Conferences

International Workshop on Peace and Development (January 2009)
Peace and Development Research Workshop (November 2008)
Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Horizontal Inequalities (April 2009)

 

Field Research and Ethics: Code of Ethics

American Sociological Association Code of Ethics (1997)
Canada’s Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics (2003)
Code of Ethics of the American Anthropological Association
Code of Ethics of the American Political Science Association
Code of Fieldwork Ethics for Human Rights Professionals

 

Field Research and Ethics: Working/Research Papers

Goodhand, J. 2000. ‘Research in Conflict Zones: Ethics and Accountability’. Forced Migration Review 8.

Hart, J. and B. Tyrer. 2006. ‘Research with children living in Situations of Armed Conflict: Concepts, Ethics & Methods.

 

International and Governmental Organizations

Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC)
Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean (INTAL), Inter-American Development Bank

International Network on Conflict and Fragility (INCAF), Development Co-Operation Directorate (DCD-DAC), OECD
Prime Minister's Strategy Unit: Countries at Risk of Instability Project (UK)
The Millennium Project (UN)
U.S. State Department: Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization
UK’s Stabilisation Unit
United Nations Peacebuilding Commission
USAID Conflict Management and Mitigation Program
World Bank

 

Networks and Forums

Alliance for Conflict Transformation
Balkan Academic News
Canadian Consortium on Human Security
Catholic Peacebuilding network
Global Consortium on Security Transformation (CIPS/FLACSO)
Global Development Network
Global Facilitation Network for Sector Security Reform
Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict
Households in Conflict Network
Peace and Collaborative Development Network
PeacE – Forum for Peacebuilding Ethics (PRIO)
Reconciliation Resource Network
Small States Network for Economic Development
Sustainable Peacebuilding Network
The ZEF Database of Development Experts
Transcend International
Transitional Justice Forum
Geneva Peacebuilding Platform
Initiative for Peacebuilding
Peacebuilding Initiative
Peacebuilding Portal
Peacebulding Resource Hub

Reseau Francophone de Reserche sur les Operations de Paix (ROP)

 

Peacekeeping Training Centers

Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR) (civilian peacekeeping training, Austria)

Cairo Regional Center for Training on Conflict Resolution and Peacekeeping in Africa (CCCPA) (Egypt)
Chilean Joint Peacekeeping Operations Centre (Chile)
Folke Bernadotte Academy (civilian peacekeeping training, Sweden)
German Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF) (civilian peacekeeping training, Germany)

Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) (Ghana)
Norwegian Defence International Centre (NODEFIC)
Peace Support Operations Training Center (Bosnia)
Peacekeeping School of Bamako (Mali)
Pearson Peacekeeping Center (Canada)
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (civilian peacekeeping training, Italy)

Swedint (military peacekeeping training, Sweden)
Training for Peace in Africa (TfP)
UN Institute for Training and Research Programme of Correspondence Instruction in Peacekeeping Operations (UNITAR POCI)

 

Research and Databases

A Micro Level Analysis of Violent Conflict (MICROCON)
ACLED: Armed Conflict Location and Event Data
Carleton University: Country Indicators for Foreign Policy
Conflict Analysis Resource Centre (compiled by CERAC)

Conflict Analysis Resources, Royal Holloway, University of London
Conflict Datasets available online (compiled by CERAC)
CSCW Datasets (compiled by the Center for the Study of Civil War at PRIO)
Environmental Security Database (Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies)
Global Development Network Knowledge Base
Global Policy Forum: Nations and States
Governance and Social Development Resource Center (GSDRC)
Human Security Centre, Data Sources and Annual Human Security Report
International Crisis Behavior Project (University of Maryland)
International Crisis Group: Databases and Resources
International Household Survey Network
Minorities at Risk, University of Maryland
PRIO Replication datasets
Relief Web
Resources for Conflict Vulnerability Assessment in Africa
State Failure and Regional Security Links (maintained by Prof. Thomas Jaeger at Universität Köln)
The Economics of Conflict (The World Bank)

Uppsala Conflict Database

 

Research Institutes: Africa

Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (Uganda)
Africa Institute of South Africa (South Africa)
Africa Policy Institute (South Africa)
African Economic Research Consortium (Kenya)
African Institute for Applied Economics (Nigeria)
Associação Inst. de Promoção de Paz, Propaz (Mozambique)
Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis (Botswana)

Center for Conflict Resolution (South Africa)
Center for Democracy and Development (Nigeria and the UK)
Center for Policy Studies (South Africa)
Center for the Study of the Economies of Africa (Nigeria)
Economic and Social Research Foundation (Tanzania)
Economic Policy Research Center (Uganda)
Ethiopian Development Research Institute (Ethiopia)
Ethiopian Economic Association/Ethiopian Economic Policy Research Institute (Ethiopia)
Human Sciences Research Council (South Africa)
IDASA (South Africa)
Institute for Empirical Research in Political Economy (Benin)
Institute for Practical Research and Training
Institute for Public Policy Research (Namibia)
Institute for Security Studies (South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia)
Institute of Policy Analysis and Research (Kenya)
Institute of Policy Analysis and Research (Rwanda)
Institute of Social Studies and Economics, IESE (Mozambique)

Makere Institute of Social Research (Uganda)
Nairobi Peace Initiative (Kenya)
Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit (Namibia)
Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (Nigeria)
Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA)
Pole Institute (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Rift Valley Institute (Kenya and the UK)
The Institute for Economic Affairs (Ghana)
West Africa Network for Peacebuilding, WANEP (Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, Gambia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Cote D

 

Research Institutes: Asia and Australia

Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (Afghanistan)

Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (Australia)
Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development (Georgia)
Center for Poverty Analysis (Sri Lanka)
Centre for Peacebuilding and Reconciliation, CPBR (Sri Lanka)
Centre for Policy Alternatives, CPA (Sri Lanka)
Centre for Policy Dialogue (Bangladesh)
Centre for Policy Research (India)
Foundation for Coexistence (Sri Lanka)
Human and Natural Resources Center, Katmandu University (Nepal)
Indian Institute of Dalit Studies (India)
Institute for Afghan Studies (Afghanistan)
Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (India)
Institute for Peace Science, Hiroshima University (Japan)
Institute for Policy Studies (Sri Lanka)
Institute for Social and Environmental Transition (Nepal)
Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (Singapore)
Institute of Economic Growth (India)

International Centre for Ethnic Studies (Sri Lanka)
National Council of Applied Economic Research (India)
Nepal Development Initiative (Nepal)
Rural Reconstruction Nepal (Nepal)
Shanghai Institute for International Studies (China)
SMERU Research Institute (Indonesia)
Social Policy and Development Center (Pakistan)
Social Scientists’ Association (Sri Lanka)
Sustainable Development Policy Institute (Pakistan)

 

Research Institutes: Europe

Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kriegsursachenforschung (Germany)
Berghof Conflict Research Center (Germany)
Bonn Centre for Development Research: Governance and Conflict (Germany)
Bonn International Center for Conversion (Germany)
Center for African Studies, University of Bradford (UK)
Center for Conflict Resolution, University of Bradford (UK)
Center for Humanitarian Dialogue (Switzerland)
Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research (Switzerland)
Center for Social Studies, Peace Studies Group, University of Coimbra (Portugal)
Center for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics (UK)
Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security, and Ethnicity (CRISE), Oxford University (UK)
Centre for the Future State (UK)
Centro de Estudios y Documentación Internacionales de Barcelona, CIDOB (Spain)
Chr Michelsen Institute, CMI (Norway)
Clingendael Security and Conflict Programme (Netherlands)
Conflict Research Group (CRG), The University of Ghent (Belgium)
Crisis State Research Center, London School of Economics (UK)
Danish Institute for International Studies: Post-Conflict Research Unit (Denmark)
Development and Peace Foundation (Stiftung Entwicklung und Frieden- SEF) (Germany)
EAWARN: Network for Ethnic Monitoring and Early Warning (Russia)

ETH Zürich: Research on Failed States in Sub-Saharan Africa (Switzerland)
Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies (Norway)
Geneva Center for Security Policy (Switzerland)
Households in Conflict Network, HiCN (UK)
Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI (UK)
INCORE: International Conflict Research (Northern Ireland)
Institute for Development Studies, IDS (UK)
Institute for Public Policy Research: Progressive Responses to 'State Failure' (UK)
International Alert (UK)
Interpeace (Switzerland)
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, NUPI (Norway)
Norwegian Peacebuilding Center, NOREF (Norway)
Overseas Development Institute (UK)
Peace Research Institute, PRIO (Norway)
Real Instituto Elcano (Spain)
Stanhope Center: Crisis, Stability, State Failure and the Role of the Media, London School of Economics (UK)
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sweden)
The International Development Department, University of Birmingham (UK)
Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research (Sweden)
Uppsala University: Department of Peace and Conflict Research (Sweden).

 

Research Institutes: Latin America

CEI, Postwar Reconstruction Experiences (Nicaragua)
Centro Argentino de Estudios Internacionales (Argentina)
Centro Brasileiro de Relacoes Internacionais (Brazil)
Centro de Análisis y Difusión de la Economía Paraguaya (Paraguay)
Centro de Documentación de Honduras (Honduras)
Centro de Estudio de la Realidad Económica y Social, CERES (Uruguay)
Centro de Estudios del Desarrollo, Universidad Central de Venezuela (Venezuela)
Centro de Estudios Internacionales, CEI (Nicaragua).
Centro de Estudios Internacionales, El Colegio de México (Mexico)

Centro de Estudios Políticos e Internacionales, Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)

Centro de Estudios sobre Desarrollo Económico, Universidad de los Andes (Colombia).
Centro de Estudios Socioculturales e Internacionales, Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)
Centro de Investigaci
Centro de Planificación y Gestión (Bolivia)
Centro para la Apertura y el Desarrollo de América Latina (Argentina)
Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO)
Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, secretaria general (FLACSO)
FLACSO Argentina
FLACSO Brazil
FLACSO Chile

FLACSO Costa Rica
FLACSO Ecuador
FLACSO El Salvador
FLACSO Guatemala
FLACSO Mexico
FLACSO Paraguay
FLACSO Rep. Dominicana
FLACSO Uruguay
Fundación Agenda Colombia (Colombia)
Fundación ARU (Bolivia)
Fundación para el Avance de las Reformas y las Oportunidades (Ecuador)
Fundación Salvadoreña para el Desarrollo Económico y Social (El Salvador)
Fundación Salvadoreña para el Desarrollo Económico y Social (El Salvador)
Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (Peru)
Instituto de Desarrollo (Paraguay)
Instituto de Enseñanza para el Desarrollo Sostenible, IEPADES (Guatemala)
Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (Bolivia)
Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (Peru)
Instituto de Estudios Políticos y Relaciones Internacionales (IEPRI), Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Colombia)
Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales (Universidad Central de Venezuela)
Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (Venezuela)
Instituto Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sociales (Ecuador)
Latinobarómetro
Plateforme Haitienne de Plaidoyer pour un Developpemente Alternatif (PAPDA)

 

Research Institutes: Middle East

Arab Reform Initiative
Carnegie Middle East Center (Lebanon)
Gulf Research Center (United Arab Emirates)
Institute for Palestine Studies (Lebanon)
Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (Israel)
Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (Palestinian National Authority)
Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, PSR (West Bank)
Peace Research Institute in the Middle East (Palestinian National Authority)
Rand-Qatar Policy Institute (Qatar)
The Center for Strategic Studies (Jordan)
The Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace (Israel)

 

Research Institutes: North America

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (USA)
Center for Defense Information: Failed States Program (USA)
Center for Global Development: Commission on Weak States and National Security (USA)
Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland (USA)
Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Columbia University (USA)
Center for Strategic and International Studies, CSIS (USA)
Center on Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law, Stanford University (USA)
Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS), the University of Ottawa (Canada)
Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum, CPPF (USA)
Fund for Peace: Conflict Prevention and Recovery Program (USA)
Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University (USA)
Institute for the Study of International Development, Mcgill University (Canada)
International Peace Institute, IPI (USA)
Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame (USA)
Peacebuilding and Development Institute, American University (USA)
Political Instability Task Force, George Mason University (USA)
Project on Democracy and War, Indiana University (USA)
Social Science Research Council, SSRC (USA)
The Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University (USA)
The International Development Research Center (Canada)
The Project on Environmental Scarcities, State Capacity, and Civil Violence, University of Toronto (Canada)
United States Institute of Peace (USA)
Watson Institute: Effective and Defective States Project, Brown University (USA)
World Peace Foundation: Reinvigorating Failed States Project, Harvard University (USA)

 

Spanish Journals/Publications

Análisis Político (IEPRI)
CLACSO Virtual Library
Colombia Internacional, Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)
Revista de Estudios Sociales, Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)
Revista Desarrollo y Sociedad, Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)
Revista Electrónica de Estudios Internacionales