Conflict Archive on the Internet

Conflict Archive on the Internet
CAIN
Conflict Archive on the Internet
URL cain.ulst.ac.uk
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Type of site Archive
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CAIN (Conflict Archive on the Internet) is a database containing information about Conflict and Politics in Northern Ireland from 1968 to the Present. The project began in 1996, with the website launching in 1997. The project is based within the University of Ulster at its Magee campus. The archive chronicles important events during The Troubles, stretching from 1968 until the present day.

CAIN is affiliated with the Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive (ARK), which consists of a number of websites devoted to providing informational material related to Northern Ireland's political process and history.

The institutions of higher learning that created CAIN, in addition to the University of Ulster, were the Queen's University, which worked in concert with the Linen Hall Library. Other important contributors to this project's inception and development were the Center for the Study of Conflict, Educational Services, and INCORE, which stands for the Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity.

The site includes the Sutton Index of Deaths, containing information on every death which occurred as a result of the conflict. The information is taken from Malcolm Sutton's book Bear in mind these dead, the title of which is taken from a poem by John Hewitt. Sutton's original book listed deaths from 1969 until 1993, since updated until 2001. The information can be viewed chronologically, alphabetically and a full search functionality is included. Information can also be crosstabulated by the status of the victim, the organisation responsible and several other variables. Dr Martin Melaugh, the director of the project, has produced draft lists of further deaths related to the conflict from 2002 to date.

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Funding

In addition to the University of Ulster, CAIN is also bankrolled to a large extent by the Atlantic Philanthropies. In 1998 CAIN was directly funded through the Department of Education for Northern Ireland and the Central Community Relations Unit. Its first donor, however, was the Electronic Libraries Programme of the Higher Education Funding Councils.

Users

According to its official website CAIN is specifically targeting the higher education sector in the United Kingdom, although it claims that over two-thirds of its users come from outside of the UK, dividing them into three categories:

  • one third from Britain and Ireland;
  • one third from the United States of America;
  • and one third from the rest of the world.

History

Although originally conceived as a website focusing exclusively on inter and intrasectarian conflict within Northern Ireland-with particular emphasis on the violent aspects of these disputes-CAIN eventually expanded to encompass a much broader overview of politics and culture within Northern Ireland, including key historical events that preceded the current iteration of the conflict over Northern Ireland's political status.

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