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.
The “Polarization and Conflict” project at the Institute of Economic Analysis (IAE), Barcelona (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.

International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) (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.

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) (http://www.sipri.se)
SIPRI style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">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.

International Alert>> (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.

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

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

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

The United Nations Studies Center of Yale University (http://www.yale.edu/unsy)
Yale is co-managing projects on case studies and data on civil wars with the World Bank.

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

Joint EC-WB website on South East Europe Reconstruction and Development (http://www.seerecon.org)
The European Commission-World Bank website includes press releases, speeches, documents, program information, and business and investment opportunities.

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.

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.

Human Rights Watch (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.

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

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

International Crisis Group (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.

CIA World Factbook (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.

War, Peace, and Security; Canadian Forces Guide (http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/index.html)
This is the site for the Information Resource center of the Canadian Forces College, containing information on recent civil wars.

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.

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

Freedom, Democracy, Peace; Power, Democide, and War (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.

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)

Peace Science Society (International) (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).

Africa Research Program (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.

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

Penn World Tables
(http://datacentre.chass.utoronto.ca:5680/pwt/docs/retrieve.html)
Heston and Summers’ Penn World tables version 5.6 reports on a number of economic variables for most countries from 1950 until 1992.

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

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

Center for Global Security and Democracy (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.

Center for International Development, Harvard University (http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/CID/)
A useful list of researchers, research topics and papers of interest. Includes papers on ethnic conflict.

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.

United Nations Studies at Yale (http://www.yale.edu/unsy/index.htm)
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.

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."

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (http://www.unhchr.ch/)
One of the best sources of information on refugee-related issues.

International Peace Academy (IPA)(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."

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.

State-Failure Project, University of Maryland(http://www.bsos.umd.edu/cidcm/stfail/)
This is the home page of the "State-Failure Project." The site lists comparative information on cases of total and partial state failure that began between 1955 and 1996 in independent countries with populations greater than 500,000. The list was compiled from multiple sources by researchers at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM), University of Maryland and has been updated and revised with input from area and subject-matter specialists.

War, Peace, and Security World Wide Web server (http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/index.html)
The home page of a very useful site -- with many links -- by the Information Resource Center of the Canadian Forces College

The Correlates of War Project, University of Michigan (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. >

Richard Tucker, Vanderbilt University (http://www.vanderbilt.edu/~rtucker/methods/data/)
A very useful collection of web-sites and data-sets of interest to conflict researchers and others doing research in areas of political science. The site belongs to Richard Tucker at Vanderbilt University.

Lijphart Elections Archive, University of California, San Diego (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

Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland (http://www.bsos.umd.edu/cidcm/)
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.

Policy98 Project (http://www.bsos.umd.edu/cidcm/polity/)
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.

World Politics, Center of International Studies, Princeton University (http://www.wws.princeton.edu:80/world_politics/)
The premier journal of International Politics, published by Princeton's Center of International Studies.

Journal of Conflict Resolution (http://www.library.yale.edu/un/un2f1a1.htm)
The Journal of Conflict Resolution publishes some of the best research on formal and quantitative studies of conflict.

Journal of Peace Research (http://www.sagepub.co.uk/frame.html?http%3A//www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/j0168.html)
The Journal of Peace Research publishes some of the best research on formal and quantitative studies of conflict.

Social Finance Unit, International Labour Organization (http://www.ilo.org/public/english/65entrep/finance/workshop/workshop.htm)
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.