INTRODUCTION

FIND BACKGROUND INFORMATION

SELECTED PRINT REFERENCE SOURCES

FIND BOOKS IN LAVERY LIBRARY AND BEYOND

FIND ARTICLES AND MORE

FIND WEBSITES

INTRODUCTION
This guide is a pathfinder for finding materials in the area of Peace Studies. It is not meant to be comprehensive. For additional help in researching Peace Studies topics, contact the Reference Desk at 385-8141 or Marianne Simmons, Peace Studies Liaison, at 385-7399.

FIND BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Reference Books are located on the Main Level of Lavery Library.

Reference books provide background information to help you understand your topic, narrow your topic, or prepare an outline of your topic. They also help define terms related to your topic, provide assistance in the selection of subject terms for your database searches, and contain factual information, such as, statistics, biographies, and maps.

SELECTED PRINT REFERENCES SOURCES:

Encyclopedias
BJ63 .E44 1998 REF
Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics

JX1974 .E57 1993 REF
Encyclopedia of Arms Control and Disarmament

HS17 .E53 2004 REF
Encyclopedia of Associations: International Organizations

HM136 .B783 1997 REF
Encyclopedia of Conflict Resolution

JC571 .E67 1996 REF
Encyclopedia of Human Rights

KZ4968 .O84 2003 REF
Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements

HM291 .E625 1999 REF
Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, & Conflict

H41 .I58 2001 REF
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences

HN90 .V5 V5474 1999 REF
Violence in America

Dictionaries
HM136 .J47 1998 REF
An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945 - 1996

Handbooks
JC571 .A5 1999 REF
Amnesty International Report

K3165 .M33 2001 REF
Constitutions of the World

K3240.4 .H847 1999 REF
Human Rights: The Essential Reference

JZ1242 .E43 1998 REF
International Ethics: A Reference Handbook

JZ1242 .W67 2002 REF
World at Risk: A Global Issues Sourcebook

Directories
HN49 .V64 A47 2000 REF
Alternatives to the Peace Corps: A Directory of Third World and U.S. Volunteer Opportunities

JZ4838 .E97 REF
Europa Directory of International Organizations

JZ4850 .A17 2000 REF
Guide to IGOs, NGOs, and the Military in Peace and Relief Operations

JZ5514 .B46 2001 REF
Peace Movement Directory: North American Organizations, Programs, Museums, and Memorials

JX1905.5 .A64 1986 REF
Peace Resource Book: A Comprehensive Guide to Issues, Groups, and Literature

Biographies
JZ5540 .K44 1998 REF
Peacemakers: Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize

Documents
BX865 .P3713 1987 REF
Paths to Peace: A Contribution, Documents of the Holy See to the International Community

Statistical Sources
HN90 .V5 S833 1996 REF
Statistical Handbook on Violence in America

D214 .C54 2001 REF
Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Reference to Casualty and Other Figures, 1500 - 2000

Bibliographies
JC571 .H837 2000 REF
Human Rights: A Bibliography

GN378 .P33 B66 1993 REF
Peaceful Peoples

JX1952 .T63 1982 REF
To End War: A New Approach to International Conflict

FIND BOOKS IN LAVERY LIBRARY AND BEYOND
The key to the library's extensive book collection is the Library Catalog. It may be searched by Author, Title, Subject, or Keyword. Subject headings are established by the Library of Congress. If you have any trouble selecting a Subject heading for your topic, try a Keyword search or check the listings in the Library of Congress Subject Headings red books (Z 695 .L69 2001 REF) in the Reference area near the main floor computers.

Link to the Library Catalog from the library's homepage at http://library.sjfc.edu

Subject Headings which may be useful to you for Peace Studies are:

Peace
Pacifism
Peace Movements
Peaceful Relations
Peaceful Change International
Peace Societies
Nonviolence
Reconciliation
Conflict Management
Culture Conflict
Human Rights
Social Justice
International Relations
Ethnic Relations
Nationalism
Passive Resistance
Civil Disobedience
Conscientious Objection
Just War Doctrine History
Arbitration International
International Agencies

Search specific peace organizations by the name of the organization.

If you would like to browse the holdings for Peace Studies, try the following sections:

Circulating books are all located on the Upper Level.

Link to the Library Catalog from the library's home page http://library.sjfc.edu

Find books in Other Libraries by selecting Other Libraries from the library's home page.

Search the world for books by selecting WorldCat from the databases listed on the Research Databases web page.

To order a book from another library use the online Interlibrary Loan form, accessible from the library's home page http://library.sjfc.edu.

FIND ARTICLES AND MORE
Lavery Library subscribes to an extensive collection of Research Databases that may be used to search for articles on your topic in periodicals, newspapers, and book chapters. Periodicals include both scholarly journals and popular magazines. When researching for courses in your major, it is usually recommended that you use scholarly articles, also referred to as peer reviewed or refereed articles. Databases will often allow you to limit your search to scholarly articles.

If the article cited on the database that you are using does not appear in full-text on the database, check Periodical Holdings on the library's home page to determine if the periodical is either full-text on another database or available in hard copy in the library's collection.

Research Databases are listed both alphabetically and by subject on the library's home page. Since Peace Studies is an interdisciplinary subject, a variety of databases may be useful. Use appropriate databases listed under Databases by Subject in the categories: General & Interdisciplinary, Social Sciences, and Humanities and Art. Start with the following databases:

Academic Search Premier
Alternative Press Index
Lexis Nexis
Proquest Newspapers
Proquest Research Library
ATLA (American Theological Library Association)

To order articles from another library use the online Interlibrary Loan form on the library's home page.

FIND WEBSITES
Your liaison librarian, Marianne Simmons, has provided a list of quality websites for Peace Studies. They are available on the library's home page under Internet Resources, then Selected Websites.

When using websites for research it is very important to evaluate their authority and content. Use the following checklist to evaluate sites before using them as references.

Evaluating Web Sites Checklist

To search for additional websites, start with Google - http://www.google.com.