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• FGM

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2015/02/13/fgm/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 13, 2015 Last week the UK’s first prosecution for female genital mutilation (FGM) failed amid controversy.  A cademics discuss whether the case should have been bought at all.

• US Election Advertising

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/23/us-election-advertising/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 23, 2012  Electad: http://electad.com/  An independent site which claims that it posts all examples from the different campaigns online. The site also indexes polls, tweets and interviews.

• Charitable giving

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/04/20/charitable-giving/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 20, 2012 For research on charitable giving try these resources. Charities Aid foundation publishes UK giving   https://www.cafonline.org/publications/2011-publications/uk-giving-2011.

• Measuring Peace in the Media 2011

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/04/27/measuring-peace-in-the-media-2011/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2012 The Institute for Economics & Peace produces a number of indexes which measure levels of peace and conflict worldwide.

• Peace

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/07/02/peace/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 2, 2012 The Peace Accords Matrix from the  Kroc Institute of International peace studies. http://peaceaccords.nd.

• The 4th work-life balance employee survey

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/07/20/the-fourth-work-life-balance-employee-survey/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on July 20, 2012 From the Department for Business Innovation & Skills and carried out in early 2011: http://www.bis.gov.

• American Presidential Nominations

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/09/07/american-presidential-nominations/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 7, 2012 The American presidency project http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/nomination.php has a database of presidential nomination acceptance speeches from 1880 onwards.

• ICAI – Independent commission for aid impact

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/13/icai-independent-commission-for-aid-impact/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 13, 2012 The independent body responsible for the scrutiny of UK aid. A useful starting point for considering effectiveness. Reports from 2011 onwards are online. http://icai.independent.gov.

• Journalists in danger

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/04/journalists-in-danger/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 4, 2013 A Day Without News http://adaywithoutnews.com/ Grassroots campaign with UN support to highlight the growing numbers of journalists who have been killed and injured in armed conflict.

• UN and other peacekeeping sites

  https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/31/un-and-other-peacekeeping-sites/

  Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 31, 2013 Useful UN materials include Official twitter account for the latest news. Past missions with a  timeline of past missions.