Favorite Websites

For getting your creative juices going and because I love because the way it admits its conflicted feelings/dilemmas:

http://rightbrainblog.co.uk

The website associated with this blog and slowly acquiring conflict toolkits is:

http://www.conflict-toolkit.com/

Conflict Resolution Information is a very comprehensive source of conflict resolution material based at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA with a rather different perspective from this blog:

http://www.crinfo.org/

The Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation (and source code for interest based bargaining) website is at:

http://www.pon.harvard.edu/

The Uppsala Conflict Data Base is a great source of information on continuing world violent conflicts since 1975 at:

http://www.pcr.uu.se/research/UCDP/#

I love maps and this site gives you maps that will inform and change how you view the under pinnings of global conflict:

http://www.worldmapper.org/

The Stockholm Peace Research Institute has great information on international conflict and military expenditures  at:

http://www.sipri.org/

And the University of Bradford, UK Peace Studies Department focusing on peace initiatives is at:

http://www.brad.ac.uk/peace/index.php

And I love this website which makes our political difference at least two dimensional rather than Left/Right linear:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/

The Moral Values team at the University of Virginia under Jonathan Haidt are doing great work on the under pinnings of conservative and liberal politics and can be found at:

http://www.yourmorals.org/

You can see a Adobe play map of the world’s 20th century conflicts at the Nobel Prize for Peace site:

http://nobelprize.org/educational/peace/conflictmap/conflictmap.html

Jerome Slater’s blog on the Middle East:

http://www.jeromeslater.com/

I have just found Peace Mapping a site that uses graphics to help brainstorm creative new approaches to conflict at:

http://peacemapping.com/