DEMOCRATIZATION AND CIVIL SOCIETY

The limitations of democracy: it’s a concept that, even after the debacle of the neocon democratisation mission, remains poorly fleshed out in the public domain.
CTlab- Complex Terrain Laboratory

The Atlantic Human Rights Centre. Includes the texts of lectures by distinguished Canadian jurists and lawyers in the annual Dr. Bernie Vigod Lecture Series on Human Rights, as well as links to other useful sources.
Atlantic Human Rights Centre

The National Endowment for Democracy
The National Endowment for Democracy

Human Rights Internet. International NGO, Documentation Center and Publishing House. Among its publications is Human Rights Internet Reporter, which lists abstracts and indexes of thousands of human rights related publications. HRI is also presently working on putting its "in-house" databases on-line, including more than 10,000 bibliographic abstracts of the literature from various non-governmental, inter-governmental, and academic sources.
HRI - Human Right Internet

International Center for Human Rights and Democratic Development. Lists publications, reports, press releases, and links to other resources and databases on human rights and democracy on the internet. Its "Impunity-Info" is published quarterly and offers concise coverage of genocide trials, truth commissions and the issue of impunity today.
Droits et Démocratie - Rights & Democracy

One World Homepage. "A community of over 150 leading global justice organizations under one roof."
OneWorld.net

"PeaceNet/IGC is the only unionized Internet service provider in the United States." Information on "peace, social and economic justice, human rights and the struggle against racism."
Peacenet

Country Indicators for foreign policy: The cross-national data generated through CIFP was intended to have a variety of applications in government departments, NGOs, and by users in the private sector. The data set provides at-a-glance global overviews, issue-based perspectives and country performance measures. Currently, the data set includes measures of domestic armed conflict, governance and political instability, militarization, religious and ethnic diversity, demographic stress, economic performance, human development, environmental stress, and international linkages. The CIFP database currently includes statistical data in the above issue areas, in the form of over one hundred performance indicators for 196 countries, spanning fifteen years (1985 to 2000) for most indicators. These indicators are drawn from a variety of open sources, including the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, and the Minorities at Risk and POLITY IV data sets from the University of Maryland.
Country Indicators for foreign policy

Reform The UN.org: ReformtheUN.org provides up-to-date information and resources about UN reform. UN reform has been discussed practically since its inception in 1945. Initial suggested reforms focused on making amendments to the Charter itself. Since then, the debate has shifted to the organization of the relevant bodies. The current phase of the UN reform debate was initiated and supported by the Secretary General. In September 2005 governments will come together to make some of these decisions.
Reform The UN.org

Responsibility to Protect- Engaging Civil Society: The Responsibility to Protect populations from genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against humanity is an international commitment by governments to prevent and react to grave crises, wherever they may occur. In 2005, world leaders agreed, for the first time, that states have a primary responsibility to protect their own populations and that the international community has a responsibility to act when these governments fail to protect the most vulnerable. The Responsibility to Protect-Engaging Civil Society (R2PCS) project works to advance Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and to promote concrete policies to better enable governments, regional organizations and the U.N. to protect vulnerable populations.
Responsibility to Protect (Yahoo Group)

U.S. State Department’s Country Reports
US Department of State