Dialogue 2 Just War
Getting Started: Good Reference Sources:
Print Sources:
| REF DT2 .N48 2008 |
New Encyclopedia of Africa |
| REF JF37 .P6 2008 |
Political Handbook of the World |
| REF JC571 .E67 1996 |
Encyclopedia of Human Rights |
CQ Researcher: Good summaries of current events and some of the complexities of attempted aid.
Searching the Library Catalog
Books (reference or general) and films can be found using the online catalog. To start your search:
- Go to the library website and click on catalog/books.
- Click on the Advanced Search tab.
- Type, trying to use at least two search boxes to express separate ideas about your paper. (For example, try searching for the country you are researching and "war.")
- Click on the Search button.
Confused? Ask a reference librarian or try our catalog help sheet.
Possible search words to use:
- just war doctrine
- intervention (international law)
- war--religious aspects--Christianity
- Rwanda
- Somalia
Finding Database Articles:
Because you can potentially take your research in several directions, there are many potential databases that you can use. The following are just places to begin your research. Find a list of all library databases on the Databases and Online Resources page.
Academic Search Premier: a good range of scholarly and popular articles. Some full-text available. Search words: use the same search words as you did in the catalog. Lexis Nexis: full-text of newspaper articles across the world. This can give you up-to-the-minute data on some of the crises. Search words: your country and "crisis" or "intervention" and other search words you discovered in your work with books and the catalog. JSTOR: full-text of a variety of scholarly articles (articles start around 2003 and go back). JSTOR can help you get detailed cultural, political, or international perspectives on your topics. Search words: your country, politics, or culture, or crisis. Project Muse: full-text database of scholarly articles that are more current than those in JSTOR. Use this database to fill in cultural and political information. Search words: use the words from JSTOR. SAGE Premier: a full-text database of scholarly articles, many of which are found in the social sciences. Helpful Webpages:
United Nations official website. Links to country profiles, reactions to crises, and reports about the interventions and the consequences of intervention. (Try searching with Google and using an advanced search. Use the "site:www.un.org" command.) White House official website. See documents related to the United States' course of action. (Use the same "site:www.whitehouse.gov" Google search command.) The State Department website also has some sources worth perusing.