Resources

Websites

Organisations operating, or that have operated, in Iraq

• NGO Coordination Committee in Iraq, NCCI www.ncciraq.org
• Reliefweb http://www.reliefweb.int
• UN Assistance Mission for Iraq http://www.uniraq.org/
• Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs http://ochaonline.un.org/
• IRIN News http://www.IRINnews.org
• UNICEF http://www.unicef.org
• World Food Programme http://www.wfp.org/country_brief/indexcountry.asp?country=368
• United Nations Development Programme http://www.iq.undp.org/
• World Health Organization http://www.who.int/country/irq/en/
• Food and Agriculture Organization http://www.fao.org
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees http://www.unhcr.org
• Red Cross Movement: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Iraq http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/iraq?OpenDocument
• The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)/Iraqi Red Crescent http://www.ifrc.org/where/country/cn5.asp?countryid=87
• Save the Children http://www.savethechildren.org.uk
• Merlin http://www.merlin.org.uk/
• International Medical Corps http://www.imcworldwide.org
• War Child http://www.warchild.org
• Medair http://www.medair.org/
• OXFAM http://www.oxfam.org/
• Islamic Relief http://www.islamic-relief.com/submenu/Appeal/iraq.htm
• Christian Aid http://www.christian-aid.org.uk/
• CAFOD http://www.cafod.org.uk/where_we_work/middle_east/iraq

Research guides/sites

• Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement http://www.brook.edu/fp/projects/idp/about_us.htm
• Brookings Institution Iraq Index http://www.brookings.edu/iraqindex
• Refugees International www.refugeesinternational.org
• INCORE guide to Internet sources on conflict and ethnicity in Iraq http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/services/cds/countries/Iraq.html
• Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern resources http://www.ex.ac.uk/library/internet/arabic.html
• Columbia University: Middle East and Jewish Studies research guide http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/mideast/cuvlm/Iraq.html
• United States Institute of Peace Iraq web links http://www.usip.org/library/regions/iraq.html
• The Economist http://www.economist.com/countries/Iraq/
• Arab Net http://www.arab.net/iraq/
• Arab Gateway: quick briefing on Iraq http://www.al-bab.com/arab/countries/iraq.htm
• The CIA World Factbook 2007 https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
• Library of Congress Federal Research Division Country Studies http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/iqtoc.html
• Iraq Journal http://www.iraqjournal.org/
• Global IDP Database: Iraq Information Menu http://www.internal-displacement.org/8025708F004CE90B/(httpCountries)/718916EEB6743EEF802570A7004CB9B9?opendocument&count=10000
• International Crisis Group: Iraq Menu www.icg.org

Media

• Arab media http://www.al-bab.com/arab/newspapers.htm
• Reuters: latest Iraqi war news http://affiliate.espotting.com/search/redirector.asp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fi%2Ereuters%2Eco%2Euk%2Firaq%5Fes&bidid=74386427&searchguid
• Iraq Net Information Network http://www.iraq.net/
• BBC World News: Middle East http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/default.stm
• Daily Star (English language newspaper published in Beirut, Lebanon) http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
• Google News: Iraq http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=iraq&btnG=Search+News
• Iraq Daily, published by the World News Network (This is not the same publication previously published by the Iraq government under the same name) http://www.iraqdaily.com/
• Al-Jazeera (English version of Arabic Paper) http://english.aljazeera.net/
• Al-Jazeera (Arabic language website) http://www.aljazeera.net/
• Inter Press Service News Agency (IPS) News: Iraq http://www.ipsnews.net/iraq/index.asp
• Reporters Without Borders http://www.rsf.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=43
• UNWire http://www.smartbrief.com/un_wire/

Miscellaneous

• Conflict in Iraq: Concerns and Consequences, a website hosted by BASIC, ISIS and Saferworld http://www.iraqconflict.org/
• Global Policy Forum (monitors global policy making at the United Nations) http://www.globalpolicy.org/
  • on Iraq crisis: http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/irqindx.htm
  • on international law and war on Iraq: http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/attack/lawindex.htm
• Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq (CASI) http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/casi/
• The Iraq Foundation Website http://www.iraqfoundation.org/
• The Iraq Action Coalition (IAC) http://iraqaction.org/
• Development Gateway: Iraq Relief and Recovery http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/481546/

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Books and reports

• Baram, Amatzia. Between Impediment and Advantage: Saddam's Iraq. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 1998.

• Baram, Amatzia. 'The Effect of Iraqi Sanctions: Statistical Pitfalls and Responsibility'. Middle East Journal 54(2) (Spring 2000): pp. 194-223.

• Baram, Amatzia. 'Two Roads to Revolutionary Shi'ite Fundamentalism in Iraq'. In Accounting for Fundamentalism: The Dynamic Character of Movements, Martin E. Marty and Scott

• Appelby (eds.), Chicago: University of Chicago Press and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1994, pp. 531-590.

• Brown, Sarah Graham. Sanctioning Saddam. London, New York: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd., 1999.

• Brown, Sarah Graham, and Toensing, Chris. Why Another War? A Backgrounder on the Iraq Crisis. 2nd edition. Washington, DC: Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP), December, 2002. - http://www.merip.org/iraq_backgrounder_102202/iraq_background2_merip.pdf

• Butler, Richard. Greatest Threat: Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the Crisis of Global Security, 2000.

• Cockburn, Andrew and Cockburn, Patrick. Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein, 1999.

• Coughlin, Con. Saddam: King of Terror, Ecco, 2002.

• Dammers, Chris, 'Iraq', in Janie Hampton (ed.), Internally Displaced People: A Global Survey, London 1998

• Dabrowska, Karen. Iraq: The Bradt Travel Guide, USA, 2002.

• Farouk-Sluglett, Marion. Iraq Since 1958: From Revolution to Dictatorship, 1990.

• Forced Migration Review: Special Issue: Iraq’s Displacement Crisis: the search for solutions. June 2007, http://www.fmreview.org/iraq.htm

• Ghareeb, E., The Kurdish Question in Iraq, 1981.

• Hamzah, Khidr Abd Al-Abbas. Saddam's Bombmaker: The Terrifying Inside Story of the Iraqi Nuclear and Biological Weapons Agenda, 2000.

• Hansen, Greg, Briefing Paper: Taking Sides or Saving Lives: Existential Choices for the Humanitarian Enterprise in Iraq, Humanitarian Agenda 2015 Country Study, Feinstein International Center, June 2007, http://fic.tufts.edu/downloads/HA2015IraqCountryStudy.pdf

• Hiro, Dilip. Iraq: In the Eye of the Storm, 2002.

• Hiro, Dilip. Neighbors, Not Friends: Iraq and Iran After the Gulf Wars, 2001.

• Hoskins, Eric, Das, Rupen, Doebbler, Curtis, Dyregrov, Atle, Galanis, Kali, Koc, Mustafa, Nutt, Samantha, Raundalen, Magne, and Sutton, Tara, Our Common Responsibility: The Impact of a New War on Iraqi ChildrenReport of International Study Team. Toronto: War Child Canada, 20 January 2003. - http://www.reliefweb.int/library/documents/2003/wv-irq-26jan.pdf

• Ismael, T.Y., Iraq and Iran, 1982.

• Karsh, Efraim. Saddam Hussein: A Political Biography, 1991.

• Khalil, Samir. Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq, 1989.

• Mackey, Sandra. Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein, 2002.

• Makiya, Kananis. Republic of Fear: The Politics of Modern Iraq. Revised Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

• Marr, P., The Modern History of Iraq, 1985.

• McDowell, David. Modern History of the Kurds, 1996.

• Mylrorie, Laurie. Study of Revenge: The First World Trade Center Attack and Saddam Hussein's War Against America, 2001.

• NCCI and Oxfam GB, "IRAQ EMERGENCY SITUATION", Trends in violence, Humanitarian needs, Preparedness, May 2006, http://www.ncciraq.org/IMG/pdf/NCCI_-_Iraq_Emergency_Situation_-_Final_Report_-_2nd_May_2006.pdf

• NCCI, Iraq Humanitarian Crisis Situation and NGOs Responses, May 2007, http://www.ncciraq.org/spip.php?article1742

• Pollack, Kenneth M. Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq, 2002.

• Ritter, Scott. Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem - Once and For All, 1999.

• Roux, G., Ancient Iraq, 1965, reprinted 1976.

• Sasson, Jean P. Rape of Kuwait: The True Story of Iraqi Atrocities Against a Civilian Population, 1991.

• Simons, G. L. Iraq: From Sumer to Saddam, 1994.

• Spencer, William. Iraq: Old Land, New Nation in Conflict, 2000.

• Timmerman, Kenneth. Death Lobby: How the West Armed Iraq, 1991.

• Tripp, Charles. History of Modern Iraq, 2nd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

• Zaidi, Sarah, Benjamin, Elisabeth Ryden, Clements, Charles, McCally, Michael, Pellett, Peter, VanRooyen, Michael, Waldman, Ronald Jay, and Ghaemi, Hadi, The Human Costs of War in Iraq. Brooklyn, NY: Centre for Economic and Social Rights, 2003. - http://www.cesr.org/iraq/docs/humancosts.pdf.

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