{"id":14061,"date":"2021-06-03T12:48:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T12:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peacerep.org\/?p=14061"},"modified":"2021-06-03T12:54:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T12:54:14","slug":"newest-release-expands-pa-x-data-to-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gentest.cahss.ed.ac.uk\/dev-peacerep\/2021\/06\/03\/newest-release-expands-pa-x-data-to-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Newest release expands PA-X data to 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

PSRP has just published the fifth release of the PA-X Peace Agreements Database<\/a>. With this release, PA-X remains the most expansive and complete online archive, database, and dataset of peace agreements.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What\u2019s new in this release?<\/h4>\n

New agreements:<\/strong> This release adds 47 new agreements spanning dates from 2008 \u2013 2021. PA-X now includes the Juba Agreement (Sudan), which at 245 pages is one of the longest documents in the database. We have also added the Joint Statement on negotiations in Senegal (Casamance), from April 2021.<\/p>\n

Historical agreements on PA-X Local and PA-X Gender:<\/strong> Many of the new agreements in this release are in our sub-databases. PA-X Local<\/a> lists agreements that deal with local issues, involve local actors, and deal with forms of local\/communal violent conflict, and PA-X Gender<\/a> contains more detailed analysis of the agreements that mention women, girls, or gender. A total of 32 new agreements have been added to PA-X Local, from Central African Republic, Mali, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen, up to the first half of 2021. Most of these are historical additions, from 2008 onwards. A total of 14 new agreements have been added to PA-X Gender, from Central African Republic, Myanmar, South Sudan, and Sudan. Most of these agreements are from 2019, 2020, and 2021.<\/p>\n

Interim governance variable:<\/strong> We have also added a new variable in the PA-X dataset, which accounts for whether the agreement sets out an interim system of governance, in support of a transition. This is based on the definition from International IDEA: \u201cInterim governance arrangements are an institutional framework established to create a \u2018bridge\u2019 from a situation of governance that has been interrupted by political or violent crisis often situated in an authoritarian past, towards a more peaceful, inclusive and democratic government.\u201d (Interim Governance Arrangements in Post-Conflict and Fragile Settings by International IDEA)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About PA-X<\/h4>\n

The PA-X Peace Agreements Database<\/a> is a database and repository of peace agreements from 1990 to 2019. PA-X provides a comprehensive dataset of peace agreements capable of underpinning both quantitative and qualitative research. PA-X has been designed to provide easy access to peace agreement texts and to allow users to explore patterns of agreements over time, both within processes and across processes. PA-X is designed to be accessible to:<\/p>\n