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Cluster 48: Political Violence in the Modern World: Cases, and Consequences

Selected Web-based Resources & Organizations

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume XXVI, Indonesia; Malaysia-Singapore; Philippines. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v26

Human Rights Watchwww.hrw.org

Human Rights Webwww.hrweb.org

International Association of Genocide Scholarshttp://www.genocidescholars.org/

International Criminal Court (ICC)http://www.icc-cpi.int/EN_Menus/ICC/Pages/default.aspx

Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD)http://www.niod.nl/en

Prevent Genocide International www.preventgenocide.org/

Relief Web - http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf

United Nations http://www.un.org/en/

U.S. Declassified Documents Online. A database of some 70,000 declassified US government documents. - http://gdc.galegroup.com/gdc/artemis?p=USDD&u=uclosangeles

USC Shoah Foundation, Center for Advanced Genocide Research (CAGR)http://sfi.usc.edu/cagr

Watch Indonesiahttp://www.watchindonesia.org/?lang=en 

 

 

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