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Chapter 2: Feminist security studies
Join ‘Feminist Security Studies’ on Facebook: www.facebook.com.
‘Feminist IR 101, Post #5 War and security (in theory)’ is a blog-post by Laura Sjoberg at The Duck of Minerva, a blog about ‘International politics in theory and practice... and some other stuff’: http://duckofminerva.blogspot.com/2011/01/feminist-ir-101-post-5-war-and-security.html
The NGOWG on Women, Peace and Security advocates for the equal and full participation of women in all efforts to create and maintain international peace and security: http://www.womenpeacesecurity.org/.
PeaceWomen monitors the UN Security Council, the UN system, and provides a hub of information sharing on women, peace and security. We are a project of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), the oldest women’s peace movement in the world: http://www.peacewomen.org/.
UN Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict (UN Action) unites the work of 13 UN entities with the goal of ending sexual violence in conflict: http://www.stoprapenow.org/about/
Chapter 3: Human security
Human Security Gateway, a database of publications concerning non-conventional violent threats to individuals: http://www.humansecuritygateway.com.
The United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security, a website documenting UN activity focused on human security the protection and empowerment of people and communities: http://ochaonline.un.org/Home/tabid/2097/Default.aspx.
Warwick University. New Security Challenges, collection of academic research and scholarship on human security issues: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/research/newsecurity/publications/.
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODCs description of human trafficking as well as anti-trafficking initiatives by the UN: http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/what-is-human-trafficking.html.
Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking, a transnational advocacy network of major anti-trafficking non-governmental organizations: http://www.endslaveryandtrafficking.org/.
Chapter 4: Green security
United States Department of Defense information on the Environmental Security Program: http://www.dod.mil/execsec/adr95/envir_5.html
United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence ‘live’ energy data page: http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/AboutDefence/WhatWeDo/DefenceEstateandEnvironment/Energy/
United Nations Environment Program online publication on environmental security: http://www.unep.org/ourplanet/imgversn/154/content.html
Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, this source demonstrates the rhetoric which presents climate change and other environmental degradation as a security issue: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8847562857479496579#
Information from the Institute for Environmental Security which is an international NGO based at The Hague: http://www.envirosecurity.org/
Chapter 5: Securitisation theory
Barry Buzan talks Security:
- Part one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqdzRjSlz34&feature=related
- Part two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MTuzqgaook&feature=related
- Part three: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU4RjPJ4sAM&feature=related
- Part four: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eePKuBCJBXc&feature=related
- Part five: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIljrbRnfY4&feature=related
Climate change as a security threat (AlJazeera): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPz7B6ers4k
Obesity as a security threat: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8655651.stm
HIV/AIDS as a security threat: http://data.unaids.org/Topics/Security/fs_security_en.pdf
Twitter as a security threat: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?show_article=1&id=081025182242.js2g2op8
Chapter 6: Security as emancipation
Excellent resource on Bhopal maintained by the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (ICJB): http://bhopal.net/
Union Carbide’s website on Bhopal, also promoted by Dow Chemicals: http://www.bhopal.com/
Website of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department of the Government of Madhya Pradesh, the Indian state in which Bhopal is located: http://www.mp.gov.in/bgtrrdmp/
Website of The Bhopal Medical Appeal (UK-based) that has information on health implications of the gas tragedy and ongoing efforts to address the same: http://www.bhopal.org/.
Website of The Bhopal Memory Project (US-based), including lists of useful educational resources: http://bhopal.bard.edu/resources/
Chapter 7: Poststructural security studies
Watson Institute for International Studies, a leading research centre for issues relating to global peace and security: http://www.watsoninstitute.org/project_detail.cfm?id=121.
Website run by students for students of international relations, diplomacy and foreign policy: http://www.e-ir.info/.
Atlantic Community, a platform for transatlantic debate of issues pertaining to global politics that also hosts conference information, job opportunities and opinion pieces: http://www.atlantic-community.org/index/.
York Center for International and Security Studies, a research centre focussing on critical approaches to security: http://www.yorku.ca/yciss/.
Resources on Judith Butler, feminist poststructural theorist and activist: http://judithbutler.wordpress.com/.
Center for the Study of Narrative and Conflict Resolution, a ‘hub’ for academics and practitioners around the world working on conflict resolution from a narrative lens: http://scar.gmu.edu/cncr/9488.
Chapter 8: Postcolonial security studies
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a non-profit Washington D.C.-based think-tank focused on international engagement and U.S. foreign policy more generally. Its “Nuclear Policy” program releases frequent publications and policy pieces from the Carnegie Endowment’s board of experts: http://www.carnegieendowment.org/.
The James Martin Center for Non-Proliferation Studies (CNS) (http://cns.miis.edu/) is influential think tank which works to train nonproliferation specialists and publish information and analysis. Three times a year it publishes the peer-reviewed journal The Nonproliferation Review: http://cns.miis.edu/.
The Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy is a UK-based NGO dedicated to arms control and disarmament. The Acronym Institute publishes the bi-monthly journal Disarmament Diplomacy which carries a variety of articles related to nuclear non-proliferation: http://www.acronym.org.uk/index.htm.
The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) is non-profit organization focused primarily on global security issues, and is closely affiliated with the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (http://www.thebulletin.org/). Publications from its current Nuclear Information Project, a subset of its Strategic Security Program, are dominated by Hans M. Kristensen who also runs a major portion of the FAS Security Blog which routinely publishes brief assessments of major issues: http://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/nukes/index.html.
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is an organization that conducts scientific research on conflict and international security funded in large part by the Swedish government. The project conducts research on nuclear proliferation which tracks developments related to nuclear weapons policy and arms control with a focus on the technical dimensions of arms control: http://www.sipri.org/.
Chapter 9: Quantitative methods
Francis Stage’s “Answering Critical Questions Using Quantitative Data”: http://online.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ir.200/pdf
The European Science Foundation Network’s Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences Seminars: http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/gmss/
The Research Methods Knowledge Base’s Overview of Core Quantitative Methods: http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/index.php
The International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches: http://mra.e-contentmanagement.com/
See also conversations about these issues on IR blogs like Duck of Minerva (http://www.duckofminerva.blogspot.com), Kittenboo (www.kittenboo.com), and Lawyers, Guns, and Money (http://www.lawyersgunsandmoneyblog.com).
Chapter 10: Archival research and document analysis
The Social Science History Association at http://www.ssha.org brings together scholars whose concerns cross the boundaries of history and social science. The website contains an archive of many papers devoted to the theory and methods of an historically oriented approach to social scientific research.
Archives Alberta hosts an online edition of the diary of a camp official at http://asalive.archivesalberta.org:8080/access/asa/documents/display/GLEN-52.
The Government of Canada maintains an online collection of internment documents at http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/the-public/005-1142.27-e.html. Like many other countries, Canada also hosts many other online collections.
Ukrainian activists maintain a collection of analysis related to internment at www.internmentcanada.ca and http://www.infoukes.com/history/internment/gulag/
The Political Apologies and Reparations website operated under the aegis of Wilfred Laurier University at http://political-apologies.wlu.ca is an excellent resource for tracking political apologies and reparations given by many governments around the globe.
The National Archives in Britain at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk and in the United States at http://www.archives.gov/research/ host a very large number of government documents online, making these electronic repositories excellent places to begin historical research pertaining to human security.
Chapter 11: Ethnographic methods
The Political Ethnography Project was founded by scholars using ethnographic methods to study political phenomena, including security, and to facilitate collaboration and discussion. http://www.politicalethnographyproject.org/
A blog run by a group of anthropologists that covers a wide range of issues relating to ethnography as a practice. http://www.ethnography.com/
The Sociological Images blog critiques images from a wide range of sources with a view to revealing how social norms relating to gender, race/ethnicity/nationality, and class are embedded in visual media. http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/
Anthropologists for Justice and Peace is a Canadian blog whose contributors are "interested in supporting struggles for self-determination, decolonizing knowledge production, and resisting the corporatization and militarization of the academy." http://anthrojustpeace.blogspot.com/
Ethnography Matters explores "what it means to be an ethnographer today" with posts on methods, ethnographies and the politics of ethnography/ethnographic research. http://ethnographymatters.net/
Chapter 12: Participatory action research
Building a Better World Forum for Global Service-Learning. A resource for university faculty, students, and community members committed to collaboratively addressing challenges; includes diverse links, teaching resources, and ongoing updates: http://buildingabetterworld.wordpress.com/.
Institute for Participatory Action Research and Design at the City University of New York Graduate Center. A PAR overview, information on ethical and IRB guidelines, and more useful links, references, and resources: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/che/start.htm.
ActionResearch.net. Through reflecting on the question, "What is a Living Educational Theory Approach to Action Research and a Humane Existence?" Professor Jack Whitehead gathers resources for and examples of action research by practitioner researchers engaged in local and global contributions: http://www.actionresearch.net/.
Northwestern University's Asset-Based Community Development Institute. This site offers significant resources on best practices in partnership, working collaborative, and community-engaged research. The resources and publications express the ethos of participatory action research, and demonstrate the importance of that ethos in all community-university interactions: http://www.abcdinstitute.org/.
For more information on human rights concerns and activism at the US/Mexico border see No More Deaths/No Mas Muertes: http://www.nomoredeaths.org/.
Chapter 13: Elite interviews
UK’s Economic and Social Research Council - Framework for Research Ethics: http://www.esrc.ac.uk/_images/Framework_for_Research_Ethics_tcm8-4586.pdf
School of Americas Watch (an NGO that campaigns against US training of Latin American military forces): http://www.soaw.org/
The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (a US training institute for Latin American military forces): https://www.benning.army.mil/tenant/whinsec/
The Torture Archive - Comprehensive set of declassified documents on the use of torture by the US military and intelligence agencies: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/torture_archive/index.htm
The Rendition Project (website for Ruth Blakeley’s research on rendition, secret detention and torture): www.therenditionproject.org.uk
Chapter 14: Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software
CAQDAS Networking Project based at the University of Surrey:http://www.surrey.ac.uk/sociology/research/researchcentres/caqdas/
QSR International NVivo Free Trial Software: http://www.qsrinternational.com/products_free-trial-software.aspx
Provalis Research producers of WordStat and QDA Miner: http://www.provalisresearch.com/
ATLAS.ti Free Trial Version: http://www.atlasti.com/demo.html
Coding Analysis Toolkit is free open source software for data text data analysis developed at the University of Pittsburgh: http://cat.ucsur.pitt.edu/
Chapter 15: Network analysis
The Homepage of INSNA, the professional association for researchers interested in social network analysis. http://www.insna.org
Vladimir Batagelj’s website dedicated to Graph Theory and SNA, containing a wide range of resources: software (including Pajek), algorithms, research projects and datasets. http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/vlado/vladonet.htm
Robert A. Hanneman and Mark Riddle’s online introduction to social network methods. http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~hanneman/nettext/
Ulrike Gretzel’s website offering an introduction to SNA and further resources.
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/tse-portal/analysis/social-network-analysis/
Analythic Technologies’s website, where UCINET can be purchased from and free software such as NetDraw and Anthropac can be downloaded from. http://www.analytictech.com/
Chapter 16: Predication, presupposition and subject-positioning
An introduction to James Der Derian’s exploration of the Military-Industrial-Media-Entertainment-Network (MIME-NET) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XLUI6sM8nQ
Amnesty International has been documenting human rights abuses in the wake of the “War on Terrorism” http://www.amnesty.org/en/campaigns/security-with-human-rights
The BBC took stock of the ‘War on Terrorism’ a few years ago http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/americas/2006/11_september_five_years_on/default.stm
Human Rights Watch has authored a number of reports on terrorism worldwide http://www.hrw.org/category/topic/terrorism
Kyle Grayson’s (Newcastle University) blog Chasing dragons critically explores issues related to security, politics, and culture http://www.chasingdragons.org/
Chapter 17: Deconstruction as ‘anti-Method’
An essay called ‘The Recession in Pink and Blue’ by Nancy Folbre at http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com.
The Kitchen Sisters began their radio lives producing a weekly live radio program in the late 70’s on KUSP-FM in Santa Cruz, California. Their website is at http://www.kitchensisters.org/. In particular, see‘The Hidden World of Girls’, to be presented by Tina Fey, Fall 2011 (US), http://www.kitchensisters.org/girlstories/).
The gender perspectives of the financial crisis by WomenWatch at http://www.un.org/womenwatch/feature/financialcrisis/.
Derrida, a film by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman, document, one of the most visionary and influential thinkers of the 20th century, a man who single-handedly altered the way many of us look at history, language, art, and, ultimately, ourselves:
http://www.derridathemovie.com/home.html.
Chapter 18: Visual analysis and the aesthetics of security
The Imperial War Museum (IWM) in London frequently holds art work, video installations, films and imagery taken by acclaimed war photographs and soldiers alike. http://www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-london
The Rory Peck Trust, established in 1995, is a charitable organisation which supports independent and freelance journalists who have documented major news stories. http://www.rorypecktrust.org/
The Tate Gallery includes details of some official British war artists. Use the search facility, or search via the name of an artist, to look for images by official British war artists. http://www.tate.org.uk/collection/
Channel Four has a range of articles, video clips, details of documentaries and stories related to imagery and war, and visual security issues. http://www.channel4.com/
Beyond web-pages devoted to particular war photographers, the BBC website http://www.bbc.co.uk/ includes numerous stories, archives of radio programmes, and details of documentaries about incidents, events and visual aspects of security. See, for example, http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7675000/7675450.stm
Chapter 19: Conclusion: The process, practice and ethics of research
Research Ethics Guidebook is an online resource for social science researchers with advice on issues including project design and research methods: http://www.ethicsguidebook.ac.uk/
Jackson, P. (2009) ‘What the Philosophy of Social Science is not good for’: a critical engagement with recent debates over the scientific status of International Relations as an academic discipline: http://www.e-ir.info/?p=612
Attwood, R. (2007) ‘Terrorism Studies Surge’. An article in the Times Higher Education detailing the rise of terrorism studies in the early twentieth century: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=209404§ioncode=26
Global Uncertainties homepage: An RCUK research programme on contemporary security challenges containing information on recent and ongoing projects in this field: http://www.globaluncertainties.org.uk/
UK Data Archive: A digital archive of qualitative and quantitative research data for social science researchers: http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/