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Locating books on specific ethnic conflicts
Harvard University Library Catalog ( Hollis)
UC Berkeley Library Catalog (Pathfinder)
ASA: the Lehigh Library Catalog
Search ASA to locate books at Lehigh on your topic. Use a keyword search on the name of your ethnic group, also try combining the name of your country with the phrases " ethnic relations" "ethnic conflict" "ethnic groups." Follow the related subject links you find in the Subject Heading area of promising book results.Also, do a subject heading search using the name of your country and the subheadings as follows:
"Country name" - ethnic relations
"Country name" - history
"Country name" - politics and government
- Remember that Linderman Library is closed and materials are in storage centers. If ASA indicates that the book is from Linderman, fill out the retrieval request form and the books or journals you need will be delivered to Fairchild Library.
- If you don't find materials that seem useful, do a PALCI search to identify books from other libraries in our consortium of college and university libraries. You can search PALCI from within ASA or from these links. Requesting a book from PALCI is very easy and the materials can arrive quickly.
World Cat database
World Cat is a huge database of books at other libraries around the country. If you have little sucess with ASA or PALCI, try your search in World Cat. You can also request materials you find here through interlibrary loan, ILLIAD. Give yourself enough time for these materials to arrive.
Selected Journal article databases
Interdisciplinary coverage of a wide variety of journals and magazines. Coverage varies, earliest indexing back to 1980.
Indexes journals with a historical focus. Significant coverage of political history. World history excluding North America. Indexes articles back to 1964.
PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service)
Interdisciplinary index to journals, reports, books, government publications. PAIS Archive covers 1936-1976. PAIS covers 1976-present.
Research Library indexes, abstracts and provides selective full-text for a broad spectrum of magazines, journals and newspapers.
Web of Science (Social Science Citation Index)
Index to high impact journals. Also provides cited references searching for related articles and highly cited articles.
List of all Lehigh Databases (Use this link to connect to all other available databases.)
Many of our journal article databases allow you to obtain an online full text version of the articles they index. We also have a new technology called SFX, or Lehigh Links that will connect you to online full text where-ever it may reside. This quick guide will explain how it works: "Locating the full-text of articles using SFX. "
Find recent reports and publications on specific conflicts from aid and watch-dog agencies
Human Rights Watch - Publications
HRW produces a variety of documents on conditions and conflicts in countries and regions of the world. Select your country and you can choose to see only the major reports or all the documents which include press releases, letters, commentaries and testimony.
International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC Worldwide
http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList2/The_ICRC_worldwide?OpenDocument
Select a region of the world and then narrow to your country.
Peace Negotiations Watch
http://www.publicinternationallaw.org/peace/
" a weekly electronic compilation of articles about various disputes around the world. The table of contents can include such disputes as Armenia/Azerbaijan, Burundi, Chechnya, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cyprus, Georgia/Abkhazia, Indonesia/Aceh, Ivory Coast, Kashmir, Macedonia, Nepal, Somalia, Sri Lanka, and Sudan but may vary from week to week."
UNHCR: The United Nations Refugee Agency (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)
http://www.unhcr.org/
Use the Browse by Country feature to find reports and data
Selected Ethnic Conflict Databases
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
http://www.internal-displacement.org/This website provides an excellent source of background information, data and analysis of conflicts resulting in internally displaced persons. Use the "Links to Country Pages" to get to a country profile.
InCore - International Conflict Research, Conflict Data Service
http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/services/cds/Click on the highlighted word "countries" to navigate to the latest information on conflicts in specific countries.
International Crisis Behavior Project
http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/icb/
Use the ICB Data Viewer to review quantitative and qualitative data on the 443 crises and 975 state actors from the end of World War I through 2003 covered in the ICB system-level and actor-level datasets.International Crisis Group
Select "publications" from the lefthand column to view a list of the reports prepared by Crisiswatch for regions of the world.
You can also use the CrisisWatch database or the Conflict Histories database to follow developments in any conflict situation covered by CrisisWatch for any month from 1 September 2003. The database contains the entries from the current and all past editions of CrisisWatch. There is also a map database available.
Minorities at Risk Project
http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/MAR tracks 284 politically-active ethnic groups throughout the world from 1945 to the present -- identifying where they are, what they do, and what happens to them. MAR focuses specifically on ethnopolitical groups, non-state communal groups that have "political significance" in the contemporary world because of their status and political actions.
Click on "DATA" and you can choose to view minority group assessments or chronologies of important events. Also available is a more complex dataset that you can download and manipulate. To use this be sure to utilize the codebook to identify the variables you wish to chart. One needs to become familiar with the program to utilize it effectively.
Peace and Conflict 2005
A Global Survey of Armed Conflicts, Self-Determination Movements, and Democracy
http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/pc05print.pdf
The third edition in the Integrated Network for Societal Conflict Research (INSCR) Program's biennial global report series. This report details major trends in armed conflict, self-determination movements, and democracy through the contemporary era, 1946-2004, and provides a "conflict ledger" assessing each country's "peace-building capacity" in early 2005. The 2005 edition of the report complements the earlier editions by updating the trends and issues raised in the earlier reports, updating its descriptions of the status of major armed conflicts and self-determination movements, and expanding its analysis to include four new issues: trends in ethnic discrimination, 1950-2003; political instability in Africa (including an Africa Instability Ledger); genocides and politicides since 1955; and the social roots of, and general trends, in global terrorism.Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty
http://www.rferl.org/reports/
The website of RFE/RL contains news, country reports, interviews and special reports concerning issues as diverse as religion, oil politics, Iran's nuclear program and much more. This link will direct you to their country and regional reports page, but explore the rest of the website for additional features.Regionally focused web resources
Eurasianet.org
http://eurasianet.org/index.shtml
EurasiaNet provides information and analysis about political, economic, environmental and social developments in the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as in Russia, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia. The web site also offers additional features, including newsmaker interviews and book reviews.Juancole.com
A blog created by a University of Michigan professor of Middle Eastern studies which tracks news and analysis on middle east issues. Be careful to use only materials cited from legitimate sources.DO NOT USE WIKIPEDIA
International Newspaper Sources
Provides full text from national, regional and international newspapers, business and general news magazines, media transcripts, public opinion polls and surveys. Primarily English language but some coverage of foreign language news is also included.
Factiva has "same-day and archival coverage of The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, Financial Times, Handelsblatt, Les Echos, South China Morning Post, Australian Financial Review, Sydney Morning Herald, Straits Times, Yomiuri Shimbun, and local newspapers" from around the globe. Breaking news is available from 120 continuously updated newswires. Factiva requires the browser Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) 5.01 or higher.
Research Assistance
rev. September 2006Guide created by Roseann Bowerman, Social Sciences Librarian
For additional assistance stop by the Librarian Consultant room in FM Library where I will be on Tuesdays from 1:30 - 5 pm this semester. Or contact me for an individual appointment: rb04@lehigh.edu or phone 758-3053.
Also, check out the MyLibrary tab on your campus portal page. You can customize MyLibrary to reflect your International Relations research needs.