Peace Studies

Bibliographies

• African studies companion online
  
  An annotated guide which lists print and electronic information resources in African studies. Provides many links to online resources. ... [more]
• Online bibliography Theology and Peace
  
  The online bibliography Theology and Peace contains more than 100,000 titles subject indexed using descriptors. Literature relevant ... [more] to research into peace ethics from the individual disciplines of theology and other sciences ahs been taken into account. [less]

Data, statistics and survey results

• United Nations Statistics Division
  
  Access to a wide variety of UN statistical sources.
• UNESCO Institute for Statistics
  
  Global and internationally comparable statistics on education, science, technology, culture and communication.
• International financial statistics online service
  
  The IFS database contains time series data from 1948. Usage info: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.
• Infonation Advanced
  
  Statistical data from Member States of the United Nations.
• Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA)
  
  Quantitative data on American and International religion; includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, ... [more] and religious groups. [less]
• LAPOP : Latin American Public Opinion Project
  
• Polling the nations
  
  More than 12,000 national, state, local and special surveys, conducted by 700 polling organizations in the United States and 70 other ... [more] countries from 1986 through the present. Usage info: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users. [less]
• Source OECD
  
  Includes 3 sections: studies by theme, periodicals, and statistics.
• WDI online (see World development indicators)
  Coverage: 1960- (where data are available)
  
  WDI Online is a comprehensive database on development data covering more than 700 development indicators, with time series for more ... [more] than 200 countries, and 18 regional and income groups. Includes population, income, social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators starting in 1960 where data are available. [less]
• World development indicators
  Coverage: 1960- (where data are available)
  
  WDI Online is a comprehensive database on development data covering more than 700 development indicators, with time series for more ... [more] than 200 countries, and 18 regional and income groups. Includes population, income, social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators starting in 1960 where data are available. [less]

Directories

• Foreign government resources on the Web
  
  A mega site covering all kinds of information related to foreign governments, NGOs and IGOs, worldwide.

Encyclopedias

• Encyclopaedia Britannica online
  
  Consists of a fully searchable and browsable collection of authoritative references, including Britannica's latest article database, ... [more] articles not yet in the print Britannica encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster's collegiate dictionary (tenth edition), and the Britannica book of the year. [less]
• Encyclopedia of race and racism
  
  Examines the anthropological, sociological, historical, economic, and scientific theories of race and racism in the modem era. Delves ... [more] into the historic origins of ideas of race and racism and explores their social and scientific consequences. Includes biographies of significant theorists, as well as political and social leaders and notorious racists. [less]
• Encyclopedia of world cultures
  

Government information

• Access UN
  Coverage: 1945-
  
  Indexes current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications and includes full-text of several thousand UN documents. ... [more]
• Foreign government resources on the Web
  
  A mega site covering all kinds of information related to foreign governments, NGOs and IGOs, worldwide.
• Digital National Security Archive
  
  Contains a comprehensive collection of primary documents, including more than 80,000 of the most important declassified documents regarding ... [more] critical U.S. policy decisions. [less]
• Arab-Israeli relations, 1917-1970
  
  Fully searchable database of primary source documents from the British National Archives that chronicle the politics, wars, administration, ... [more] and diplomacy surrounding the Palestine Mandate and the Arab-Israeli conflict. (The first in Cengage Learning\U+2019\s new series The Middle East Online.) [less]
• Brazilian Government Document Digitization Project
  English interface
  Portuguese interface
  
  Provides Internet access to digitized executive branch serial documents originally issued by Brazil's national government between 1821 ... [more] and 1993, and by its provincial government from the earliest available for each province to the end of the Empire to 1889. [less]
• Catalog of U.S. government publications
  Coverage: 1976-
  
  Finding tool for electronic and print publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the U.S. government. Provides ... [more] direct links to publications that are available online. With more than 500,000 records generated since July 1976, the catalog will grow to include records for publications dating back to the late 1800s. Online counterpart of the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications (printed version ceased with Dec. 2004). The Monthly Catalog should be consulted for pre-1976 indexing. [less]
• Foreign relations of the United States
  Coverage: v.40(1969/1976)-
  
  This series "presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic ... [more] activity" as compiled by the U.S. Department of State. [less]
• GPO access
  
  Provides free electronic access to information products produced by the U.S. Federal Government's legislative, executive, and judicial ... [more] branches. Information provided on this site is the official, published version. [less]
• Serial set maps, 1817-1980
  Coverage: years 1872-1927, as of Feb. 2009
  
  Specialized search module for maps from U.S. Congressional Serial Set, allowing focused searches on geographic areas, subjects the ... [more] maps represent, their titles, and associated names. Serial Set Maps will eventually cover the full scope of the Readex U.S. Congressional Serial Set. [less]
• THOMAS
  
  Provides free access to a wide range of legislative information on the Congress, including the full text of the Congressional Record ... [more] and bills for the 103rd (1993-1994) to the present Congress. [less]
• U.S. Congressional serial set, 1817-1980
  Coverage: years 1817-1972, as of June 2009
  
  "Search or browse the Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, originally published in approximately ... [more] 13,800 bound volumes."--Archive of Americana search page. Serial set maps are separately searchable. [less]
  Serial set maps, 1817-1980
  
• UNESCO Institute for Statistics
  
  Global and internationally comparable statistics on education, science, technology, culture and communication.
• United Nations Statistics Division
  
  Access to a wide variety of UN statistical sources.
• Westlaw campus research
  
  Online research service for news, business and law-related resources. Selected newspapers, newswires, trade journals, Hoover's company ... [more] records, SEC filings, law reviews and journals, the encyclopedia American Jurisprudence, and selected primary law sources. [less]

Guides and finding aids

• Beyond intractability
  
  This is "a free knowledge base" for developing "constructive approaches to destructive conflict" that are often described as intractable. ... [more]
• CIAO: Columbia international affairs online
  Coverage: 1991-
  
  Contains searchable full text of international affairs working papers from university research institutes, conference proceedings, ... [more] policy briefs, economic indicators, foundation-funded research projects and links to international affairs centers, institutes, and further resources. [less]
• CQ researcher
  Coverage: 1991:Jan.4-
  
  Covers the most current and controversial issues of the day with summaries, pros and cons, bibliographies and more.
• CRInfo : the conflict resolution information source
  
  "CRInfo is a free, online clearinghouse, indexing ... peace- and conflict resolution-related Web pages, books, articles, ... and current ... [more] news articles." --Introduction. [less]
• INCORE : International Conflict Research Institute
  
  "Combining research, education and comparative analysis, INCORE addresses the causes and consequences of conflict in Northern Ireland ... [more] and internationally and promotes conflict resolution management strategies."--About INCORE. [less]
• International Relations and Security Network (ISN)
  
  An electronic clearinghouse for resources in the fields of security and defense studies, peace and conflict research, and international ... [more] relations provided by the Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research, Zurich, Switzerland. [less]
• Keesing's world news archive
  Coverage: 1931-
  
  Provides access to archive of original, accurate and objective news articles providing digestible but detailed summaries of world events, ... [more] drawn from a wide range of press and other sources in a variety of languages. Digitized version of Keesing's contemporary archives, 1931-1986, and Keesing's record of world events, 1987- [less]
• Transcend : a peace and development network
  
  "TRANSCEND INTERNATIONAL [an initiative of Johan Galtung and Fumio Nishimura] connects autonomous individuals and centers working on ... [more] peace by peaceful means ..."--Home page. [less]

Maps and GIS

• A to Z maps online
  
  "... database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, ... [more] physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps."--About page. [less]
• United Nations Cartographic Section web site
  
  Maps and geographic information resources.
• Blank & Outline Maps
  
  Blank outline maps of the countries and continents of the world.
• All the Worlds Maps
  
  A compilation of each nation's maps, including cities.
• Google Earth
  
  Free high resolution mapping software with satellite imagery. Download required.
• Serial set maps, 1817-1980
  Coverage: years 1872-1927, as of Feb. 2009
  
  Specialized search module for maps from U.S. Congressional Serial Set, allowing focused searches on geographic areas, subjects the ... [more] maps represent, their titles, and associated names. Serial Set Maps will eventually cover the full scope of the Readex U.S. Congressional Serial Set. [less]

Reviews (book, film, etc.)

• LexisNexis academic
  
  Provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications, covering current news, business ... [more] information, company directories, federal and state laws, regulations, legal cases, etc. [less]
• Academic search premier (EBSCO)
  Coverage: 1975-
  
  "... scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database"--About page. Also includes indexing and abstracts for articles from additional ... [more] periodicals. Search can be limited to book reviews. [less]
• America, history and life (EBSCO)
  Coverage: 1954-
  
  Provides abstracts of scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the ... [more] present. Search can be limited to book reviews. Usage info: Licensed for 6 simultaneous users. [less]
• Expanded academic ASAP
  Coverage: 1980-
  
  Provides indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for 3,500+ scholarly journals and general interest periodicals embracing all academic ... [more] disciplines (citations only for The New York Times). Search can be limited to book reviews. [less]
• TLS, the Times literary supplement centenary archive
  Coverage: 1902 to 1990
  
  Fully searchable archive of the TLS in image format and full-page context, with the identities of contributors, who were published ... [more] anonymously until 1974, disclosed. [less]