Guides, Handbooks and Encyclopedias

Europa World Yearbook

Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
HV6322.7 E532 2005 REF (Amherst, Smith)

Encyclopedia of Genocide
HV 6322.7 E53 1999 REF (UMass, Smith)

Encyclopedia of Human Rights Issues Since 1945
JC 571 L2747 1999 REF

Encyclopedia of Human Rights
JC 571 E67 1996 REF

Genocide: a critical bibliographic review
HV6542  G45 1988   REF

The Greenwood encyclopedia of women's issues worldwide. Sub-Saharan Africa
HQ1788  G74 2003 REF (UMass, Smith)

International Law: A Dictionary
KZ 1161 B63 2005 REF

The Media and the Rwanda Genocide

Oxford Companion to Politics of the World
JA61 O95 2001 REF

The Media in Africa and Africa in the Media: an annotated bibliography
P92.A4 W35 1996 REF (Smith)

Prevention and Intervention of Genocide: an annotated bibliography
HV6322.7 T68 2007 REF (Smith)

Case and Materials on the International Legal System
KZ1242.5 .C375 2001 UMass

A selected socio-legal bibliography on ethnic cleansing, wartime rape, and genocide in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda
K5302.A12 Z39 2005 REF (Amherst, Smith)

Finding Books

• The best way to find a book on your topic is to start with a search in the Library Catalog. Once you've found something of interest, you should also browse the stacks in that particular area.
  If you wish to broaden your search to include books from libraries outside of the valley, you can also search WorldCat.
  
  
• Possible Subject Headings to use in the Library Catalog:
  

  Sample Subject Headings:
  
  Rwanda History Civil War 1994
  
  Genocide
  
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 
  
  International Criminal Courts
  International Tribunal for Rwanda
  International Law Cases
  

• You can also do keyword searches of the online library catalogs to locate essays within books. Note: this usually only works for books published in the last decade.
  
  

Searching for Articles

Periodical Indexes (Secondary Sources)


Historical Abstracts

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences

PAIS International/Public Affairs Information Service

Social Sciences Citation Index

Expanded Academic Index

Current Bibliography on African Affairs
Z 3501 C8 REF



Periodical Indexes (Primary Sources)

Lexis-Nexis (Contemporary Newspapers: US and European Newspapers and Law Reviews)

AllAfrica.com

Africa Section/Great Lakes (BBC World Service)

BBC Monitoring Service

World News Connection

Reader's Guide Retrospective (1890 -1982)

PAIS Archive: Public Affairs Information Service (1916 - 1976)

Document Collections (Primary Sources)

Amnesty International

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
JC 571 U48a (Current in REF)

European Commissioner for Human Rights

Government of Rwanda

Human Rights Watch

International Documentation Network on the African Great Lakes Region

IRIN: humanitarian news and analysis (UN)

Prevent Genocide International

Preventing Genocide: how the early use of force might have succeeded in Rwanda (Carnegie)

ReliefWeb

Rwanda: accountability for war crimes and genocide (U.S. Institute of Peace)

Rwanda: the preventable Genocide. (OAU)

United Nations

United Nations Commissioner on Human Rights

The US and the Genocide in Rwanda (National Security Archive)

Legal Sources

Lexis-Nexis (EU Law and European Court of Justice cases)

European Court of Human Rights

Bibliography on Foreign and Comparative Law
K 38 B53

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

Sources for International Legal Research

Research Guides

Getting Started On Research MHC Guide

Writing and Citing Tools

 

Searching the Web

Africa South of the Sahara (Stanford U. Research Guide)

African Studies Internet Resources (Columbia U. Research Guide)

Having trouble finding what you need? Go to LITS and chat with a librarian at the Reference Desk. Or, with advance notice, set up an appointment to meet with Bryan Goodwin, Politics liaison. We're here to help you with your research!