DATASETS AND WEBSITES FOR MA SEMINAR

The Uppsala Conflict Data Program 

http://www.pcr.uu.se/research/ucdp

The Peace Research Institute in Oslo

http://www.prio.no/Data/Armed-Conflict/?id=348

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

http://www.sipri.org/databases

The Integrated Network for Societal Conflict Research (INSCR)

http://www.systemicpeace.org/inscr/inscr.htm

Correlates of War dataset (COW)

http://www.correlatesofwar.org/datasets.htm

The International Crisis Group

http://www.crisisgroup.org/

Human Security Report Group

http://hsrgroup.org/human-security-reports/2012/overview.aspx

Human Rights violations datasets:

·         Amnesty International

http://www.amnesty.org.uk/

·         CIRI Human Rights Data

http://www.humanrightsdata.org/

·         Political Terror Scale

http://www.politicalterrorscale.org/

Terror dataset:

·         Global Terror Dataset

http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/

Ethnic Conflict datasets:

·         International Conflict Research in Zurich

http://www.icr.ethz.ch/data

·         Minorities at Risk Project

http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/mar/

UN DATA:

http://data.un.org/Browse.aspx?d=GHG

Environmental datasets and maps:

http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/collection/epi/

World Resource Institute

http://www.wri.org/project/world-resources-report

Food Security

http://www.fao.org/economic/ess/ess-fs/en/

FAO_Hunger__Map_2013_WFS.pdf

Energy Information Administration:

Oil production and consumption

http://www.eia.gov/countries/index.cfm

Institute for Water and Watersheds

http://www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu/database/

World Water

http://www.worldwater.org/conflict/

Some other datasets

http://www.isadiscussion.com/view/0/datasets.html

CITATION MANUALS

Chicago Citation Manual of Style

http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html

American Political Science Association Citation Manual of Style

http://www.apsanet.org/media/PDFs/Publications/APSAStyleManual2006.pdf

Modern Language Association Citation Manual of Style 

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/

JOURNALS

Journals:

American Journal of Political Science

American Political Science Review

British Journal of Politics and International Relations

Cooperation and Conflict

Contemporary Security Policy

European Journal of International Relations

Foreign Affairs 

International Affairs

International Organization

International Security

International Studies Quarterly

International Studies Review

Millennium: Journal of International Studies

Review of International Studies

Security Dialogue

Security Studies

WEBSITES AND SOFTWARES

WORDLE: A website that generates word clouds. http://www.wordle.net/

TAGXEDO: A website that generates word clouds. (More varieties and different shapes) http://www.tagxedo.com/

Prezi: A website that helps you to create presentations (have to register) http://prezi.com/

VITAE: A website for postgraduate researchers that helps to develop their career in higher education institutions. (A UK-based website, have to register to receive emails) http://www.vitae.ac.uk/

Googlescholar: An advanced web search engine.

Scirus: An advanced web search engine. http://www.scirus.com/

Wolfram: http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Calibre: Ebook management software

Gutenberg: Free ebooks, mostly classics  http://www.gutenberg.org

Qiqqa= Referencing and document management software (free)

Mendeley= Reference management software (free)

Zotero= Reference management software (free)

Endnote=Reference management software

Xmind= Mind-mapping freeware (Helps you to brainstorm and organize your thoughts)

Freeplane=Mind-mapping freeware