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RESEARCH GUIDES

Interdisciplinary Studies: Peace and Conflict Studies

ACC’s Interdisciplinary Studies department offers degree specializations in African and African Diaspora Studies; American Studies; Global Studies; and Mexican American Studies.

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Scholarly articles, news, and research on topics in most subject areas.
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Online collection of general and subject-specific encyclopedias on all major topic areas.
Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
Articles from hundreds of domestic and international newspapers and news magazines.
Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window
Articles with pro and con viewpoints from reference works, magazines, academic journals, newspapers, primary source documents, and government and organizational statistics.
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Articles from regional business publications on current events.
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All ACC faculty, students, and staff have unlimited access to WSJ.com, WSJ apps, podcasts, curated newsletters, and more. You must first register using your ACC email at WSJ.com/AustinCC. More information can be found at The Wall Street Journal: Membership Program - https://researchguides.austincc.edu/WSJ
Site license for articles from 1984 to the present.

Media

Recommended databases for videos:

Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Educational streaming videos for most subject areas.
Kanopy This link opens in a new window
More than 26,000 streaming videos, including films from the Criterion Collection, festival circuit documentaries, and TV series. Kanopy (and not ACC) requires that you create a free account before accessing.

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Related guides

Books and eBooks

Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict by Lester R. Kurtz, ed.
Call Number: HM291 .E625 2008
ISBN: 0123695031
Publication Date: 2008
Peace Works by Frederick Barton
Call Number: JZ5584 .U6
ISBN: 9781538113011
Publication Date: 2018-05-01
The Ethics of War and Peace by Nigel Dower
Call Number: JZ6392 .D68 2013 ebk
ISBN: 0745641687
Publication Date: 2009
Humanitarianism and the Quantification of Human Needs by Joël Glasman
Call Number: BJ1475.3 .G59 2020
ISBN: 9781003006954
Publication Date: 2019-12-06
The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace by Nigel Young, ed.
Call Number: JZ5533.O95 2012 ebk
ISBN: 019533468X
Publication Date: 2010
Conspiring with the Enemy by Yvonne Chiu
Call Number: U22 .C5248 2019
ISBN: 9780231544177
Publication Date: 2019-10-21
War : from ancient Egypt to Iraq by David Saul, ed.
Call Number: D25.A2 W37 2009
ISBN: 9780756655723
Publication Date: 2009-09-21
At RGC, RRC
Little Book of Conflict Transformation by John Lederach
Call Number: HM1126 .L43 2003
ISBN: 9781680990423
Publication Date: 2015-01-27
Little Book of Strategic Peacebuilding by Lisa Shirch
Call Number: JZ5538 .S35 2004
ISBN: 9781680990454
Publication Date: 2015-01-27

Recommended websites

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Ethics, War and Peace
This site is a gateway to the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs work on the ethical challenges of war and peace.
Global Peace Index
International Peace Research Association
A network of scholars, practitioners and decision-makers from all continents, pursuing interdisciplinary research into the most pressing issues related to sustainable peace around the world today.
M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
Maintain International Peace and Security, United Nations
Search for Common Ground
United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
Practical tools for conflict resolution and peace building, and comprehensive analysis and policy recommendations on the prevention and resolution of conflict.
Correlates of War
Carter Center, Conflict Resolution Program
Institute for Economics and Peace
Institute for War and Peace
Search for Common Ground

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