The Transitional Justice Peace Agreements Database.
Peace Agreement Database
This Peace Agreement Database lists over 640 documents in over
85 jurisdictions which can be termed ‘peace agreements’. It
provides information on some of the key issues addressed by the agreements,
for example, ‘amnesty’ and ‘women’, and a search
mechanism for searching which agreements have dealt with these issues. The
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 Education, Northern Ireland.
The collection includes: proposed agreements not accepted by
all relevant parties (but setting a framework); agreements between
some but not all parties to conflicts; agreements essentially imposed
after a military victory; joint declarations largely rhetorical in
nature; agreed accounts of meetings between parties even where these
do not create substantive obligations. In cases where a series of partial
agreements were later incorporated into a single framework agreement,
all of the constituent agreements are listed separately. Where specific
pieces of legislation, constitutions, interim constitutions, constitutional
amendments, or UN Security Council resolutions were the outcomes of
peace negotiations, these are included in the database; however, where
these were viewed as far removed from the peace agreement they were
not included. Agreements with an asterix are agreements for which we
have not yet obtained the text, and where no data has therefore yet
been entered.
Further information about the Database content and sources, can
be accessed in the ‘about’ section of the above menu.
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