The Peace Agreement Amnesties Dataset documents provisions for amnesty or pardon within formal peace agreements. It contains data on 117 peace agreements providing amnesty in relation to internal armed conflicts from 1990 to 2024 across 47 countries. The dataset was created by Louise Mallinder of PeaceRep Data, derived from the PA-X Peace Agreement database.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in amnesty provisions over time based on the 1990-2024 temporal coverage
- Study the geographic distribution of amnesty agreements based on the coverage of 47 countries
- Compare amnesty provisions across different peace processes based on the curated sample of 117 agreements
Strengths
- Derived from the PA-X database, which contains data on 2055 peace agreements from over 150 peace processes
- Documents 117 peace agreements with amnesty provisions, providing a focused sample
- Covers a 34-year time range from 1990 to 2024
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the source database
Provenance
- Source
- PeaceRep Data (PA-X Peace Agreement database)
- Collection Method
- Recoded from the PA-X database using an Excel spreadsheet, applying specific exclusion criteria for localized agreements, domestic rules, unilateral texts, and restated commitments.
- Time Range
- 1990 to 2024
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-20 11:24:10
- Geography
- 47 countries