Western Libraries

Social Justice and Peace Studies

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Databases

  • ABI/Inform Global

    A scholarly and comprehensive way to explore and understand business research topics. It contains world wide detailed coverage of business, economic and political conditions by indexing and abstracting the information that is contained in over 3,000 journals and magazines. Full text is provided for over 2,000 of the periodicals.

  • ABI/Inform Trade & Industry

    This database consists of over 2,000 publications covering a wide variety of industries in many different geographical areas. The full-text is available for nearly 1,900 publications and users can study and compare specific trades and industries, including telecommunications, computing, transportation, construction, petrochemicals, and many others.

  • ProQuest Research Library

    ProQuest Research Library provides one-stop access to more than 4,000 periodicals from one of the broadest, most inclusive general reference databases ProQuest has to offer. Search from a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, and magazines covering over 150 academic disciplines

  • ProQuest Social Sciences

    This is an important database as it searches 28 other databases such as ABI/Inform Global, CBCA Reference & Current Events, International Bibliographies of the Social Sciences, PAIS, World Wide Political Science Abstracts, ProQuest Research Library, and Sociological Abstracts.

  • SocINDEX

    SocINDEX gives coverage to all the major sub-disciplines in sociology. (1895-current)

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Dictionaries

  • Dictionary of Human Rights
    Addresses the concepts, thinkers, institutions, and terminology relevant to the study of human rights. Also links related terms via a thesaurus-like functionality. 
  • Historical Dictionary of Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations
    Gives an alphabetical listing of national, international, governmental, and private human rights organizations. Also includes entries on persons of note, events, movements, and treatises relevant to the human rights agenda.
  • Historical Dictionary of the "Dirty Wars"
    This resource details human rights violations perpetrated by the Chilean, Argentinean, and Uruguayan regimes during the 1970s-1980s.  More-or-less the only reference work which deals with these regimes during this period.
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Directories

  • Global Directory of Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution Programs
    Provides details and contact information about the (degree-bearing) peace and conflict resolution programs in North America. An incredibly valuable resource for the student considering higher education in these areas. Also includes a comprehensive listing of journals having to do with peace and conflict resolution.
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Encyclopedias

  • Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace
    A 4 volume set which aims for global multicultural coverage of peace in its articles which are cross-referenced. Volume 1 contains a list of entries and a chronology of peace in history and volume 4 contains appendixes with key documents, negotiation terms and more.
  • Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice

    This three-volume encyclopedia, available online, is designed for readers to understand the topics, concepts, and ideas that motivate and shape the fields of activism, civil engagement, and social justice and includes biographies of the major thinkers and leaders who have influenced and continue to influence the study of activism.

  • Encyclopedia of Homelessness

    Essentially the only reference resource soley to homelessness. Covers the origins, research, and prevention strategies to combat homelessness.

  • Encyclopedia of Human Rights
    A five volume set which covers human rights under the categories of rights, organizations, persons and situations focussing between 1945 and the present with most entries being in-depth analyses rather than superficial descriptions. Volume 5 contains a topical outline of each article, a listing of contributors and the set index.
  • Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, & Conflict

    Covering topics as diverse as Arms Control, Peace Movements, Child Abuse, Folklore, Terrorism and Political Assassinations, this three volume Encyclopedia comprehensively addresses an extensive information area in 225 multi-disciplinary, cross-referenced and authoritatively authored articles.

  • International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics

    Gives treatment to the politics of environmentalism on a global scale.  Coverage areas include issues, actors, policies, movements, countries/regions, and more.  The focus is largely international, though local and national interests are given representation.    

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Multimedia

  • Suggested Videos
    The Winter Roundtable of Columbia University's Teachers College  is the longest running conference devoted solely to cultural issues in psychology and education with emphasis on race, ethnicity, social class, gender, sexual orientation and religious affiliation. This series of dvds is produced by Microtraining and Multicultural Development Firm.
  • Creating a Poverty-Free World
    Muhammad Yunus, leader of the microcredit revolution, discusses how microfinance can aid in the eradication of poverty.
  • The Fallen Feather: Indian Industrial Residential Schools Canadian Confederation
    The fallen feather provides an in-depth critical analysis of the driving forces behind the creation of Canadian Indian Residential Schools. Using historical source documents, survivors' personal testimonies and detailed analysis from community leaders, the film explores in detail, the Federal Government's primary motivation in the creation of these schools. The film argues that the lasting effects that First Nations in Canada suffer today, can be traced back directly to their experiences within these schools. Finally, we as Canadians are all challenged to re-examine our shared history.
  • Homelessness: The "Housing First" Approach
    Portland, Oregon has set an ambitious target to end homelessness by 2015. Their mantra is "housing first." No matter how people wind up on the streets - drug addiction, mental illness, crime or bad luck - they get a home first. Then a city-wide web of support workers help them find solutions for any other issues. With 1500 chronically homeless placed in permanent housing in three years, clearly Portland is doing something right. Now, the city of Victoria, BC is trying to learn and apply Portland's comprehensive and collaborative approach.
  • Strong Coffee: The Story of Cafe Femenino
    Café Femenino, a Peruvian women’s coffee co-operative, is a unique concept which is breaking the chains of machismo, improving relationships between women and men, uplifting families, increasing levels of education, improving quality of life, and helping women in need all over the world.
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News Sources

  • ALT-Press Watch
    ALT-Press Watch is a full-text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from alternative and independent presses.
  • CBCA Current Events
    CBCA Current Events is a Canadian resource indexing newspapers, newswires, newsmagazines as well as television and radio transcripts.
  • Ethnic NewsWatch Complete
    Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW) is a comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Continuously growing since 1991, Ethnic NewsWatch is now a collection of nearly 700,000 full text articles from 240 publications.
  • LexisNexis
    Licensed to western users only, LexisNexis provides access to over 2300 newspapers, journals, newsletters and broadcast transcripts. Most of the items in LexisNexis are available as full text articles. There are relatively few academic journals in this database.
  • Independent Media Center
    A news site which reports on a variety of social justice issues, many of which are given short shrift by the mainstream media. Also lists a number of volunteer opportunities.  Updated frequently, with well-written pieces. 
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