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Human Impact Project: War and Conflict

Overview

  • terrorism, nuclear weapons and disarmament, famine, cyber security, physical and emotional trauma ...

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War & Conflict Topic Ideas

Topic

Sub topic

Resources

Weapons and Disarmament

Nuclear Terrorism

 

Bioterrorism

 

Cyberterrorism

 

Radiological terrorism  

 

Landmines

http://www.nti.org/about/

 

https://www.sipri.org/databases

 

https://www.un.org/disarmament/convarms/landmines/

Specific Regions or areas of Conflict

East China Sea

 

West China Sea

 

Israel and the Middle East

 

Afghanistan

 

Iraq

 

North Korea

 

Libya

 

Yemen

 

Turkey (PKK Conflict)

 

Ukraine

 

South Sudan

 

Myanmar

 

Mexico

 

Syria

https://www.cfr.org/interactives/global-conflict-tracker#!/conflict/tensions-in-the-east-china-sea

 

https://www.cfr.org/interactives/global-conflict-tracker#!/conflict/territorial-disputes-in-the-south-china-sea

 

http://www.justvision.org/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/middle_east/03/v3_ip_timeline/html/

 

https://www.hrw.org/legacy/backgrounder/asia/afghan-bck1023.htm

https://www.cfr.org/interactives/global-conflict-tracker#!/conflict/taliban-in-afghanistan

 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/warriors/

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/bushswar/

 

http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21730328-iraqi-leaders-act-retake-city-and-its-oilfields-kurds-new-war?zid=312&ah=da4ed4425e74339883d473adf5773841

 

https://www.cfr.org/interactives/global-conflict-tracker#!/conflict/north-korea-crisis

 

https://www.cfr.org/interactives/global-conflict-tracker#!/conflict/civil-war-in-libya

 

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=55765#.Whq3T1WnG02

 

https://www.cfr.org/interactives/global-conflict-tracker#!/conflict/war-in-yemen

 

https://www.acleddata.com/dashboard/ (Choose Yemen Crisis under Crisis Profile

 

https://www.crisisgroup.org/europe-central-asia/western-europemediterranean/turkey/turkeys-pkk-conflict-veers-more-violent-path

 

https://www.cfr.org/interactives/global-conflict-tracker#!/conflict/conflict-in-ukraine

 

https://www.crisisgroup.org/africa/horn-africa/sudan

http://savedarfur.org/the-conflict/

 

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2017/country-chapters/south-sudan

 

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/23/opinions/myanmar-rohingya-genocide/index.html

 

https://www.cfr.org/interactives/global-conflict-tracker#!/conflict/sectarian-violence-in-myanmar

 

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/02/world/americas/mexico-drug-war-fast-facts/index.html

 

https://www.cfr.org/interactives/global-conflict-tracker#!/conflict/criminal-violence-in-mexico

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35806229

Militant Groups

Boko Haram

 

Al Qaeda

 

Islamic State

 

Lord’s Resistance Army

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-13809501

https://www.cfr.org/interactives/global-conflict-tracker#!/conflict/boko-haram-in-nigeria

 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/network/alqaeda/indictment.html

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29052144

 

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/organization/lords-resistance-army

Still stuck for a topic? Check out this interactive resource:

https://www.cfr.org/interactives/global-conflict-tracker#!/global-conflict-tracker

 

https://www.acleddata.com/