Armed conflict and post-conflict justice, 1946-2006

A dataset

Bibliographic Data

ID3916574
AuthorsHelga Malmin Binningsbø (0000-0002-3976-2067, Peace Research Institute Oslo), Cyanne E Loyle (0000-0003-4871-7433, West Virginia University), Scott Gate (0000-0002-9890-5590, Centre for the Study of Civil War, PRIO & Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Scott Gates (Centre for the Study of Civil War, PRIO & Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Jon Elster (0000-0002-9543-1780, Columbia University, Collège de France & Centre for the Study of Civil War, PRIO)
Year2012
Volume49
Issue5
Pages731-740
Publication date2012-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Peace Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-3433 • E-ISSN: 1460-3578
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0022343312450886
OpenAlexW2128014874
LanguageEN
Citations received60
References cited22

This article introduces a new dataset on post-conflict justice (PCJ) that provides an overview of if, where, and how post-conflict countries address the wrongdoings committed in association with previous armed conflict. Motivated by the literature on post-conflict peacebuilding, we study justice processes during post-conflict transitions. We examine: which countries choose to implement PCJ; where PCJ is implemented; and which measures are taken in post-conflict societies to address past abuse. Featuring justice and accountability processes, our dataset focuses solely on possible options to address wrongdoings that are implemented following and relating to a given armed conflict. These data allow scholars to address hypotheses regarding justice following war and the effect that these institutions have on transitions to peace. This new dataset includes all extrasystemic, internationalized internal, and internal armed conflicts from 1946 to 2006, with at least 25 annual battle-related deaths as coded by the UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset. The post-conflict justice (PCJ) efforts included are: trials, truth commissions, reparations, amnesties, purges, and exiles. By building upon the UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset, scholars interested in PCJ can include variables regarding the nature of the conflict itself to test how PCJ arrangements work in different environments in order to better address the relationships between justice, truth, and peace in the post-conflict period

Accountability · Armed conflict · Computer security · Conflict analysis · Conflict resolution · Criminology · Economic Justice · Economics · Order (exchange) · Peacebuilding · Political science · Sociology · Transitional justice · Cambodian History and Society · Computer Science · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance

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