LINKS
Top
Sites for Links
Canadian
Forces College
http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/index.html
The War, Peace and Security Guide boasts over 8700 links. Armed forces
of the world, contemporary conflicts, international organizations, international
relations, military art and science, military biography, military history,
and peace and disarmament are the major categories, with many sub-categories
as well. This site covers a huge variety of issues in disarmament.
ISN
International Relations and Security Network
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/
ISN is based at the Centre for Security Studies and Conflict Research
in Zurich, Switzerland. The site provides a comprehensive set of links
to governments, institutes, and international organizations. Links are
divided by issue, region, or type of organization. This is one of the
most comprehensive sets of links for security studies on the web.
University
of Colorado
http://csf.colorado.edu/peace/academic.html
Colorado's Communications for a Sustainable Future site includes a comprehensive
list of peace study programs, centers, institutes and organizations,
including links to centers outside of the United States.
Top
Sites for Information
Bonn
Information Center for Conversion (BICC)
http://www.bicc.de/
BICC focuses on defense conversion, including demobilization and reintegration
issues, and issues resulting from surplus weaponry. Complete texts of
many reports and papers are online, as are extensive events databases
and weapons collection profiles.
British
American Security Information Council (BASIC)
http://www.basicint.org/
BASIC focuses on European security, nuclear issues, light weapons, and
the trade in major conventional weapons. This frequently updated site
has many excellent research papers that are available online in their
entirety. It also offers primary source documents and an extremely useful
calendar of international events.
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace
http://www.ceip.org/
Carnegie's Non-Proliferation Project hosts the pre-eminent international
non-proliferation conference annually, and also holds nonproliferation
roundtables with scholars and policy makers from all over the globe.
The website includes transcripts from many project meetings.
Federation
of American Scientists (FAS)
http://www.fas.org/
The FAS website is packed with government documents, analysis and links
relating to arms sales monitoring, chemical and biological weapons,
intelligence resources, military analysis, nuclear nonproliferation
and disarmament, space policy, and the Arms Transfer Working Group (ATWG)
website. Be sure to look at "the what's new" section, as this
site is updated regularly.
Hague
Appeal For Peace
http://www.haguepeace.org/
The Hague Appeal for Peace is a civil-society based effort to delegitimize
armed conflict and create a culture of peace for the 21st century. The
four main themes of the Hague Peace Appeal campaign are: strengthening
international humanitarian and human rights laws and institutions; advancing
the prevention, peaceful resolution, and transformation of violent conflict;
developing and linking disarmament efforts, including nuclear abolition;
and identifying the root causes of war, and developing a culture of
peace.
Monterey
Institute of International Studies
http://www.miis.edu/
Monterey has two research centers of particular interest:
- Center for Nonproliferation
Studies (CNS) http://cns.miis.edu/
The CNS journal The Nonproliferation Review, posts selected articles
online.
- Program on Security and
Development (SAND) http://sand.miis.edu
SAND provides a good chronology of events highlights problems of small
arms and light weapons around the world.
International
Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA)
http://www.iansa.org/
IANSA is part of the international NGO effort to curb the spread of
small arms and light weapons. This site includes an excellent list of
articles, speeches, research documents, and government documents relating
to the spread of small arms, text of many of the documents, and information
on IANSA members.
Stimson
Center
http://www.stimson.org/
Stimson's regularly updated site contains numerous discussion papers,
reports, and speeches relating to confidence building measures, cooperative
security, chemical and biological weapons, nonproliferation, nuclear
policy, weapons of mass destruction, and peacekeeping.
Stockholm
International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
http://www.sipri.se/
This site includes statistics, graphs and research studies on arms transfers
and production, military expenditure and technology, chemical and biological
weapons, European security, and export controls. The site includes selections
from the SIPRI Yearbook, an annual source for comprehensive coverage
of armaments, disarmament, and conflict.
Union of Concerned
Scientists
http://www.ucsusa.org/security
UCS's site regularly posts research on a wide range of global
security issues, such as missile defense, the Comprehensive Test Ban
Treaty, and nuclear reductions. UCS is also active at the grassroots and
political levels, and is a respected source of information for
legislators and the media.
The
United Nations -- Department for Disarmament Affairs
http://www.un.org/Depts/dda/dda.htm
The Department for Disarmament Affairs in the United Nations, "advises
the Secretary-General on disarmament-related security matters; monitors
and analyzes developments and trends in the field of disarmament; supports
the review and implementation of existing disarmament agreements; assists
Member States in multilateral disarmament negotiation and deliberation
activities towards the development of disarmament norms and the creation
of agreements; promotes openness and transparency in military matters,
verification, confidence-building measures, and regional approaches
to disarmament." Its website contains many of the major international
treaties that address arms control issues, as well as the Conventional
Arms Register, and is well worth investigating.
