What is PA-X Tracker?

The PA-X Tracker is a suite of tools that enable tracking peace and transition processes through data from the PA-X Peace Agreement Database and Dataset, and external data from a wide range of sources. The purpose of the tracker is to allow users to understand how these processes are unfolding, and what impact peace processes have had on a range of institutional, political, economic, and security indicators. In the tracker, users can compare data in different contexts by selecting 'All' and viewing data for all countries or can select a country of interest to view country-specific data on a timeline, through interactive dashboards, interactive network graphs and other data driven applications.

Some key definitions from PA-X include:

  • Peace Agreement: formal, publicly-available documents, produced after discussion with conflict protagonists and mutually agreed to by some or all of them, addressing conflict with a view to ending it
  • Conflict’s protagonists: state actors and non-state actors who are involved in violent conflict, or their associated political representatives
  • Conflict: armed violence, causing more than 25 conflict-related deaths in one year
  • Peace or Transition Process: a formal attempt to bring political and/or military protagonists of conflict, to some sort of mutual agreement as to how to end the conflict

We invite feedback, comments, suggestions, and ideas that would help us improve this tracker.

View the PA-X Tracker Methodology for more information on the tracker and all secondary data used in the tracker.

For guidance on how to use the PA-X Tracker, see step-by-step guides linked below each Tracker component/dashboard. Alternatively, view the videos on our YouTube Playlist - 'How to use PA-X Tracker', or access a full PDF of all the User Guides.

What is the PA-X Tracker Globe?

The PA-X Tracker Globe (https://globe-tracker.onrender.com/) serves as an interactive visualization tool that synthesizes peace agreement and conflict data in a geospatial, mobile-friendly format. This research instrument integrates peace agreement signings from the PA-X Peace Agreements Database with conflict-related fatality data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) Candidate Dataset, providing researchers and practitioners with a dual-layered visual representation of global conflict and peace agreement trends. Agreement locations are denoted by icons (with purple specifically indicating local agreements), while conflict intensity is represented through a red colour scale and the 3D extrusion of country polygons. Users can access detailed country-specific metrics through an interactive side panel featuring event counts, fatality statistics, agreement and peace process overviews, and direct links to relevant PA-X Tracker profiles and data. While conflict data is refreshed monthly to ensure up to date information, the peace agreement data corresponds to the annual PA-X release cycle (currently Version 9, April 2025, so Globe shows agreements signed in 2024).

For more on the external data used on the tool, see the Globe 'About' section or the section on this page (External Data Sources).

The PA-X Tracker Globe was designed, developed and conceptualised by Tomas Vancisin, Niamh Henry and Christine Bell (University of Edinburgh).

How do I cite PA-X Tracker?

Cite PA-X Tracker:

Please cite/attribute any re-use of the Tracker visualizations or tools with the following:

PA-X Tracker: the Peace and Transition Process Tracker, PeaceRep, Accessible from: https://www.peaceagreements.org/tracker/

Cite PA-X Version 9:

  • Bell, Christine, Sanja Badanjak, John Allison, Shivangi Bansal, Juline Beaujouan, Jacob Dobson, Robert Forster, Tim Epple, Adam Farquhar, Roy Gardner, Niamh Henry, Jennifer Hodge, Moosa Izzat, Astrid Jamar, Kelsey Kestenbaum, Kevin McNicholl, Sean Molloy, Tom Morley, Kathryn Nash, Saketh Srinivas Pittala, Jan Pospisil, Robert Wilson, Laura Wise, Surya Kiran Yadav. (2025). PA-X Peace Agreement Database (Version 9). Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform (PeaceRep), University of Edinburgh. Retrieved from https://www.peaceagreements.org/.
  • Bell, C., & Badanjak, S. (2019). Introducing PA-X: A new peace agreement database and dataset. Journal of Peace Research, 56(3), 452-466. Available at https://www.peaceagreements.org/

For further citation information click here.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Q: What countries, conflicts and processes are covered in the tracker?

Any formal, publicly signed and written agreements, and peace and transition processes that are recorded in PA-X Peace Agreements database are included in the PA-X Tracker (2144 agreements across 170 peace and transition processes since 1990 are recorded in v9 of PA-X). Therefore, there are some limitations to what is recorded in both PA-X and PA-X Tracker that may be important in the processes, such as verbal agreements or documents that are not publicly available. Additionally, there are some conflicts that do not reach the threshold for inclusion.

Q: I want to track a country that has had a peace agreement but it does not have its own profile – can I do this?

Country profiles are curated collections of interactive data tools relevant to the country. These are available for the following countries, which are relevant case studies of where we work in PeaceRep: Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Iraq, Libya, Myanmar, Northern Ireland, Philippines, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen. This is a living and growing platform, and new country profiles will be iteratively added over time.

If you are interested in a country/conflict/process that has not been listed, and does not have its own ‘country profile’ yet, but they are included in PA-X, you can use the ‘All’ tile to explore and compare Process Overviews of any Country/entity that is in PA-X, using the dropdown on the top left of the dashboard. Additionally, you can view and compare Implementation Data across indicators of security, politics and the economy for any country that is in PA-X and is on Gleditsch and Ward’s List of Independent States.

Please note that some states may not have data availability across all data sources, and some of the charts may show as blank for some countries. If that country has its own curated profile, access the implementation data via their country portal rather than ‘All’ as it will contain relevant replacement data.

Q: Where is the data from?

On the PA-X Tracker, we aim to contextualise the data collected across the PeaceRep consortium amongst a range of widely used data sources in the peace and conflict resolution field.

Data we collect at PeaceRep includes the PA-X Peace Agreements Database (including PA-X Local, PA-X Gender and the APCA [Amnesties, Conflict and Peace Agreement (ACPA) dataset]), in addition to local data collections in South Sudan regarding Perceptions of Peace, and Perceptions of Legitimacy and Authority in Syria.

Other external data we have used are listed below in the section ‘External Data Sources and Providers’.

On any component of the tracker where there is an information button ⓘ, hover the button to see the data citation, or click the button to navigate to the original data source website.

Q: How can I use the PA-X Tracker?

User guides which provide some tips on how to use the tracker, are provided under each tracker component. They are available as PDF step-by-step guides, or videos that illustrate a walkthrough of each component. View the videos on our YouTube Playlist - 'How to use PA-X Tracker', or access the PDFs here:

Q: How often is the data updated?

Where possible, the data on the tracker updates on a monthly basis including updates from ACLED, UCDP GED Candidate, ACAPS INFORM Severity Index and Crisis Figures from ReliefWeb. Other data providers release data on an annual or ad-hoc basis, therefore the data is updated as and when a new version is released.

PA-X data is updated on an annual basis. The current version (8), published Spring-2024, records 2,055 agreements from 1990 until end-2023.

Q: Why do some processes/countries have more options to view than others?

Due to lack of data availability for some countries, in addition to data collections and case studies across the PeaceRep consortium, we have different amounts of data available depending on the context. This is a living and growing platform that is a work in progress, and more components will be added for relevant countries when they are developed. Additionally, some of our tools are experimental/proof of concept and we have not yet extended them to new countries but wanted to make them publicly available for exploration.

Q: I expected to see relevant events to the conflict on the timelines, but they are not included, why?

On the timelines of institutional change, we include the following event types from the relevant data providers – if an event has not been recorded in these datasets, they are therefore not included on the timelines. If you have any suggestions for data that provides relevant events that would be valuable on the timelines, or specific events relevant to the formal change process in a country, please reach out to: peacerep@ed.ac.uk.

External Data Sources and Providers

Data used in the Tracker are provided by the following organisations and individuals. We list these sources and providers to the best of our ability to identify original data owners.

Where data from these providers are used in data visualisations, an ‘ⓘ’/’information’ button provides the correct attribution/citation in line with their terms of use, with these buttons providing navigation to the relevant source's websites, or their full citations are on the website under the relevant content.

All reuse of Tracker components must attribute the visualisation to the Tracker owners and to the original data owners. All external sources have been used in accordance with Terms of Use and where necessary these have been checked with data users. However, if you are one of the data providers and have any concerns regarding this, please raise it through our 'Notice and Takedown policy' on PA-X Website.

External data providers:

Additional Resources

See the PA-X Tracker Methodology.

Acknowledgements

The Peace Agreements Database (PA-X) and the PA-X Tracker: the Peace & Transition Process Tracker is an output of PeaceRep: The Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform, funded by UK International Development from the UK government. However, the views expressed and information contained in it are not necessarily those endorsed by the UK government’s official policies.

This platform was developed in a collaboration with IS Applications Development Services in the University of Edinburgh, with special thanks to Callum Fenna-Roberts, Jacob Dobson, Diana Smoliar and John Allison for development of the platform.

This data infrastructure supporting this platform was developed in collaboration with the EPCC (Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre), with special thanks extended to Jonny Hay, Malcolm Illingworth and Charaka Palansuriya.

The contents of this platform were conceptualised, designed and developed by the University of Edinburgh PeaceRep team, with special thanks to Christine Bell, Sanja Badanjak, Jinrui Wang, Roy Gardner, Sarah Schöttler, Benjamin Bach, Tomas Vancisin and Niamh Henry for their contributions.

The country-outline images used in the tracker interface are royalty-free, sourced from pixabay, with credits going to user GDJ.

Unless explicitly stated otherwise, all material is copyright © The University of Edinburgh.