Balkan Region

Basic information on the Balkans

• Background Notes: Europe and the New Independent States (a directory of country profiles from the US Department of State)
• The World Factbook, a CIA database of country profiles
• The Library of Congress country studies

Internet searching tools (search engines, directories, etc.)

• BalkanPeace Hyperlinks (an extensive web directory; text parallel in English and French)

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Area study centers (teaching and research)

• Balkans Study and Programs at Columbia University (The Harriman Institute program description and links)
• Institute for Balkan Studies (Thessaloniki, Greece)
• Institute for Balkan Studies (Sophia, Bulgaria)

Associations (professional, non-governmental, international, local)

• The Balkan Peace Team (a joint project of 11 international grassroots peace organizations, for the peaceful resolution of conflict by involving international volunteers in work with local peace and human rights groups; the site contains BPT information and texts of BPT reports)
• World Conference on Religion and peace (WCRP) (a non-profit organization promoting cooperation among the world's religions for peace; under "Programs and projects", click on "Bosnia" and "Kosovo")
• Slavonic Web (a web site of the Slavonic Cultural Center of San Francisco, home of the Slavonic Mutual and Benevolent Society, celebrating cultural heritage of the South Slavic people)
• The Centre for Peace in the Balkans (the organization for balanced and accurate presentation of the current socio-political situation on the Balkan Peninsula; the site contains news, documents, photos, audio/video archive, etc.)

Communications (incl. computer and Internet issues)

• Internet Access Providers Meta-List (a world-wide directory)

Culture, fine arts, entertainment

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Current events and media

• Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty: Balkan Report (news in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Albanian and English, political overview of the region)
• Balkan News Page (from Eurasia Research Center, a collection of news resources)
• Balkan Information Exchange (a web site sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense in order to provide an international audience with a portal to a broad range of information on the Balkan region; in English, Russian, Albanian, Greek, and Serbian)
• Institute for War and Peace Reporting : Tribunal Update (weekly reports detail events and issues at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague)
• The Centre for Peace in the Balkans (the organization for balanced and accurate presentation of the current socio-political situation on the Balkan Peninsula; the site contains news, documents, photos, audio/video archive, etc.)

Economics (incl. business and finances)

• Association of Balkan Chambers (ABC Network System) (the site contains country profiles, market reports, etc.)

Education

Geography and travel (incl. cities, maps, transportation, etc.)

• Balkan Region - Central from the UT Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection: Historical maps, political maps, reference maps and more are available, online, from the PCL map collection. start here.

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Government (incl. international relations, military affairs, US legislation and policies)

• Governments on the WWW (comprehensive database of governmental institutions)

Grants

• International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) (provides grant opportunities for US scholars to conduct field research in CEE and the NIS)
• The American Councils for International Education (ACTR, ACCELS) (a not for profit education, training, and consulting organization, specializing in the countries of Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia. The programs include academic exchange, professional training, institution building, research, materials development, technical assistance, and consulting)
• Open Society -- Soros Foundation

Health and fitness (incl. medicine, sports, etc.)

• European Centre for the Epidemiological Monitoring of AIDS
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
• World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe (EURO)

History (incl. genealogy, etc.)

• Twenty-five Lectures on Modern Balkan History (The Balkans in the Age of Nationalism) (full-text lectures by Steven W. Sowards, Michigan State University)
• Historical Maps of The Balkans (from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, the University of Texas at Austin)

Language (incl. dictionaries and teaching)

• Teaching South Slavic Languages: A Survey of Textbooks and Reference Works (an electronic version of an essay by Margaret H. Beissinger; from The Learning and Teaching of Slavic Languages. Edited by Olga Kagan and Benjamin Rifkin. Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2000, pp. 609--26)

Law

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Libraries and archives

• Libweb: Directory of Libraries in Southeast Europe and the Balkans

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Literature (incl. books online, publishers and vendors)

• Literature Resource Center, from Gale group (a searchable online encyclopedia of world literature)
• Slavic Review  (the membership journal of the American  Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies; besides scholarly articles contains numerous reviews of new books on Slavic studies; has an online index)
• Slavica Publishers (one of the leading U. S. publishers of scholarly books and textbooks on the languages, peoples, literatures, cultures and history of the former USSR and Eastern Europe)

People (biography, personal pages)

• Biographical Dictionary (over 27,000 entries, some very brief)

Politics (incl. international relations, military affairs and US policies)

• Institute for War and Peace Reporting : Tribunal Update (weekly reports detail events and issues at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague)
• BalkansNet (Formerly "PeaceNet"; Balkans anti-war and human rights resources)
• Balkans: In-Depth (a site by the United States Institute of Peace; contains publications, resources for funding and conducting research, etc.)

Religions

• Academic Info: Religion Gateway (a directory of internet resources for the academic study of religion)

Science and technology (incl. environmental issues)

• UNEP-Balkans (a special unit of the United Nations Environment Programme to investigate the regional environmental consequences of the 1999 conflict in Kosovo)

Social science (incl. human rights, women issues, etc.)

• BalkansNet (Formerly "PeaceNet"; Balkans anti-war and human rights resources)

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