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Academics:

The American Library Association's International Responsibility Taskforce . All the best alternative resources on U.S. counter-terrorism warfare are assembled here.
ThirdSide.org "is sponsored by the Global Negotiation Project (formerly the Project on Preventing War) at Harvard University. The Project develops and encourages the use of effective negotiation processes to reduce the risk of war. In addition, the Project is also committed to the development of negotiation theory and practice in a wide range of related areas, such as international mediation and designing dispute resolution systems to contain violence and resolve conflict."
Lawrence Solum's legal theory weblog is updated with astonishing regularity with the latest in philosophical jurisprudence. The most useful of it's kind on the www.
Craig McKie's political science resources . A truly exhaustive compendium of what's out there in cyber-academia.
Jonathan Dolhenty's Radical Academy has been around for a long time, and it's one of the best internet hosts for philosophical resources.
Santa Clara University's Markkula Center for Applied Ethics is "one of the preeminent centers for research and dialogue on ethical issues in critical areas of American life."
The Leiter Report from Brian Leiter. An impressive, wide-ranging blog offering links and insightful commentary on philosophy, law, politics and much more.
EPhilosopher.com , "a web community dedicated to philosophical thinking."
Node.on.ca , a guide to distance education.
The Network on Ethics and Justice in the Community of Nations hosted by Roskilde University Department of Philosophy & Science Studies.
The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, the website for which presents "a selective, annotated guide to a wide variety of electronic resources of interest to those who are involved in the study and practice of religion."
Ophelia Benson and Jeremy Stangroom maintain ButterfliesAndWheels.com, a site established in order to oppose politically motivated pseudo science, epistemic relativism in the humanities, and value judgments that masquerade as truth-claims.
JWT.com is a member of the Website Listing Organization for Education - Alternative.
The Voice of the Shuttle, which is is designed "to provide a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources that at once respects the established humanities disciplines in their professional organization and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media."
The Philosophy Pages, maintained by Garth Kemerling, are especially useful as an aid to undergraduate research and instruction in philosophy.
The American Philosophical Association provides links to member homepages. Find your favorite (living) philosopher here.
Paul Martin Lester maintains Cal State Fullerton's ethics resources.
Pearson Custom Publishing maintains a very useful Link Library for ITT Technical Institute.
Michael Russo manages The Sophia Project, "a venture of the Molloy College Philosophy Department, the aim of which is to provide the newcomer to the field of philosophy with the assistance that he or she needs to read great philosophical works."
The Humanities & Social Sciences Net Online is a good place to keep up to date on things academic with announcements about upcoming conferences, new websites, books, and more.
I'm a member of The Association for Political Theory, which was founded in 2000 "to advance scholarly interaction, collaboration, and debate among political theorists; to support teaching, research, and publishing in political theory, political philosophy, and related forms of interdisciplinary studies; to organize annual conferences devoted to political thought; and to promote political theory in the academy."
"Founded in 1921, National Council for the Social Studies has grown to be the largest association in the country devoted solely to social studies education.
Peter King's Philosophy Around The Web page is a good, active guide to new philosophy resources in cyberspace.
Paul Pardi's Philosophy News Service, which includes a listserve, is a good way for philosophers to keep abreast of "the latest news, events, books, jobs, and resources."
Graham Finlay is Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin. His research interests include "the history of political thought, especially John Stuart Mill, consequentialist thought, citizenship education, the theory of human rights and various topics in international justice, including migration and development."
Joachim Koch's Philosophers-Today website is the place to go to find out who's who and what's going on in the German speaking world of philosophy. Many, many interesting and useful resources are available on his site.
Ted Honderich is a supportive user of JWT.com. His homepages are well worth visiting for the wealth of materials they contain in metaphysics, moral theory, and political theory, especially on the topics of free will and terrorism.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection lists links to peaceniks of all kinds.
The Centre De Recherche en Ethique de l'Universite de Montreal has some interesting French language links that American and UK academic sites typically ignore.
Zeitgeschichte-online is a portal into German language studies of contemporary conflicts.
The Applied Ethics Institute at St. Petersburg College has been advancing ethics through special programs for 20 years.
Jay's Leftist and 'Progressive' Internet Resources Directory is "A Web Portal for all Good People around Planet Earth who are anti-War, anti-Imperialist, anti-Racist, anti-Sexist, and anti-Homophobic and who want to Fight Back and build together a Better World."
H2CM, Hodges' Health Career - Care Domains - Model, presents "a health and social care model with universal potential. . . The model takes a situated and multi-contextual view across four knowledge domains: Interpersonal; Sociological; Empirical; & Political." JWT visitors will be particularly interested in the h2cm political resources page maintained by site manager, Peter Jones.
Crooked Timber is a great interdisciplinary social/political theory group blog featuring Chris Bertram, Micah Schwartzman, Eszter Hargittai, and others.
The European Consortium for Political Research includes a Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy, which "provides a platform and infrastructure to the broad range of scholars working on (various aspects) of 'extremism and democracy' in all parts of the world." JWT.com patrons will be particularly interested in the Extremism and Democracy newsletter and links.
University of California Irvine maintains a useful set of links to websites devoted to Social Issues.
James A. Stroble uses JWT.com for his course on Professional Ethics and the Military at Hawaii Pacific University.
Sally Brzozowski produced a very thoughtful just war theory website for her final project in Vinnie Ferraro�s World Politics course at Mount Holyoke College. Nice work.
I'm a member of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, which is "committed to encouraging high quality interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching in practical and professional ethics by educators and practitioners who appreciate the theoretical and practical impacts of their subjects."
The College of DuPage Library maintains a useful list of research guides in political science and political theory.
The Political Theory Daily Review is the best site on the internet for keeping up to date on what's being published online in the field. It also includes a fairly exhaustive list of political theory weblogs.
The Air University Library recommends JWT.com as part of its research seminar support for the institution's course on War, Peace and Politics.
Geoffrey Klempner hosts an impressive philosophy website called Philosophos, which includes Pathways School of Philosophy, a distant learning center associated with the International Society for Philosophers, and an eclectic collection of materials in Philosophy from A to Z.
The Rhodes University Library has a useful just war theory "Pathfinder".
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy recommends JWT.com as an aid to philosophical studies of war.
For everything you always wanted to know about Clausewitz but were afraid to ask, check out Clausewitz.com.
The latest welcome addition to the growing ranks of blogging political philosophers is the pseudonymous "Helmut" of Phronesisaical. If anything can be known about Helmut, it's that he's a "non-combatant" and has the JWT-shirt to prove it.
Catherine Lowe hosts the Forum for European Philosophy at the London School of Economics. "The Forum is an educational charity which organises and runs a full and varied programme of philosophy and inter disciplinary events in the UK."
The Danish Peace Academy is an "independent, non-profit" site devoted to "Danish peace education".
Duncan Richter uses JWT.com as an aid to instruction for his Ethics course at the Virginia Military Academy.
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies is "devoted to the scholarly study of film, television, video, and new media."
PhilWeb offers a very useful and up-to-date list of resources in social, political and legal philosophy. It is maintained by Richard L. W. Clarke at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados.
The Societa Italiana di Filosofia Politica has made available (in Italian) Thomas Casadei's "Ethical Practice and Cases of War," forthcoming in Political Theory.
Vaughn P. Shannon of the University of Northern Iowa's Center for International Peace and Security has compiled a useful list of recommended research sources on international norms.
Randy Jensen teaches "Contemporary Ethical Issues" and other philosophy classes at Northwestern College. His webpages include a lot of useful links to online resources in ethical theory.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson was also the Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremburg war crimes trials. As part of its educational mission, The Robert Jackson Center advocates "applying Jackson's views on international law as they relate to aggressive war, war crimes, and acts of terror in today's world."
The Macedonian Sociological Web Directory is a non-profit project aimed at advancing social science and solving social problems in Macedonia.
Massimo Rubboli has a "non-combatant" t-shirt. I wonder if he'll wear it to the next meeting of the Peace History Society? I hope so. Looks like a wonderfully dovish group of scholars.
Not only is Joe Birkenstock an expert in "Political Activity Law," an occasional dabbler in academia, and a proud owner of one XL JWT-shirt, but he's also the new champion of my fantasy football league and current holder of the coveted Tiki Trophy. Congratulations, Joe!
In addition to being a an avid skier, an enthusiastic foodie, and a declared "non-combatant," Jennifer Schaffner is also Head of Reader Services at UCLA's William Andrews Clark Memorial Library where I go to chase the ghosts of political violence past. Thanks for all the favors, Jen!
The Texas Tech University Honors College seeks to advance higher learning and reflection about just war theory. They've compiled some interesting materials, including links to papers on the justifiability of the war in Afganistan.
Democratiya is "a free bi-monthly online review of books" edited by Alan Johnson. It specializes in such topics as "war, peace, just war, and humanitarian interventionism; human rights, genocide, crimes against humanity and the responsibility to protect and rescue; the United Nations, international law and the doctrine of the international community; as well as democratisation, social and labour movements, 'global civil society', 'global social democracy', and Sennian development-as-freedom."
International Political Theory is a superior website "prepared under the supervision of a distinguished international editorial board" and chiefly managed by Tim Hayward, Lynn Dobson & Cecile Fabre at the University of Edinburgh. It includes, among other resources, an excellent online, open access, peer reviewed journal, the IPT Beacon, which not only publishes original research, but also makes available online certain selected articles from a variety of leading journals.
Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base aims "to make the study of philosophy easy and enjoyable by combining the best online resources with the most extensive text resources available."
Camillo C. Bica is a veteran of the war in Vietnam, a philosophy professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and founder of the "HOOTCH" self help program at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Brooklyn. His webpages contain many interesting public resources and personal reflections on warfare.
With "over 19,000 well-categorized links" EpistemeLinks is easily the best comprehensive webportal for philosophy resources on the internet. It is maintained by Thomas Ryan Stone who is an instructional designer for e-learning solutions.
Natalie Borisovets at the Rutgers University Library maintains a very useful page of resources about the "Just War Tradition in Today's World."
Elias Baumgarten teaches The Ethics of War and Peace at the nearby Dearborn campus of the University of Michigan.
Ethics Resources on the Web is an excellent collection of links designed to supplement Ethics in Practice, 2nd edition, Hugh LaFollette (ed.), Blackwell Publishers, 2002. Items of interest to JWT users may be found in the World Hunger & International Justice Section. Links selected by Hugh LaFollette, Andrew Altman, Joel Anderson, Robert Goodin, Larry Hinman, Thomas Pogge, and Jonathan Wolff.
"The mission of the Acton Institute is to promote a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles." To this end, "the Acton Institute organizes seminars aimed at educating religious leaders of all denominations, business executives, entrepreneurs, university professors, and academic researchers in economics principles, and in the connection that can exist between virtue and economic thinking." They also have a PowerBlog.
The Reflection Cafe is "a platform for thought and humanity" maintained by an anonymous Ph.D. candidate in political science.
"The Metanexus Institute advances research, education and outreach on the constructive engagement of science and religion."
Randy Walden is the creator/editor of The Rights Philosophy Forum, which is "dedicated to promoting the investigation and exploration of the philosophy behind human rights."
Andrew Fiala is a political philosopher at Fresno State, editor of Philosophy in the Contemporary World, and author of an excellent entry on "Pacifism" in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy as well as several books and many articles.
Michael Kocsis' Military Intervention News Log "gives a daily review of international media coverage of situations of civil war, political repression or secession that involve or could lead to military peace operations or peacekeeping troop deployments."
The Institute for Theology and Peace is "a research institution of the Catholic Church established by the Catholic Military Chaplaincy. The emphasis of research and documentation is on the political and social debate on questions of peace from a theological-ethical point of view."
"Clio-online is a central Internet gateway for historical scholarship in teaching and research. Sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the gateway enables efficient access to the diverse range of historical online ressources available to scholars and teachers within the field of history."
The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism examines "Iraq: Four Years Later." What have we learned? Is the Bush Doctrine a reasonable response to changes in global politics introduced by sub-state terrorism and WMD proliferation? Or is it an unjustifiable and illegal policy that is destabiling both global and domestic political order?
The Nationalism Project is "one of the most widely used nationalism studies resources on the Internet and provides users with a clearinghouse of scholarly nationalism information... The site was created in 1999 by Eric G.E. Zuelow, currently Assistant Professor of Modern European History at West Liberty State College. The Nationalism Project is loosely affiliated with the Association for Research on Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Americas (ARENA)."
The Corcord is an "editorially independent newspaper" of Bellarmine University.
Public Reason "is a new group blog for political philosophers and theorists. The purpose of the blog is to create an open forum for the academic political philosophy and theory community where members can discuss their common work." It is administered by Simon May of Virginia Tech.
Tobias Winright teaches Moral Theology/Christian Ethics at St. Louis University, and he is a regular contributor of various publications on war- and peace-related materials.
Igor Primoratz is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem: "In his current research he focuses in particular on the ethics of war, where he works within the just war tradition, and on terrorism, which he considers 'almost absolutely' wrong."
Oxford University Press maintains an excellent online resource center to complement Catriona McKinnon's textbook, Issues in Political Theory (OUP, 2008).
Georgetown Law Center on National Security and the Law is a terrific online resource for keeping abreast of recent and forthcoming research.
Thomas R. O'Connor, Criminal Justice/Homeland Security Program Manager at Austin Peay State University, has a nice just war theory page, which is part of his larger Megalinks in Criminal Justice.
JustWarTheory.com is included among the Top 50 Philosophy Blogs selected by the Web Design Schools Guide.
San Diego State University's International Studies Education Program is committed to the idea that "Fulfilling the civic mission of public education requires more than preparing students for the workplace � it demands developing citizens with the knowledge, analytic thinking skills and motivation to engage the core issues of our time." To this end, it provides a wide array of useful resources for educators and students, including this useful primer on just war theory.
At the University of Colorado, Boulder, David R. Mapel offers what appears from the syllabus to be a very well thought out course on Justice and War.
Ryan McCarl, an Education grad student at Michigan and high school history teacher in Detroit, has a blog in which he records "Ideas, commentary, and analysis toward peace and understanding."
Peter Mantello, a professor of New Media at Asia Pacific University, has an acclaimed photography exhibit about child soldiers, an ongoing interest in "the growing synergy between battlespace and gamespace," and a couple of JWT-shirts.
The Bibliography Branch of the Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center of Maxwell AFB, AL, maintains a useful set of links to related online resources, journals, books, etc.
Ethics and World Politics, Edited by Duncan Bell, Oxford University Press, 2010, is an excellent textbook that has a companion website full of useful resources on, for example, just war theory and alternative approaches to the ethics of war.
The Center for Military Ethics at King's College London offers an "open access, free, quality, research led online resource that can be used by anyone, anywhere, to foster ethical awareness and help promote effective ethical decision making in military environments." Check it out! (6/12/17)
The Stockholm Center for the Ethics of War and Peace hosts a noteworthy "Ethical War Blog" with contributions from an international array of scholars. (6/12/17)

Media...

The Project for the OLD American Century, "a grass-roots organization that strives to protect and strengthen democracy primarily by disseminating unreported and underreported news stories from a perspective untainted by political or corporate sponsorship."
CrossVoice Magazine is an online magazine for news, articles and discussions on politics, social issue, literature, personal experience and product review.
PoliticalResources.net is an Italian Radio Radicale site that provides "Listings of political sites available on the Internet sorted by country, with links to Parties, Organizations, Governments, Media and more from all around the world."
The Majority Report airs regularly on Air America Radio.
ThePeoplesVoice.org is an excellent source of news and viewpoints about environmental, political, and social justice issues.
Scott Horton is a lawyer and host of "The Weekend Interview Show with Scott Horton." He and his allies also have a blog.
ReligionLink.org is an online resource designed "to help print and broadcast journalists when they encounter religion in stories about government, politics, education, social services, science and other areas of public life."
The Concord is "an editorially independent newspaper of Bellarmine University."
Gulan Weekly Magazine is published in Erbil, capital of the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq.

NGO's, GO's & Activists

Follow this link to purchase a Question War Ribbon declaring an obvious but underappreciated truth: 'The best way to support our troops is to Question War itself.'
The Freedom Activist Network is designed "to help freedom activists network with other activists" and it works.
The Berlin Appeal: "Fight International Terrorism with Civilized Means and Methods".
The People's E-mail Network is a tool for democratic participation, a means of directly communicating to Congress, the FCC, etc.
ThePeaceAlliance.org is lobbying Congress to create a U.S. Department of Peace.
PeopleBuildingPeace.org "is a global campaign recognizing the vital role of civil society in preventing armed conflict. Launched by the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict at the first civil society conference on conflict prevention at the United Nations."
The Radical Middle is a newsletter, thinktank, webportal, node, and so much more. It is sponsored by generous pledgees and the non-profit Center for Visionary Law, Business, and Public Policy.
Operation Yellow Elephant aims "to recruit College Republicans and Young Republicans to serve as infantry."
David Rees is the creator of the 'Get Your War On' cartoons. He also has an unstoppable reading of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico Philosophicus.
Carl Conetta and Charles Knight are co-directors of the Project on Defense Alternatives. The PDA seeks to promote "cost-effective defense against aggression... progress in arms control and in the gradual demilitarization of international relations... and nonmilitary means of conflict prevention, containment, and resolution." I can't think of a better online source for the study of effective, rational and cooperative defense strategies. The PDA is supported by the Commonwealth Institute.
"The European Human Rights Centre (EHRC) represents over 100 non-governmental and other not-for-profit organisations interested in the promotion of Human Rights throughout Europe and beyond... The purpose of the Centre is to contribute to the general advancement of the human rights research by promoting cooperation in Europe between organisation and goverment officials, and by collaborating with similar associations throughout the world."
Justin Raimondo and others at AntiWar.com don't like war at all.
Institut fur Religion und Frieden beim Militarbischofsamt (Institute for Religion and Peace at the Military Bishop's Office) in Vienna, Austria hosts national conferences on ethics and the military. Its website also hosts certain select internet resources in Militarseelsorge, Christliche Friedenslehre, Militarische Ethik, & Grundlegende Dokumente zum Humanitares Volkerrecht.
The Peace Alliance Foundation fosters and participates in "the growing international movement for a culture of peace." And on the local level, PAF works "to empower and promote civic activism through peace education and training, and promoting and sponsoring events and programs that foster and demonstrate taking action for a culture of peace."
The National Center for Policy Analysis is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization. It's aim is "to develop and promote private alternatives to government regulation and control, solving problems by relying on the strength of the competitive, entrepreneurial private sector." One of their projects is Debate Central, which is designed "to expose debaters to multiple perspectives on each topic and equip them with a deeper, well-rounded understanding of major public policy issues."

Other Allies...

JWT.com is a member of the Peace Merchants Association which was created by "a hungry college arts major" as "a collection of Merchants whose sales benefit and support various charities and channels in which Peace is the main goal." Click the logo to check out the goods!!!
BioTerrorismInformation.com provides many interesting links to resources about, you guessed it, bioterrorism.
Wikipedia, the free content encyclopedia.
ArticleHead.com is another free content internet resource for all kinds of research.
Want to help support our troops? Donate books to U.S. soldiers.
Tom Turnbull is my attorney advisor, internet guru, fellow hodad, and pal. He is a true gentleman and an honest lawyer. His website, Estate Planning Legal Resources, is an online resource providing information and legal services aimed at simplifying the estate planning process. Here is what Tom looks like in his JWT-shirt...
The Bewildered Herd is book that will make you think more about what you see in the media about war, conflicts, and fighting.
QTEducation.com will try to help you find the right school and "complete your education on your terms".
Public Program Testing Organization reports on waste, fraud, abuse, and inequities in Social Security and other government programs.
TibetanLama.com hosts links related to Tibetan Buddhism.
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MovieCheckpoint.com, an internet directory for movies.
Hucci.co.uk has ringtones, hypnotherapy, etc.
Search-Engines.org.uk can connect you to just about everything on the internet.
Paul Johnson hosts links to all kinds of political t-shirts at TshirtsHQ.com.
Metafilter is a community weblog featuring, well, just about anything.
The MadPercolator would rather blog than study for her bar exam. And who can blame her?
FireEducation.com is a web portal for all kinds of online educational resources.
FulLaw.com is a web portal for all kinds of online legal resources.
AboutPolitics.com selects the political site of the day.
Iridis Encyclopedia, Encyclozine, and Definition-Info are free online resources.
Search.com is an open-directory project.

Locals Only...

Rachel Holland Photography, the best in Motown, baby!
TheDetroiter.com, maintained by Nick Sousanis and friends, is your portal to the Motorcity arts scene.
Pr1mary Space Gallery is [or rather, used to be] where it's at for objets d'art in the D.
Joe Miller is a cool cat, jack of many trades, set designer, grip, electrician, special effects guy, photographer, web designer, mac savior, etc.
Whiskey in the Jar offers booze, booze, and more booze for the ghetto intelligentsia.
Ditto at The Belmont and at Small's, but with the added bonus of great live music.
Stevo's indie music blog knows more about the Detroit music scene than you do. Spelling be damned.
Mike Smith sells techno music and cool t-shirts, including JWT-shirts at Detroit Threads.
Folks at the Michigan Coalition for Human Rights "stand in active opposition to forces that suppress human dignity, freedom and justice. From a position of solidarity with those who suffer oppression and injustice locally and globally, MCHR will promote awareness and commitment to human rights through education, community organization, and action."
Oakland University alum Bruce Fealk is the host of Michigan Progress, "a new community television show that will focus on Oakland County politics and issues."

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