Resources

As I was doing research for some papers I am writing I came across a lot of good resources that I thought might be useful for some of you who are continuing to pursue International Relations/Conflict Resolution studies.

HEIDELBERG INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT RESEARCH (HIIK)
2006 Conflict Barometer: An annual report of all Crisis, Wars, Coups d’état, Negotiations, Mediations, and Peace Settlements of that year.
http://www.hiik.de/konfliktbarometer/pdf/ConflictBarometer_2006.pdf (See page 4 for a map with a listing of all conflicts from that year).

The Ibrahim Index of African Governance
Released approximately every 2 years and measures the progress or failures of the 48 Sub-Saharan African countries on categories such as:
-Safety and Security
-Rule of Law, Transparency
-Participation and Human Rights
-Sustainable Economic Opportunity
-Human Development
They average the ranking from these categories to reach the ranking on the Ibrahim Index. The 2007 report (from the data of 2005), lists Somalia as the worst governed nation in Sub-Saharan Africa.
http://www.moibrahimfoundation.org/index/overall.pdf

United Nations
And last, there is more information that you can ever possibly read available on the UN Website through their database. Just do a simple search for whatever document you are looking for at, http://documents.un.org/simple.asp

For example, there are a number of committees that release annual reports on the signatories to the respective Covenant and list that country's progression in these areas, and what still needs to be done.

Here is a report from 2007 on the Civil and Political Rights in the UK.
http://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G07/411/99/pdf/G0741199.pdf?OpenElement
(see page 42 for the committee’s responses)

Other committee include:
-Right to Development
-Sovereignty on Natural Resources
-Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries
-Convention Against Genocide
-Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
-Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
-Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities
-Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief
-Rights of indigenous peoples
-Race and Racial Prejudice
-International Law Concerning Friendly Relations Among Nations

Hope this helps in your research whether personal or academic.