Penn State University Libraries - Peace & Conflict Studies

Journal Articles

• Peace Research Abstracts [Penn State Libraries]
  covers essential areas related to peace research, including conflict resolution, peace psychology, genocide, international law, armed conflicts, civil wars, territorial disputes, terrorism, counterterrorism, arms control, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, humanitarian aid.

• Philosopher's Index [Penn State Libraries]
  covers scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. The literature covered goes back to 1940 and includes journal articles, books, book chapters such as contributions to an anthology, and book reviews. Useful for researching nonviolence, pacifism, etc.

• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts [Penn State Libraries]
  citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/public policy. Useful for researching the peace movement, nonviolence, war, just war theory, etc.

Policy Papers

• CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) [Penn State Libraries]
  a comprehensive source for research in international affairs. It includes full text of selected books on international affairs, working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. It also, contains abstracts and some full text of selected journal articles.

• OxResearch [Penn State Libraries]
  a "first draft of history" as it occurs. Provides succinct analytical articles covering world and regional economic and political developments of major significance. Evaluates issues and events within a coherent political, social, and economic framework. Contains objective, multi-disciplinary articles compiled by an extensive international network of over 1,000 faculty members at Oxford and other leading universities around the world, as well as think tanks and institutes of international standing.

• PolicyFile [Penn State Libraries]
  draws its content from public policy think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers. Provides links to documents and organizations.

• Praeger Security International [Penn State Libraries]
  interdisciplinary and diverse in political perspective, Praeger Security International Online publishes material on international security, including defense and foreign policy, strategy, regional security, military history, and terrorism.

U.S. Government

• United States Institute of Peace
  provides the analysis, training and tools that help to prevent, manage and end violent international conflicts, promote stability and professionalize the field of peacebuilding.

• U.S. Department of State

• Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization
  Agency responsible to lead, coordinate and institutionalize U.S. Government civilian capacity to prevent or prepare for post-conflict situations, and to help stabilize and reconstruct societies in transition from conflict or civil strife, so they can reach a sustainable path toward peace, democracy and a market economy.

• Civilian Response Corps
  provides the U.S. Government with a pool of qualified, trained, and ready-to-deploy civilian professionals to support overseas reconstruction and stabilization operations

• U.S. Agency for International Development [USAID]
  USAID is an independent federal government agency that receives overall foreign policy guidance from the Secretary of State and is the principal agency providing foreign assistance.

• Peace Corps
  an agency of the federal government devoted to world peace and friendship. Volunteers live in work in host communities helping the people of interested countries in meet their need for trained men and women.

• U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission)
  an independent U.S. government agency created in 1976 to monitor and encourage compliance with the Helsinki Final Act and other OSCE commitments.

Intergovernmental Organizations

• United Nations

  • Peace and Security Issues

    • Peacekeeping Operations

    • Peacebuilding Commission

  • Human Rights

  • International Law

• Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

International Courts and Tribunals

• International Court of Justice

• European Court of Human Rights

• Inter-American Court of Human Rights

• International Criminal Court
  the International Criminal Court (ICC), governed by the Rome Statute, is the first permanent, treaty based, international criminal court established to help end impunity for the perpetrators of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community. The United States has NOT adopted the Rome Statute.

• International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
  Overview, documents, news, judgments, cases, etc.

• International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
  Overview, documents, news, judgments, cases, etc.

• Special Court for Sierra Leone
  Overview, documents, news, judgments, cases, etc.

• Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
  Overview, documents, news, judgments, cases, etc.

• Special Tribunal for Lebanon
  Tribunal established to try all those who are allegedly responsible for the attack of 14 February 2005 in Beirut that killed the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and 22 others.

• Human Rights Documents Online [Penn State Libraries]
  contains documents collected since 1980 by the Human Rights Internet, the unofficial depository for documentation produced by more than 480 non-governmental human rights organizations throughout the world. Reports may be universal in scope or focus on a specific area of the world. Users can find documents by using a keyword search or browsing by country.