Ideally, you will be looking at a particular object of study (in this case, a particular conflict) and asking questions about the scholarship already done on that object. You might be disagreeing with the scholarship or you might be furthering an idea already in play. Below are databases where you can find scholarly articles that might be able to use to analyze your object of study.
Below is a list of subject databases that might include scholarship on topics regarding conflict resolution. For a complete list of databases, click here.
Identify simple one or two-word concepts in your topic:
Search the keywords from your topic along with the keywords and names from the theory you are using:
environmental issues AND human needs OR maslow
Israel Palestine Conflict AND function of conflict OR coser
Try lots of different combinations of your search terms!
gun control AND structural violence OR gultang
second amendment AND structural violence OR gultang