news and communications service for the emergency relief community. Contains news stories and press releases from leading relief agencies.
- Asia-Pacific Defense Forum: a professional military journal published quarterly by the Commander in Chief of the United States Pacific Command to provide an international forum for military personnel of the Asian and Pacific areas.
- Conflict Information Consortium, University of Colorado: a comprehensive gateway at the University of Colorado, featuring information on constructive approaches to difficult conflicts. Note their online Working Papers, and Conflict Resolution Information Source, an searchable database of news and basic, topical, and specialized information sources on conflict resolution, as well as networking and education in the subject.
- Conflict Research Consortium, University of Colorado: a comprehensive gateway at the University of Colorado , featuring information on constructive approaches to difficult conflicts. Note their online Working Papers, and Conflict Resolution Information Source, an searchable database of news and basic, topical, and specialized information sources on conflict resolution, as well as networking and education in the subject.
- Conflict Resolution Information Source: From the Conflict Research Consortium, University of Colorado, an searchable database of news and basic, topical, and specialized information sources on conflict resolution, as well as networking and education in the subject.
- Correlates of War Project: the COW project is an ongoing effort to study and explore the conditions associated with the outbreak of war, as well as with the conditions surrounding militarized disputes.
- Defense Monitor: Journal of the Center for Defense Information, USA
- Ethnic Conflict Research Digest: publishes peer reviews of recently published books, journal articles and research papers on the dynamics and management of ethnic conflict.
- Facts on International Relations and Security Trends: FIRST is a joint project of the International Relations and Security Network (ISN) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The integrated database system contains clearly documented information from research institutes around the world. It covers areas in the field of international relations and security, such as hard facts on armed conflicts and peace keeping, arms production and trade, military expenditure, armed forces and conventional weapons holding, nuclear weapons, chronology, statistics and other reference data.
- Freedom, Democracy, Peace; Power, Democide, and War: a massive and searchable site with hundreds of documents on these topics from the rich empirical studies of the whole career of Professor R. J. Rummel.The theme is “The more freedom, the less violence.”
- Global Beat Resource Service for the Global Journalist: news and analysis of various international issues, including Balkan Conflicts, East Asian Security, EU Integration & Enlargement, Middle East, NATO Expansion, Nuclear Weapons & Proliferation, South Asian Security, US Defense Policy.
- GlobalSecurity.Org: Launched in 2000, GlobalSecurity.org is the most comprehensive and authoritative online destination for those in need of both reliable background information and breaking news.
- The Human Security Gateway: is a research and information database regrouping electronic and bibliographic resources on human security. The Gateway is a joint initiative of the Human Security Centre (HSC) and the Canadian Consortium on Human Security (CCHS), both located at the University of British Columbia. Initial development of the Gateway was funded by Foreign Affairs Canada. Ongoing support is provided by the governments of Canada, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
- Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity INCORE: Central resource on the internet for those in the area of conflict resolution and ethnic conflict.
- International Crisis Group: Variety of current reports on conflicts from ICG´s political analysts and field researchers several countries.
- International Relations and Security Network: Among the services offered are: an annotated links library, a limited area search tool (ISN LASE), a selection of resources on current world affairs, and specialized fact databases. ISN also develops educational modules in the fields mentioned and acts as a platform for networking, dialogue, and cooperation within the international security community.
- International Relations and Security Network Limited Area Search Engine: Very powerful, to conduct a search in several languages among a large number of Web sites on international relations and security policy, with the Eurospider system. Sites indexed are those of international organizations, governmental bodies, recognized research institutions/think tanks, NGOs, and scholarly journals dealing with foreign affairs and security policy. From the International Relations and Security Network and the Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research.
- International Security Policy & Military Affairs: Information Sources: From the Lehman Library of Columbia University a selective guide to library materials and Internet resources on international security policy and military affairs.
- Joint Forces Quarterly: Published for the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, by the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, to promote understanding of the integrated employment of land, sea, air, space, and special operations forces. The journal focuses on joint doctrine, coalition warfare, contingency planning, combat operations conducted by the unified commands, and joint force development.
- MERLN Digital Collections: a portal to military education research materials that are digitized by MERLN participants. It currently contains student papers, lectures, conference proceedings, personal paper collections, reports and legislation.
- Military Education and Research Library Network (MERLN): The searchable joint site of military education libraries in the United States (mainly) and Europe, providing access to the library holdings and online information resources of the “largest and most comprehensive collections of military information resources in the world.”
- Military Review: Professional journal of the U.S. army. The publication focuses on concepts, doctrine and warfighting at the tactical and operational levels of war and supports the education, training, doctrine development and integration missions of the Combined Arms Center and the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth.
- Navigating The Military Internet: From the Dudley Knox Library, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, links to major United States military Internet sites, plus IGOs, think tanks, and research centers in the security issues area.
- Parameters: Journal of the U.S. Army War College, on “the art and science of land warfare, joint and combined matters, national and international security affairs, military strategy, military leadership and management, military history, military ethics, and other topics of significant and current interest to the U.S. Army and the Department of Defense.” Full-text online, site search, archives.
- Peace, Conflict and Development
- Peace Magazine: Published by Canadian Disarmament Information Service (CANDIS): a nonprofit organization.
- Peace and Justice Studies Association: the Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) is a non-profit organization that was formed in 2001 as a result of a merger of the Consortium on Peace research, Education and Development (COPRED) and the Peace Studies Association (PSA). Both organizations provided leadership in the broadly defined field of peace, conflict and justice studies.
- Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS), University of Illinois: An interdisciplinary, research, teaching, and public service program. The program's primary areas of focus are: energy uses of technology and security; South Asia; democratization in Russia and Eastern Europe; globalization; human rights; and military history.
- Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) debate: Aims to broaden the discussion of today's putative military revolution and refocus it on outstanding issues. They try to facilitate access to the best full-text resources and online research about the RMA that the Web has to offer, featuring both advocates and skeptics of all stripes.
- Review of International Social Questions: RISQ is a think tank for Critical Research and Public Opinion on World Affairs. An independent association of scholars, journalists, policy makers, and activists who seek to render foreign policy, broadly conceived, more responsive to the demands of a globalising world. Currently, there are about 30 RISQ Associates, each with his or her specific expertise, concerns, and (research) interests.
- Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
- SearchMil.com: Searches nearly one million military (.mil) Web pages, indexed and ranked in order of popularity.
- Stratfor.com: From a “private intelligence company engaged in open-source information monitoring,” posts free news and analysis about international political, social, military, and economic events, hotspots, and trends. Forecasts and a free e-mail newsletter are available.
- Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database: a project of the Oregon State University Department of Geosciences
- United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
- UNDP Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery: When a sudden crisis arises, relief agencies, under United Nations leadership, develop a programme to respond to urgent needs and thereby help stabilise the country. UNDP supports its partners in these efforts through ERD's collaboration with the UN system headquarters units.
- WWW Virtual Library: Peace, Conflict Resolution, and International Security