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African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes

ACCORD is an institute committed to the prevention, management and resolution of conflicts in Africa. ACCORD’s primary aim is to influence political developments across the continent by encouraging conflict resolution and dialogue as an alternative to armed violence and protracted conflict.
The website publishes news and hosts two ACCORD’s publications:
Conflict Trends, which focuses on reporting on and analysing trends in current and emerging conflicts on the continent of Africa. In all, 28 issues had been produced in march 2006, some of them in partnership with UN agencies. All the issues are available on the site; articles are available as free downloads in PDF format.
The African Journal on Conflict Resolution, an academic journal focusing on conflict transformation in Africa. Articles are longer and more in depth than those found in Conflict Trends, and of an overtly academic nature. However, readership is not limited to academic institutions, and literary style has deliberately been kept accessible and straightforward. Copies of all articles from all editions of the journal can be downloaded from the site.

Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research

Founded in 1986, TFF is a think & action tank for individual-to-global - transnational - peace. TFF does peace research, conflict-mitigation and education, ield work in the Balkans, Iraq, Burundi and elsewhere, offers lectures, training and courses, and publishes books and reports. TFF is a people-financed, independent and all-volunteer force for peace.
Its website offers analyses, commentaries, ideas and debates.

War Profiteers

The War Profiteers website is maintained and updated by CorpWatch, an organization that counters corporate-led globalization through education, network-building and activism. It highlights those organisations that have benefited from preferential contracts in Iraq since the war and the Occupation.
The site offers Company Profiles, an Issues Library and a Toolkit with resources and fact sheets that show where many "defence" companies are based in the US and as well as information on how they’re profiteering from war.

Focus on the Global South

Focus on the Global South is a program of development policy research, analysis and action. Focus engages in research, analysis, advocacy and grassroots capacity building on critical issues, such as trade, security, peace building and financing development. It was founded in 1995 and is currently attached to the Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute (CUSRI) in Bangkok, Thailand.
The website has a monthly online magazine as well as details of campaigns, programmes and resources. Certain articles are available in French, Portuguese and Spanish and Bahasa Indonesian.

Human Security Centre

The Human Security Centre’s mission statement is to make human security-related research more accessible to the policy and research communities, the media, educators and the interested public. Amongst other publications, they produce the annual Human Security Report, two online bulletins, Human Security News and Human Security Research, as well as Human Security Gateway, an online database of human security resources. The Human Security Centre also undertakes its own independent research and hosts workshops that bring the research and policy communities together to discuss a range of human security-related issues.
Human Security Research is a monthly online compilation of significant new human security-related research published by university research institutes, think-tanks, IGOs and NGOs; Human Security News is a daily compilation of human security-related news and research resources drawn from some 50 online media sources, wire services, and over 100 think tanks and university research centres from around the world; and a publications section with various types of texts available online.

Human Security Gateway

The Human Security Gateway is a research and information database regrouping electronic and bibliographic resources on human security. The Gateway is a joint initiative of the Human Security Centre and the Canadian Consortium on Human Security, both located at the University of British Columbia.
The database offers extensive online resources, searchable by either theme (terrorism, small arms, children and armed conflict etc), region, country or type of resource (report, organisation, event audiovisual etc).

International Crisis Group

The International Crisis Group is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation, with over 110 staff members on five continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict. The group publishes reports as well as an monthly bulletin, CrisisWatch.
The website contains reports, databases and resources on conflict issues as well as media resources and speeches. Website available in French, Russian, Indonesian, Spanish and Arabic.