Peace Agreement Database

The Peace Agreement Database provides details of over 640 peace agreements signed since 1990, addressing conflicts that affect over 85 jurisdictions. The Database lists peace agreements by conflict, and gives details of the date signed, parties and third parties to each agreement. Further, the Database provides details of the substance of the each agreement, by setting out the location in the text and a short synopsis of each agreement's provisions in the following categories: dealing with the past (amnesty, past mechanism, prisoner release, victims), undoing the legacy of the past (refugees, land), state institutional reform (criminal justice, policing, judicial reform, new rights institutions), enforcing the agreement (enforcement mechanism, international community, UN involvement), and agreement provisions addressing a range of other issues, such as women, civil society, and socio-economic/development. The Database also indicates where the full text of each peace agreement can be found.

The Peace Agreement Database was conceived and researched by Professor Christine Bell (TJI), Catherine O’Rourke (TJI), software and search engine developed and hosted by the INCORE web service.  The research for the database was funded by the Nuffield Foundation, and supported by the Transitional Justice Institute Support Programme for University Research funding, provided by Atlantic Philanthropies, and the Department of Employment and Learning,  Northern Ireland. 

Data derived from the database has already formed the basis of substantial qualitative and quantitative scholarly analysis. A complete list of the peace agreements included in the database, categorized as intrastate agreements, interstate agreements, or interstate agreements addressing intrastate conflict, was published in 2008.

The database is a continuing work in progress.

Bibliography

• Christine Bell, On the Law of Peace: Peace Agreements and the Lex Pacificatoria. Oxford & NY: Oxford University Press, 2008 (Appendices by Christine Bell & Catherine O'Rourke include the full list of peace agreements included in the database).
  
• Christine Bell, "Peace Agreements: Their Nature and Legal Status." 100 American Journal of International Law 373 (2006). 
  
• Christine Bell & Catherine O'Rourke, "The People's Peace: Peace Agreements, Civil Society and Participatory Democracy." 28 International Political Science Review 293 (2007) (in 2008, the fourth most online-accessed article published in this journal).
  
• Christine Bell, Peace Agreements and Human Rights. Oxford & NY: Oxford University Press, 2000.
  
• Catherine O'Rourke, "Peace Agreements or Pieces of Paper? The Impact of UNSC Resolution 1325 on Women and Peacebuilding" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA, Mar 26, 2008, <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p251919_index.html>.