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PWAD 364: Post-Conflict and Peacebuilding Contexts: UN & Government Info

United Nations

The Dag Hammarskjöld Library
The Dag Hammarskjöld Library provides research and information to support the work of United Nations Member States and also aids in the dissemination of UN information. (From website).

UNdata
Provides simultaneous access to 14 statistical databases from the United Nations and other international organizations through one interface. Areas of coverage include agriculture, education, energy, industry, labor, national accounts, population, tourism and trade. Includes Millennium Development Goals indicators, and UN Key Global Indicators.
Access: No restrictions.
United Nations Treaty Collection
Contains information regarding the activities of the Treaty Section of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs.
Access: No restrictions.
United Nations Digital Library
The United Nations Digital Library includes UN documents, voting data, speeches, maps, and open access publications. The platform provides access to UN-produced materials in digital format and bibliographic records for print UN documents starting in 1979. System features include linked data between related documentation such as resolutions, meeting records and voting, and refining of searches by UN body, agency or type of document.

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Access: No restrictions.

ProQuest Congressional
Comprehensive source of current and historical U.S. Congressional material, including bills, testimony, reports, documents, selected prints, the Congressional Record, the U.S. Code, Federal Register, and the Code of Federal Regulations.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1789-
Foreign Relations of the United States
The Foreign Relations of the United States series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication.
Access: No restrictions.
Coverage: 1861 - 1960

Major State Department Publications
Contains country annual reports featuring Human Rights Practices, Terrorism, Foreign Relations of the U.S., and others.

Digital National Security Archive
Contains a comprehensive set of declassified government documents and is a strong complement to the Declassified Documents Reference System. Includes collections of important primary source materials relative to U.S. foreign policy since 1945, accompanied by reference and secondary material.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1945 -
U.S. Intelligence on the Middle East, 1945-2009
Consists of 189 documents edited by Matthew M. Aid "... on the U.S. intelligence ... in the Arab world, including the Middle East, the Near East, and North Africa. It covers the time period from the end of World War II to the present day, up until the 2002-2003 Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) assessments, the Global War on Terror, the Iraq War, and Iran's nuclear program."
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1945-2009

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
Working documents of the British government for all areas of social, political, economic and foreign policy, showing how issues were explored and legislation was formed. With all collections available, HCPP includes over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material back to 1688. HCPP delivers page images and searchable full text for each paper, along with detailed indexing.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
British Parliamentary Debates 1803-2005
Transcripts from the British House of Commons and House of Lords, 1803-2005. Search by speaker, Member of Parliament or topic. For the working documents of the British government, see House of Commons Parliamentary Papers.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
British Cabinet Papers, 1915-1980
Core records of the British Cabinet from 1915 to 1980 have been digitised, and their full text is searchable online from these web pages. These include: conclusions of Cabinet meetings, Cabinet memoranda, Cabinet Secretary's notebooks, and the Cabinet Office precedent books.
Access: No restrictions.