InfoGuides: Evaluating Peacebuilding Projects: Find Articles

Key Databases

Peace Research Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Abstracts of literature concerning peace studies, conflict studies, and international relations.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) This link opens in a new window
Full text of more than 400 working papers, 40 conference proceedings, as well as abstracts from leading international relations research journals, brief reports, monthly statistics and maps.
Center for Security Sources - Resources This link opens in a new window
Provides products and resources to encourage the exchange of information among international relations and security professionals worldwide.
Social Science Database This link opens in a new window
Indexing and full text of academic journals, covering social science disciplines like anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work and sociology.
Criminal Justice Database This link opens in a new window
Supports research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends.
Legal Collection This link opens in a new window
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Collection of scholarly publications, indexing and abstract on disciplines such as law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, and ethics.

Getting started:

Use the following search statement as a model when searching for resources on monitoring and evaluations:

"Program Name" AND (outcome OR effectiv* OR evaluat* OR assess* OR impact)

Troubleshooting tips:

Too many results?
- Consider focusing on a particular aspect of the program, or its impact on a particular demographic group.
Too few results?
- Does the program go by other names? Add these to your search statement.
- Is the program relatively new? If so, there may not be many evaluations.
- Consider searching for evaluations of similar programs.
Results not focused on your program?
- Using the advanced search screen, tell the database to search for your program name in the article title only.
Need more quantitative studies?
- Try adding something like this to your search statement: AND (data OR empirical OR regression OR "statistically significant").
Other questions?
- Email moberlie@gmu.edu or hmcmanus@gmu.edu