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AlertNet
http://www.alertnet.org/
AlertNet
provides global news, communications and logistics services to the
international disaster relief community and the public.
Home page presents
daily updated news from member organizations and Reuters News
Service. The site also includes an international register of aid suppliers; an
information exchange for members (to apply to be a member visit members application);
databases of training,
events (diary),
and contacts in the relief community (AlertNet Members) and
background information relevant to disaster relief. Relief Resources
provide access to documents, articles, and links to sites on topics such as
satellite images, children and war, working in relief, refugees, and
technology. For specific inquiries use the search engine.
Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development
http://www.forumasia.org/
Forum-Asia
was launched in December 1991, to facilitate collaboration among human
rights organizations in Asia so as to develop a regional response for the
promotion of human rights and democracy in the region.
Web site is
developing but contains information on international criminal court and
regional conference on internally displaced persons.
Brookings Institution, Project on Internal
Displacement
http://www.brookings.edu/fp/projects/idp/idp.htm
The
Brookings Institution Project on Internal Displacement seeks to improve the
international community's response to the global crisis of internal
displacement.
Website
includes notification of upcoming conventions, articles and papers, and UN reports, regarding protection and other issues of
internally displaced persons.
Global Internally Displaced Persons Project
http://www.idpproject.org/
The
Global IDP Project brings facts, figures and analysis on IDPs worldwide
into one integrated information system.
Website
provides access to Global IDP Database, which can be searched by
country or keyword. Wide range of information including:
population profiles, causes and protection concerns, humanitarian access,
subsistence concerns (health, nutrition, water, sanitation, and shelter),
and access to education. Downloadable Training modules that are based on the UN OCHA
document: Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and include
themes such as protection, ethics, coordination, and community
services. Publications,
weekly news, and a IDP links
page are also on the site.
INCORE: Initiative
on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity
http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/home/
INCORE aims
to address the management and resolution of conflict via a combination of
research, training and other activities that inform and influence national
and international organizations working in the field of conflict.
Website
offers information about INCORE, research activities, and the following.
 http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds/
Conflict data service contains peace agreements, a researcher
database and information bank. The information bank contains
links to papers, journals, reports, academic programs, trainings,
organizations, and institutes that work with issues dealing with conflict
and ethnicity. To access the databases, use the country
guides or thematic guides. The thematic guide, for
example, can get Internet resources for refugees
(among other themes).
http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/ecrd/
Ethnic Conflict Research Digest is a collection of peer reviews of
recently published books, articles and papers which can be searched by subject,
date
or terms.
http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/home/publication/
Publications lists annual reports, occasional papers, conference reports,
and research reports based on INCORE activities.
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