Below is a list of links related to the study of conflict. The list includes data on political and economic variables for countries that have experienced internal violent conflicts; names of and information on organizations and institutes that are working in the area of conflict resolution; and sites that provide historical background and analyses on specific cases of internal conflict.

 

 

 

( http://www.africanews.org/)
A very good news site with information about numerous conflicts in Africa.

( http://www.gov.harvard.edu/research/rbates/)
Political, economic, and conflict data on Sub-Saharan African countries is available on this site. The data consists of compilations from other sources, but some original data will be added to the site in the year 2000.

( http://www.amnesty.org/)
Amnesty International's site contains information on human rights and conflicts worldwide.

( http://www.soros.org/burma.html)
The Burma Project from the Open Society Institute at the Soros Foundation reports on Burmese politics.

( http://www.cgsd.rutgers.edu/)
A very useful site from Rutgers University which also includes a discussion group on civil war termination. The site is associated with Professor Licklider's research program.

(http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/)
The Center for International Development and Conflict Management at the University of Maryland includes information on research on the incidence of war and conflict, the search for ethical meaning in a mosaic world, and the definition of development. Many useful links.

Center for International Development Data Sets, Harvard University( http://www.cid.harvard.edu/data.htm)
Data and other information that can be of relevance to conflict researchers.

(http://www.cid.harvard.edu/)
A useful list of researchers, research topics and papers of interest. Includes papers on ethnic conflict.

( http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html)
The CIA’s World Factbook gives an abbreviated political history, data on socio-economic indicators, and geography for all countries.

Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA)(http://www.nsd.uib.no/cessda/europe.html)
The Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) promotes the acquisition, archiving and distribution of electronic data for social science teaching and research in Europe. Look there for lots of interesting social science data.

( http://www2.hawaii.edu/~rummel/)
This site includes data on violence from a number of countries spanning a vast time period. Although some data are out-of-date and the organization is slightly confusing, several useful variables can be found. Data available in read-only Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.

(http://www.yale.edu/gsp/)
Part of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies.

( http://www.hrw.org/)
The premier U.S. human rights organization, Human Rights Watch provides online information and reports relating to ongoing and past conflicts.

( http://www.igc.org/igc/)
This site offers information on a number of recent conflicts and has good links to PEACENET, ECONET, and CONFLICTNET.

( http://www.iansa.org)
IANSA’s website provides additional information and links related to issues of small arms.

( http://www.international-alert.org)
International Alert is concerned with violent conflict within countries and with the abuse of individual and collective human rights in conflict situations. The website allows access to reports on these issues and contains a useful set of links.

International Crisis Behavior (ICB) Data Archive( http://www.colorado.edu/IBS/GAD/spacetime/data/ICB.html)
Latest release of data on international crisis behavior involving members of the international system, spanning the period 1918 to 1994. The site refers to a noteworthy massive study by Michael Brecher and Jonathan Wilkenfeld, A Study of Crisis (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1997).

( http://www.crisisweb.org/)
The International Crisis Group. Project information on Algeria, Bosnia, Cambodia, Central Africa, and the South Balkans are available on this site.

(http://www.ipacademy.org/)
The International Peace Academy (IPA) is an independent international organization dedicated to promoting the peaceful settlement of armed conflicts between and within states. It is active in several areas of conflict research, most notably United Nations peacekeeping, post-conflict peacebuilding and conflict prevention. They are currently engaged in a project on "Economic Agendas in Civil Wars."

( http://www.prio.no)
PRIO is one of the Bank’s collaborating partners. The web page provides information on the research conducted and allows downloading of papers and reports.

The Journal of Conflict Resolution publishes some of the best research on formal and quantitative studies of conflict.

(http://jpr.sagepub.com/)
The Journal of Peace Research publishes some of the best research on formal and quantitative studies of conflict.

( http://dodgson.ucsd.edu/lij/)
The Lijphart Elections Archive, housed at the University of California, San Diego campus, is a research collection of district level election results for approximately 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries.

( http://www.nisat.org)
NISAT maintains an online database on small arms transfers. The website also links to related pages and reports.

( http://pss.la.psu.edu/MID_DATA.HTM)
The Peace Science Society, part of the Correlates of War Project (COW), holds data online on inter-state militarized disputes (MIDs).

Penn World Table
(http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/)
Heston and Summers’ Penn World tables version 5.6 reports on a number of economic variables for most countries from 1950 until 1992.

(http://www.systemicpeace.org/polity/polity4.htm)
The home page of the newest version of the Polity data (Polity98). This is the best available source of quantitative information on democracy for the greatest number of states in the world and for the longest time period.

(http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/)
The Small Arms Survey conducts research and disseminates information on all aspects of small arms and light weapons.

(http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/finance/)
Visit the site of the Social Finance Unit of the International Labor Organization for information on the issue of Microfinance in Post-conflict Countries and for a description of a Technical workshop held on this topic in cooperation with the UNCHR.

( http://www.sipri.se)

Conducts research on questions of conflict and cooperation. The SIPRI Yearbook is a leading source on military expenditure and arms transfers. Many of SIPRI’s datasets may be downloaded from their website.

( http://www.polarizationandconflict.org)
The project’s web page includes a set of downloadable academic research papers on issues related to conflict, with a substantial analytical content.

( http://www.umich.edu/~cowproj/)
The home page for the Correlates of War Project, which is at the core of research into armed conflict both at the inter- and intra-state level.

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research( http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/index.html)
A premier source of political science data; includes data on conflict, both domestic and international, as well as other types of violence and crime; references to academic papers and authors linked to the data sources.

The Secretary General's Report on Violence in Africa( http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/sgreport/index.html)

( http://www.yale.edu/unsy)
Yale is co-managing projects on case studies and data on civil wars with the World Bank.

The WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources
(http://www.etown.edu/vl/)
This section of the WWW Virtual Library presents over 1750 annotated links in a range of international affairs topics.

( http://www.unhchr.ch/)
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights provides a wide array of information on human rights internationally.

( http://www.unhchr.ch/)
One of the best sources of information on refugee-related issues.

(http://research.yale.edu/iss/unsy.html)
The home page of Yale's United Nations Studies program. The site includes several papers and data-sets, including papers on the Democratic Peace and International War by Professor Bruce Russett and his associates.

University of Michigan Documents Center( http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/foreign.html)
The University of Michigan Documents Center lists a number of foreign government resources on the Web with information pertinent to conflicts.

(http://wps.cfc.forces.gc.ca/en/index.php)
The home page of a very useful site -- with many links -- by the Information Resource Center of the Canadian Forces College.

This is the site for the Information Resource center of the Canadian Forces College, containing information on recent civil wars.

World Institute for Development Economics Research(http://www.ksu.edu/economics/nafwayne/oup2000.htm)
The United Nations University home page. They have started a research program on "The Origins of Humanitarian Emergencies."

The premier journal of International Politics, published by Princeton's Center of International Studies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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