Wellesley College Library catalog - Use the Library catalog to find books and other materials (journal titles, NOT journal articles) we have here at Wellesley. Remember to start with "keyword" if you are beginning to research a topic. You can also try the following subject headings:

• peace
• conflict management
• dispute resolution (law)
• mediation

Worldcat - Use WorldCat to find books, journal titles (NOT individual articles), and other materials that are not in the Wellesley Library catalog. Use the ILL link within WorldCat to request the material through Interlibrary Loan.

Blue helmets : a review of United Nations peace-keeping. Clapp Docs U.N. Sales I 1996 14.
A history of UN peacekeeping efforts from 1946 to 1996. Also see the UN Peacekeeping Web site and their special research guide on peacekeeping.

Encyclopedia of Conflict Resolution. Clapp Ref HM 136 B783 1997.
Entries include concepts such as conflict and dispute, escalation, interests, positions, and conflict resolution techniques. Confrontations from two party personal relationships to super-power confrontations are discussed.

Encyclopedia of Conflicts Since World War II. Clapp Ref D 843 E46 1999 4 vols.
Discusses the roots of war, various alliances and summit meetings meant to forestall conflict, and the background and events connected with numerous specific conflicts since World War II. Entries have lists of further sources.

Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security. 2004. The history, uses, scientific principles, and technologies of espionage, intelligence, and security, with special emphasis placed on the current ethical, legal, and social issues.

Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. 2005. The Encyclopedia spans the globe to explain the issues behind crimes against humanity and human rights issues as they relate to individual countries and the world at large. It traces the history of events that qualify as genocide and crimes against humanity, profiles perpetrators and heroes, and explains international laws and law proceedings aimed at ending genocide and crimes against humanity. It also delves into depictions and manifestations of the phenomenon, such as propaganda, sociological and philosophical explanations, literature and film.

Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict. Clapp Ref HM 886 E53 1999 3 vols.
Includes entries on the leading theories and concepts of violence, peace, and conflict. Articles cover a breadth of issues such as peace education, trends in warfare, mental illness, and violence toward animals.

International Conflict: A Chronological Encyclopedia of Conflicts and their Management 1945-1995. Clapp Ref D 842 B46 1997.
Introductory chapters on understanding and managing international conflict; then brief articles on specific conflicts. Extensive references.

The following databases provide either full-text articles or citations (information about when and where the article was published). Once you have a citation for an article, use Find It! @ Wellesleyto link to the full text of the article or go to the record in our library catalog to see if we might have the journal in print. Make sure you look at the dates covered carefully! If Wellesley does not own the article, you can request it via Interlibrary Loan (ILL). See our A-Z list for additional databases. Think of which database will have the information for the approach you want and don't forget to check the coverage dates of the database to make sure the time period you need is covered.

• For articles that cut across disciplines try Academic Search Premier, Expanded Academic ASAP, Periodical Contents Index (PCI) or ArticleFirst
• CIAO[Columbia International Affairs Online] - full-text and abstracts from working papers, policy briefs, books, journals dealing with international affairs. Has articles on military security.
• For a religious focus search ATLAReligion
• For articles on peace in a particular country try PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service)
• For a sociological focus use Sociological Abstracts
• For an economic focus use EconLit
• For historical information about a particular country or issue also try Historical Abstracts (international) or America: History and Life (United States and Canada).
• For women's issues, also try Gender Watch or Women's Studies International
• For articles on the military
• For alternative viewpoints from the left or right, try Alt-Press Watch

Journal of Human Rights - edited by Tom Cushman. Wellelsey has a print subscription; see recent issues in the Clapp Reading Room and back issues at Clapp JC 571 .J68. Also online

New York Times online- exact replica of the New York Times in PDF format, covers 1851-1999. Use LexisNexis Academic News for more recent news stories.

Project Muse (current 2-3 years), and JSTOR (backfiles) have full-text of some journals in the fields of Economics, Political Science, Sociology, and Religion.

Web of Science (and Social Science)- 1965+. Interdisciplinary subject searching of scholarly articles in the social, physical, and life sciences. Search for articles that cite known journal articles or books.

Organizations and Groups for Advocacy and Awareness

• Americans for Peace Now - "founded to...build an informed and empowered pro-peace American public." Explains the relationship of Americans for Peace Now to the Israeli group, Shalom Achshav (Peace Now), and offers news, position papers, and Peace Links, which includes a range of Israeli Web sites promoting peace.
• Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are two prominent NGOs whose sites offer current information on human rights and documentation of their respective campaigns and actions.
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a private non-profit organization dedicated to advancing cooperation among nations and promoting active international engagement by the United States.
• The Carter Center - In partnership with Emory University, is guided by a fundamental commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering; it seeks to prevent and resolve conflicts, enhance freedom and democracy, and improve health.
• Democracy Now! - National, daily, independent, award-winning [radio and television] news program airing on over 140 stations in North America." Hosted by award-winning journalists, Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, the program covers news and public affairs. The War and Peace Report offers news and commentary on the invasion of Iraq, North Korea, the United Nations, and related topics.
• The Global Fund for Women is an international organization focusing on the rights of women. Issues of concern include domestic violence, literacy, economic development, and international trafficking in women.
• Global Policy Forum - "monitors policy making at the United Nations, promotes accountability of global decisions, educates and mobilizes for global citizen participation, and advocates on vital issues of international peace and justice".
• International Crisis Group - working to prevent conflict worldwide.
• Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe [OSCE] - world's largest regional security organization. Contains official records, publications, fact sheets, news releases, and maps.
• Physicians for Global Survival is a physician-led organization committed to the abolition of nuclear weapons, the prevention of war, the promotion of non-violent means of conflict resolution and social justice in a sustainable world.
• Social Development and World Peace from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. The Catholic viewpoint of world policy issues. The site provides documents, legislative news, action alerts, and other links to social teaching.
• War Resisters League - founded in 1923, their mission states "The War Resisters League affirms that all war is a crime against humanity. We therefore are determined not to support any kind of war, international or civil, and to strive nonviolently for the removal of all causes of war."

Research and Education

• Arms Sales Monitoring Project - works for restraint in the global production and trade of weapons, from the Federation of American Scientists. Links to data on arms sales and weapons manufacturers.
• Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University. Links to research papers and hosts a Global Conflict Database.
• Fund for Peace - "research and educational organization that works to prevent war and alleviate the conditions that cause war". Links to the annual Failed States Index.
• The INCORE Internet Service on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity, based in Northern Ireland, and the Conflict Research Consortium , at the University of Colorado, are both large compendia of links to a range of resources on peace, ethnicity and conflict resolution. There is some overlap.
• Institute for War and Peace Reporting is an independent educational charity which supports democratisation and development in crisis zones by providing an international platform, professional training, and financial assistance to independent media. Included are news and analysis of conflicts in Southeastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
• M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence - their mission is to "promote and apply the principles of nonviolence locally, nationally, and globally, to prevent violence and resolve personal and public conflicts through research, education, and programming".
• Institute for National Strategic Studies [National Defense University] - policy research and strategic gaming organization that provides timely, objective analysis and gaming events to senior decision makers and supports NDU educational programs in the fields of international security and defense policy. Affiliated with the Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction. See it's Working Papers.
• Peace and Security through Disarmament describes the work of the UN in promoting disarmament.
• Course syllabi, bibliographies, and links to many Peace Studies programs can be found at the Peace Studies Association site.
• Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research [based at the Harvard School of Public Health] - Conducts research into policy making on humanitarian operations and the protection of civilians in times of war.
• SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) conducts research on weapons development, military expenditure, and arms limitation, reduction, and disarmament. Its site contains research reports and documentation on these areas.
• Terrorism Knowledge Base (from the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism) - one-stop resource for comprehensive research and analysis on global terrorist incidents, terrorism-related court cases, and terrorist groups and leaders.
• UN Institute for Disarmament Research - full-text research reports, information about internships.
• The United States Institute for Peace conducts research to promote peaceful resolution of international conflicts. The site includes online research reports and policy studies--special initiatives include virtual diplomacy, the rule of law, and human rights.
• World Peace Foundation - "seeks to advance the cause of peace through study, analysis and the advocacy of wise action.". A few reports are available to download.

Texts and Documents

• Women's Human Rights Resources is a searchable file of electronic texts--documents, conventions, reports--from both governmental and nongovernmental organizations. It is maintained at the Bora Laskin Law Library at the University of Toronto.
• Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation [ISN] - Text of historic arms control agreements from the U.S. Bureau of Arms Control and the U.S. Bureau of Nonproliferation (which merged to become the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation in 2005).
• Correlates of War Project from the University of Michigan includes extensive historical information, listing intrastate, extrastate, and civil wars for the period 1816-1992.
• The official U.S. State Department Annual Reports on Human Rights provide very detailed information on human rights practices for each country.
• Frederick K. Cox International Law Center War Crimes Research Portal [Case Western Reserve Law School] - links to Web sites related to international humanitarian law. Also contains the text of over 120 research memoranda on issues pending before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and the International Criminal Court.
• HURIDOCS (Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems, International) - a global network of organisations concerned with more effective ways of using information for the cause of human rights.
• HURISEARCH (established in cooperation with Human Rights Education Associates) - a human rights search engine, it directly searches almost 1500 human rights NGO sites in 58 languages.
• INCORE Country Guides (Initiative on Conflict Resolution & Ethnicity) offer information about Internet resources on conflict and ethnicity for specific countries.
• The official site of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights provides news reports, press releases, treaties, legislation, and reports on conferences and monitoring efforts.
• Patterns of Global Terrorism and Country Reports on Terrorism [U.S. Dept. of State] - 1995 onward.
• Peace Agreements Digital Collection [U.S. Institute of Peace] - full text of agreements signed by the major contending parties ending inter- and intra-state conflicts worldwide since 1989.
• Peace and Security, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Affiars [United Nations]
• Reconstruction of Afghanistan [Center on International Cooperation at NYU] - commentaries and documents on the drafting of a new construction.
• U.S. Dept. of State pages on Iraq and Afghanistan
• Truth Commissions Digital Collection [US Institute of Peace] - decrees establishing truth commissions and similar bodies of inquiry worldwide, and the reports issued by such groups.  

For related resources, visit Wellesley's subject pages for International Relations, Political Science, or any other subject page which might be applicable to your research.

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