Guides: Media Activism: Peace

Swarthmore College Peace Collection (SCPC)

The Swarthmore College Peace Collection documents non-governmental efforts for nonviolent social change, disarmament, and conflict resolution between peoples.

Databases

Peace Research Abstracts
Bibliographic citations with abstracts describing all aspects of peace research, including the causes and correlates of conflict, case studies in conflict, tension, and war, international laws and conventions on peace and conflict, diplomacy, negotiation, and international relations, international organizations and nations and their policies on peace and conflict, military organization and policy, political and social movements, conflict resolution and peacekeeping, and arms control and disarmament.
AccessUN
Topics of concern to the United Nations through its publications and documents: international affairs and diplomacy, political science, contemporary history, international law, peacekeeping, human rights, trade and economic development, environmental affairs, international statistics and demography, public administration, and atomic energy.

Organizations/Websites

Metta Center for Nonviolence
Provide educational resources on the safe and effective use of nonviolence, with the recognition that it’s not about putting the right person in power but awakening the right kind of power in people.
Waging Nonviolence
News site for original news and analysis about struggles for justice and peace around the globe.
International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC)
Independent, non-profit educational foundation that develops and encourages the study and use of civilian-based, nonmilitary strategies aimed at establishing and defending human rights, democratic self-rule and justice worldwide.

Selected Books

Citizens' Media Against Armed Conflict by Clemencia Rodríguez
Call Number: PN5052 .R53 2011
ISBN: 9780816665839
Publication Date: 2011-09-19
For two years, Clemencia Rodriguez did fieldwork in regions of Colombia where leftist guerillas, right-wing paramilitary groups, the army, and drug traffickers made their presence felt in the lives of unarmed civilians. Here, he tells the story of the ways in which people living in the shadow of these armed intruders use community radio, television, video, digital photography, and the Internet to shield their communities from armed violence.

Peacetech Lab

The PeaceTech Lab (United States Institute of Peace)
Project of the USIP, works at the intersection of technology, media, and data to devise means of reducing violent conflict around the world.

The Dhamma Brothers

2007 film about an overcrowded maximum-security prison that is dramatically changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program.