W.H. Moore's Conflict Links Page

• Professional Associations
  • Conflict Processes Section of the American Political Science Association.
  • Scientific Study of International Processes Section of the International Studies Association.
  • Peace Science Society International.
• Some Violent Conflict Data Sources
  • The Integrated Network for Societal Conflict Research (INSCR) is hosted by Monte Marshall's Center for Systemic Peace project. It makes a number of useful datasets available, most famously, the Polity IV data.
  • The Cingranelli and Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Data Set contains standards-based quantitative information on government respect for 13 internationally recognized human rights for 162 countries, annually from 1981-2003.
  • The START Center at University of Maryland hosts the Global Terrorism Data Project.
  • The World Handbook IV project contains annual cross-national violence data. It is based on the IDEA project as described here.
  • Gary King makes available data from the IDEA project that he calls the International Dyadic Events data. It is domestic and international data covering the 1990s.
  • The Uppsala Conflict Data Project's Armed Conflict 1946–2002 data set contains cross-national data on domestic and international conflicts in which at least 25 people are killed annually.
  • The Political Terror Scale data provides a cross-national coding of violations of physical integrity rights covering the years 1980-2006.
  • The MIPT in Oklahoma City hosts a Terrorism Knowledge Base.
  • Arthur Banks' Cross-National Time-Series Archive has some measures of violence from 1815 through the 1990s.
• Information Resources
  • ReliefWeb, United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs.
  • United Nations High Comission on Refugees.
  • INCORE, the Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity, a joint initiative of the University of Ulster and the United Nations University.
  • ISN, International Security Network.
  • WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources
  • Dispatches from Quatrom Refugee Camp, Albania.
• Some Human Rights Links

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Last Updated on 20 Feb 2008 by Will H. Moore

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