Research Databases

• Advanced Data- and Knowledge-Driven Methods for State Failure Risk Assessment Project
• Carleton University: Country Indicators for Foreign Policy
• Conflict Analysis Resource Centre, compiled by CERAC
• Conflict Datasets available online, compiled by CERAC
• Environmental Security Database, Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
• Global Policy Forum: Nations and States  
• Global Development Network Knowledge Base 
• Governance Resource Centre Exchange
• Human Security Centre, Data Sources and Annual Human Security Report
• International Crisis Group: Databases and Resources
• Low Income Countries Under Stress (LICUS)
• Resources for Conflict Vulnerability Assessment in Africa
• State Failure and Regional Security Links (maintained by Dr. Thomas Jager in Cologne)
• Uppsala Conflict Database

Research Databases (Spanish)

Ecuador
• Iconos (FLACSO Ecuador)
Colombia
• Análisis Poltico (IEPRI, UNC; abstracts)
• Conexión Colombia (links to full-text documents)
• Desafíos (CEPI, UR; article list)
• Colombia Internacional (UA; abstracts)
• Revista de Estudios Sociales (UA; full-text)
• Desarrollo y Sociedad (CEDE, UA; abstracts)
Venezuela
• Cuadernos del Cendes (CENDES, UCV; full-text)
• Revista Venezolana de Análisis de Coyuntura (IIES, UCV; article list)
• Agenda Petrolera (IIES, UCV; description)
• Revista Nueva Sociedad  (abstracts and at least one full-text article per number)
Regional
• Revista Electrónica de Estudios Internacionales (full-text)
• Links to Latin American social science journals
• CLACSO Virtual Library (links to full-text articles of all affiliates)
• Revista del Observatorio Social de América Latina

Networking, Jobs, and Databases of Experts

• The ZEF Database of Development Experts
• The Alliance for Conflict Transformation
• Global Development Network

European Research Institutes

• Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kriegsursachenforschung (Hamburg, Germany)
• Bonn International Center for Conversion (Bonn, Germany)
• Bonn Centre for Development Research: Governance and Conflict (Bonn, Germany)
• INCORE: International Conflict Research (Ulster, Northern Ireland)
• Centre for the Future State (Sussex, UK)
• Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security, and Ethnicity (CRISE) (Oxford University, UK)
• Clingendael Security and Conflict Programme (The Hague, Netherlands)
• Crisis States Programme (London School of Economics, UK)
• Danish Institute for International Studies: Post-Conflict Research Unit(Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Development and Peace Foundation (Stiftung Entwicklung und Frieden- SEF) (Bonn, Germany)
• EAWARN: Network for Ethnic Monitoring and Early Warning (Moscow, Russia)
• ETH Zürich: Research on Failed States in Sub-Saharan Africa (Zurich, CH)
• Institute for Public Policy Research: Progressive Responses to \'State Failure\' (London, UK)
• Overseas Development Institute (London, UK)
• Peace Studies Group, Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra,
"Peacebuilding Processes and State Failure Strategies: Lessons Learned from Former Portuguese Colonies"(Portugal)

• Prime Minister\'s Strategy Unit: Countries at Risk of Instability Project (UK)
• Stanhope Center: Crisis, Stability, State Failure and the Role of the Media (London School of Economics, UK)
• Uppsala University: Department of Peace and Conflict Research (Uppsala, Sweden)

North American Research Institutes

• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington, DC)
• Center for Defense Information: Failed States Program (Washington, DC)
• Center for Global Development: Commission on Weak States and National Security (Washington, DC)
• Center for International Earth Science Information Network (Columbia University, USA)
• Center on Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law, (Stanford University, USA)
• The Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University
• Fund for Peace: Conflict Prevention and Recovery Program (Washington, DC)
• Indiana University: Project on Democracy and War (Indiana University, USA)
• International Peace Academy: Economic Agendas in Civil Wars Project (New York, USA)
• Political Instability Task Force (George Mason University, USA)
• University of Toronto: The Project on Environmental Scarcities, State Capacity, and Civil Violence
• Watson Institute: Effective and Defective States Project (Brown University, USA)
• World Peace Foundation: Reinvigorating Failed States Project (Harvard University, USA)

African Research Institutes

• Centre for Democracy and Development (Abuja, Lagos, London)
• Institute for Security Studies (Pretoria, Cape Town, Nairobi, Addis Ababa)
• West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (Accra, Ghana)
• Rift Valley Institute (Kenya and UK)

Asian Research Institutes

• Institute for Peace Science Hiroshima University (Hiroshima, Japan
• Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
• Shanghai Institute for International Studies (Shanghai, China)
• SMERU Research Institute (Jakarta, Indonesia)

Latin American Research Institutes

Regional
• Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (links to all affiliates)
• Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (links to all affiliates)
• Friedrich Ebert Foundation (links to Latin American affiliates)
• Latinobarómetro
Brazil
• Observatário Político Sul-Americano
Columbia
• Instituto de Estudios Políticos y Relaciones Internacionales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Centro de Estudios Políticos e Internacionales, Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)
• Centro de Estudios Sobre Desarrollo Económico,Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)
• Centro de Estudios Internacionales,Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)
• Centro de Estudios Socioculturales e Internacionales, Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)
Ecuador
• Instituto Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sociales (Ecuador)
Venezuela
• Centro de Estudios del Desarrollo, Universidad Central de Venezuela
• Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales, Universidad Central de Venezuela
• Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (Venezuela)

International and Governmental Organizations

• UN Millennium Project (Columbia University, New York)
• U.S. State Department: Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization
• USAID Conflict Management and Mitigation Program

Conferences

• Blankensee Colloquium: The Future of Intervention
• Harvard Conference: Undermining Terrorism
• ISS-EU: Failing States and the EU\'s Security Agenda
• ODI: Failed and Fragile States: How can the MDGs be achieved in difficult environments?
• OECD: Senior Level Forum on Development Effectiveness in Fragile States (January 2005)
• Purdue University Failed States Conference (1998-2001)
• University of Sussex, Centre for Global Political Economy:
“The Global Constitution of \'Failed States\' : the consequences of a new imperialism?”
• University of Toronto Workshop: “States within states”
• World Bank: How to Capitalize on Entrepreneurship in Failed States?
• A Human Security Doctrine for Europe: The Barcelona Report of the Study Group on Europe\'s Security Capabilities (15 September 2004)

Peacekeeping Training Centers

• Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR) (civilian peacekeeping training)
• Folke Bernadotte Academy (civilian peacekeeping training)
• German Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF) (civilian peacekeeping training)
• Norwegian Defence International Centre (NODEFIC)
• Pearson Peacekeeping Center
• Scuola Superiore Sant\'Anna (civilian peacekeeping training)
• Swedint
• Training for Peace in Africa (TfP)
• UN Institute for Training and Research Programme of Correspondence Instruction in Peacekeeping Operations (UNITAR POCI)
• Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC)