Peace and Conflict Resources

Here's a round-up of several recently updated resources that report on conflict around the world:

Alert 2009! Report on conflicts, human rights and peacebuilding [access]
- Provides "an overview of the world situation at the end of the year in terms of conflict and peacebuilding."

Conflict Barometer 2008 [access]
- "[D]escribes recent trends in conflict development, escalations, settlements."

Major Episodes of Political Violence, 1946-2008 [access]
- "[L]ists 302 episodes of armed conflict (including 27 ongoing cases) that comprise a comprehensive accounting of all forms of major armed conflicts in the world over the contemporary period."

SIPRI Yearbook 2009: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security [access]
- A "compendium of data and analysis in the areas of security and conflicts; military spending and armaments; non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament."

For more general background information on countries, visit the newly re-designed World Factbook site; this well-known resource "provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities."

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