PA-X Peace Agreement Dataset: Formal Agreements from 1990 to 2025

Version 10 of the PA-X Peace Agreement Database covers all written, formal peace agreements from January 1990 to December 2025. The dataset is maintained by the Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform (PeaceRep) at the University of Edinburgh. Authors include Christine Bell, Sanja Badanjak, and others, with the codebook last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in peace agreement provisions based on the described formal, written documents.
• Train NLP models to classify or summarize peace agreement text.
• Conduct comparative case studies of conflict resolution processes across different regions and time periods.
• Track the implementation and evolution of specific agreement types over the 35-year coverage period.

Strengths

• Covers a 35-year time range from 1990 to 2025.
• Includes all written, formal peace agreements within that period, suggesting a complete census.
• Maintained by a recognized academic research platform (PeaceRep, University of Edinburgh).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform (PeaceRep), University of Edinburgh.

Collection Method

Likely compiled through systematic collection and coding of formal, written peace agreements.

Time Range

January 1990 to December 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-20 11:24:44.