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General Background Sources:
- Credo Reference Academic Core (This link opens in a new window)
A comprehensive collection of subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks. Also included are short reference videos and high-resolution images. Useful background information source.
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A comprehensive collection of scholarly encyclopedias and dictionaries published by Oxford University Press. A useful background information source for starting your research. Simultaneous user limit: 5.
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Provides access to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, an interactive world atlas, a world data analyst tool, images, timelines, videos, and primary sources.
Discipline-Specific Background Sources:
Encyclopedia of Peace PsychologyCall Number: Stacks Upper Level JZ5533 .E634 2012Publication Date: 2012
International Handbook of Peace StudiesCall Number: Stacks Upper Level JZ5538 .P358 2011Publication Date: 2011
Routledge Companion to Peace and Conflict StudiesCall Number: Stacks Upper Level JZ5538 .R687 2019ISBN: 9781138742772Publication Date: 2019
Use Additional Online Resources
- Global Non-violent Action DatabaseProvides free access to information about hundreds of cases of nonviolent action for learning and for citizen action.
- Global Peace Index (GPI)The GPI measures national peacefulness according to 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators.
- H-Peace NetworkAn international digital network affiliated with the Peace History Society that seeks to broaden understanding about historical and contemporary peace, justice, and disarmament concerns.
- IgnatianSpirituality.com: Social JusticeA list of resources for social justice work and exploration put together by IgnatianSpirituality.com, a service of Loyola Press.
- Stockholm International Peace Research InstituteSIPRI is an independent international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament.
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Peace and Justice Studies Course Guides
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