ARK provides access to a broad range of information on the Northern Ireland conflict and politics in the region, including detailed results of elections. Through its resources ARK aims to facilitate researchers and others in understanding the underlying causes of conflict and to facilitate conflict transformation and peace-building locally and internationally.

• Elections
  The Northern Ireland Elections section includes information about elections in Northern Ireland since 1885 and detailed breakdowns of election results.

• Conflict and Politics
  One of the most extensive sections of ARK the Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN) is an encyclopaedic resource on ‘the Troubles’ in Northern Ireland.
  

• Remembering: Victims, Survivors and Commemoration
  This CAIN specialist section ‘was launched in June 2009 and It contains an extensive on-line digital Archive of source materials and information on the topics of victims, survivors and commemoration in Northern Ireland.

• The Qualitative Archive on the Conflict holds information on qualitative material covering the 35 year span of 'the Troubles' in NI (content, availability, recording format etc.) and presents it in a searchable catalogue.