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As such, you are to devise a policy in accordance with the positions of the United States Federal Government.  

To be clear: this does not mean the Trump Administration, per se.  It means policy recommendations in accordance with best practices in each field.

***For this academic exercise, you are an employee of the United States Government.  As such, you do not have total freedom of speech as a policy advisor.  This is an important thing to keep in mind*** 

If your policy recommendations cannot be verified with FACTS, it cannot go forwards. 

To assist you, I provide below a list of peer-reviewed and otherwise credible databases for research.  You CANNOT use the open web for your research EXCEPT for sites tied to respected policy institutes, think tanks, non-governmental organizations, the UN itself, and university research centers.  

While .org and .edu do not automatically give credibility to information, they are more likely to be accurate than .com sites (and other similar top-level domains).  

So,  no .com sites of any kind can be used .  Lobbyist groups' data can be used but you must identify clearly the position of the groups - what is their goal in spending money to get Congress to support a specific bill?  The same idea can be extended to the international realm.  Here, the issue relates to lobbying the United Nations for policy reform.  Remember that not all reforms equal "progress."  Some "reforms" are actually retrogressive.  These reforms are not what we want.  

We want to come up with concrete solutions to the problems caused by the interconnectedness of nation-states that do not always get along.   

SOURCES : 

Some organizations' websites that can be used (for illustration purposes - JUST EXAMPLES!):

***Columbia International Affairs Online - examples of policy papers and think tank strategizing***

World Bank

International Monetary Fund

Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development - Datimf

The United Nation (and its many sub-orgs and committees) 

The International Committee of the Red Cross/Red Crescent 

CIA World Factbook 

World Health Organization, Statistical Information System 

Databases Suggested for Use (linked to Logue Library databases - you need to log in with your CHC credentials - any database in the A-Z Dabatase List can be used, these are just the most relevant):  

Academic Search Complete

ACLS Humanities eBooks

ACM Digital Library (for tech-specific topics)

Administration on Aging - Data & Statistics (example for using quantitative tools from a government organization)

Amnesty International Annual Reports ( an example of an NGO that frequently clashes with the US - great for counterexamples and more extreme policy recommendations - FINDING A SIMILAR ORG FOR YOUR POLICY IS A GREAT IDEA!)

Bureau of Justice Statistics 

Business Searching Interface (includes country reports, which might be useful)

Business Source Premier 

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 

Core Documents of US Democracy

CQ Researcher (we have used these in class - Congressional Quarterly newsletter of sorts) 

Criminal Justice Archives 

EBSCOhost eBooks - Computer Crime (this is just one of many examples in this area from EBSCOhost)

Environmental Policy Documents at the LOC

ERIC (education)

GreenFile (environmental issues)

Hathi Trust Digital Library

JSTOR --> THIS IS YOUR BEST BET IF HAVING TROUBLE ELSEWHERE

LexisNexis

Library of Congress Resources 

Pew Research Center for People & the Press

ProCon (offers "pros" and "cons" for various issues - your topic might be listed, not terrific, but might get you thinking...)

Project Muse

SpringerLink 

Statista (stats on many subjects)

Supreme Court Database

Trends Online (decent, not wonderful, collection of data on "global change")

U.S. Computer Use & Ownership Stats (via US Census Bureau)

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission 

Women's Human Rights Resources Database

Yale University Genocide Studies