Group Conflict

1. CrisisWeb (http://www.crisisweb.org/default.cfm) – Read about examples of conflict and crises all over the world through reports by the International Crisis Group.
   
   
2. Nobel Peace Laureates Respond to September 11 (http://www.thecommunity.com/crisis/) – Take a fascinating look at the responses to the September 11 attack from the 17 living Nobel Peace Prize winners. Readers can also respond to the laureates.
   
   
3. The Journalist's Toolbox (http://www.journaliststoolbox.com/newswriting/iraq.html) - resources related to the conflict between the United States and Iraq
   
   
4. The Iraq Debate (http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/iraqwar.html) - lots of resources related to the debate over war with Iraq - from the University of Michigan Documents Center
   
   
5. http://www.lib.ecu.edu/govdoc/iraq.html (http://www.lib.ecu.edu/govdoc/iraq.html) - from Joyner Library at East Carolina University
   
   
6. Conflict and Peacemaking: Cuban Missile Crisis (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/digitalarchive/index.html) - The Washington Post has made available its actual newspaper reports from 1962 coverage of Cuban missile crisis.
   
   
7. In vivo social experiment (http://www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor3/) – Ever watch Survivor, the CBS show that "strands" volunteers in different locations? You can explore the accompanying websites and consider how the principles of conflict and peacemaking apply to this contrived group situation.
   
   
8. "Behind the Mask: The IRA and Sinn Fein" (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ira/) – Explore the conflict in Northern Ireland through this website accompanying the PBS Frontline show (1998).
   
   
9. The Conflict Map (http://www.nobel.se/peace/educational/conflictmap/) - From the Nobel Foundation, this interactive map allows you to trace and read about major conflicts of the 20th century as well as view the geographic origins of Nobel Peace Prize winners.
   
   
10. How Westerners and Muslims view each other (http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=253) - a report of attitudes from the Pew Global Attitudes Project - a lot of interesting data
    
    
11. Anti-Americanism in Turkey (http://www.brookings.edu/views/articles/fellows/taspinar20051116.htm) - "The anatomy of anti-Americanism in Turkey" is a recent report from The Brookings Institution.
    
    
12. The Cuban Missile Crisis (http://www2.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/) - Declassified documents, audio clips, chronology, analysis and more from an exhibit "The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: The 40th Anniversary" from the National Security Archive at George Washington University

Reducing Conflict / Peacemaking

13. Center for Collaborative Organizations (http://www.workteams.unt.edu/) - articles, research projects and links on work teams
    
    
14. Nonviolent Conflict (http://www.aforcemorepowerful.org/) - Excellent PBS resource "A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict" covers South Africa, Gandhi's resistance in India, and other examples.
    
    
15. "Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation: The Robbers Cave Experiment" (http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Sherif/index.htm) - classic article from Muzafer Sherif et al.
    
    
16. Conflict resolution resources (http://www.crinfo.org/) - CRInfo provides an extensive set of links and resources on conflict resolution. Provided by the Conflict Resolution Consortium at the University of Colorado, this site contains well organized sets of links on many related topics, links to current news on the topic, lists of relevant print resources, and advice on how to use these resources for a variety of different audiences.
    
    
17. "The Roadmap to Peace in the Middle East" (http://www.state.gov/p/nea/rt/c2829.htm) - The U.S. State Department provides documents and other resources (2003) related to the Middle East peace process.
    
    
18. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (http://www.sipri.org/)
    
    
19. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (http://www.ceip.org/default.asp)
    
    
20. The Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies (http://www.nd.edu/~krocinst/)
    
    
21. Peace and Security Through Disarmament (http://disarmament.un.org/) - from the United Nations, reports, news and other resources
    
    
22. "Crime in the Schools: Reducing Conflict with Student Problem Solving" (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/pubs-sum/177618.htm) - report from the U.S. Dept. of Justice (1999)
    
    
23. Desegregating California's prisons (http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB114290971697503763-c_Bc66XQDv_Y3oGhmny49FBuPHc_20070321.html?mod=blogs) - Interesting forced "experiment" California is about to undertake in 2006. Most prisons are heavily segregated to reduce violence. What will happen? Read also about Texas' experience with such desegregation.
    
    
24. Threat of punishment on cooperation (http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=000AADF2-843E-1435-843E83414B7F0000) - A study reported in Scientific American found that "the threat of penalty is the key to successful cooperation."
    
    
25. Sex differences in negotiation tactics (http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/Research/wpaper.nsf/rwp/RWP05-045?OpenDocument) - "Two experiments show that sex differences in the propensity to initiate negotiations may be explained by differential treatment of men and women when they attempt to negotiate." - From the Faculty Research Working Paper Series at Harvard
    
    
26. "How social science can reduce terrorism" (http://www.socialpsychology.org/pdf/chronicle04.pdf) - Here is an interesting article by Scott Plous and Phil Zimbardo recently published in The Chronice of Higher Education. A less graphic-intense version can be found here (http://chronicle.com/free/v51/i03/03b00901.htm).