Search PA-X

Explore V7 of our PA-X peace agreement database from 1990 to January 2023, searchable by category.

Search Gender PA-X

Explore our updated PA-X sub-database of gender provisions in peace agreements.

Search PA-X Local

Explore our PA-X sub-database of geocoded local peace agreements from the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Asia. Now updated to include agreements up to January 2023. 

Amnesties, Conflict and Peace Agreement (ACPA) database

Explore the fully searchable ACPA database, with information on amnesty processes from 1990 to 2016.

Ceasefires in a Time of Covid-19

Explore ceasefires declared during Covid-19 alongside live data on infection rates in country.

PeaceFem App Version 2 now available

Download the latest update of the mobile phone app that illustrates women’s inclusion in peace processes around the world, available from Google Play and App Store for iPhone.

News

  • New PA-X release, Version 7, covering agreements up to January 2023!

  • Ceasefires in a Time of Covid-19 was featured in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

  • Read the PA-X story: Data for Peace.

  • PA-X research cited in the UN Security Council open debate on Women, Peace and Security.

  • New PA-X Gender Spotlight Series

  • Read our latest PA-X reports

  • Missed the PA-X Edinburgh launch? You can now watch 'The Inclusion Project: Human Rights Dilemmas in the Negotiation of Peace Agreements' here.

  • Praise for PA-X. See here for some notable endorsements.

Visualizing peace : Messy timeline

What would the perfect peace process look like, and what do real peace processes look like?  Our data captures peace processes as much as 'agreements'.  Explore how peace processes unfold - messily.  

Visualizing peace : Hierarchy

See all our data in one 'space'. Not as complex as it looks - stay and play around with peace process patterns to get a quick visual sense of the scale of ALL our data - and how issues come to the fore at different stages of a peaces prcoess 

Interactive Infographics

Explore our interactive infographics illustrating our data from 30 years of peace processes around the world.

Research

Explore PA-X publications.

New visualisation: overview of issues and agreement types in PA-X

Designed by Dr Jaume Nualart, this visualisation shows an overview of peace agreement types and their substantive content. By choosing different elements and issues, users can quickly understand the content of the PA-X peace agreements. 

New visualisation: alluvial graph of issues the PA-X agreements are coded for

This interactive visualisation, designed by Dr Jaume Nualart, provides an overview of issues that are part of the PA-X search tools. As a visual representation of the PA-X codebook, it shows how issues are organized, and the types of issues that the PA-X team has found addressed in the data.

What's new in PA-X Version 7?

  • 44 new agreements coded, for a total of 2003
  • includes agreements up to January 2023
Yemen Timeline

Explore the trajectory of the conflict in Yemen through connected national and local peace initiatives from 1990 onwards, in Arabic /عربى or in English. Follow links to peace agreement documents in PA-X. Descriptions of events and agreements have been drafted in collaboration with Yemeni researchers and professionals.

PA-X as seen in student dataviz projects

What can we learn from PA-X data? See how the students at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya used PA-X in their data visualisation assignments.

Visualizing peace : Time and space

Explore peace agreements and the issues they address using an interactive map and timeline.  

PA-X Timeline Feature

Our research results can now all be exported into this cool timeline format.  This timeline has ALL our agreements chronologically, but you can export any search to a similar timeline format.

New student perspective on PA-X

In continuation of our collaboration with Dr Jaume Nualart, we are happy to present a second round of students’ work on visualising the PA-X data. These projects were created by students in the Data Science Master’s programme at the Open University of Catalonia, during the 2019-20-S2 semester. Each project represents the student's unique view of the PA-X data, and we are happy to invite you to explore their vision. 

Visualizing peace : Compare sequences

Explore and compare how different processes unfold over time.  Links to main documents and data.

This is now V7 of PA-X (previous releases can still be searched). PA-X is being continuously amended and updated to account for ongoing peace processes and new agreements. We are also continuing to update PA-X Gender and PA-X Local. 

 

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