Armed conflict and post-conflict justice, 1946–2006
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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.
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Scholars analyzing data on transitional justice have found little evidence that these mechanisms prevent former autocrats from reasserting political dominance or matter for democracy in the long run.
“Yet scholars analyzing data on transitional justice have found little evidence that these mechanisms make a difference in preventing former autocrats from reasserting their political dominance (Olsen, Payne, and Reiter 2010a; Binningsbø et al. 2012) or that they matter for democracy in the long run (Olsen, Payne, and Reiter 2010a; Van der Merwe, Baxter, and Chapman 2009; Thoms, Ron, and Paris 2010”
From Accountability by Numbers: A New Global Transitional Justice Dataset (1946–2016) (2020) · cites this paper as Binningsbø et al. 2012
The PCJ dataset represents the most comprehensive coding of conflict-related justice processes both in terms of temporal scope and process type as it collects data on six postconflict justice types from 1946 through 2006.
“First, the PCJ dataset represents the most comprehensive coding of conflict-related justice processes both in terms of temporal scope and process type as it collects data on six postconflict justice types from 1946 through 2006.”
From Conflict Recurrence and Postconflict Justice: Addressing Motivations and Opportunities for Sustainable Peace (2017) · cites this paper as Binningsbø et al. 2012
Special attention was paid to coding target and sender in the PCJ dataset; this information was coded directly from the news reports and supplemental materials used to code the postconflict justice process.
“Special attention was paid to coding target and sender in the PCJ dataset; this information was coded directly from the news reports and supplemental materials used to code the postconflict justice process (Binningsbø and Loyle 2012).”
From Conflict Recurrence and Postconflict Justice: Addressing Motivations and Opportunities for Sustainable Peace (2017) · cites this paper as Binningsbø and Loyle 2012
The PCJ dataset codes the process-specific variables necessary to test the hypotheses, such as the sender and target of each process.
“Finally, the PCJ dataset codes the process-specific variables necessary to test our hypotheses, such as the sender and target of each process (discussed further below).”
From Conflict Recurrence and Postconflict Justice: Addressing Motivations and Opportunities for Sustainable Peace (2017) · cites this paper as Binningsbø et al. 2012
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- Authors
- Binningsbø, H. M., Loyle, C. E., Gates, S., & Elster, J.
- Affiliations
- Peace Research Institute Oslo (NO)
- West Virginia University (US)
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)
- Collège de France (FR)
- Venue
- Journal of Peace Research
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2012-09-01
- Volume
- 49
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 731-740
- ISSN
- 0022-3433 (ISSN-L)
- 1460-3578
- OpenAlex
- W2128014874
- Cited by
- 104
- References
- 33
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 6 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 26.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Peace Research (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- United States Institute of Peace
- Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet
- Norges Forskningsråd
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › War, Law, and Justice
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Peacebuilding and International Security
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Conflict and Governance
- Keywords
- post-conflict justice, armed conflict, post-conflict peacebuilding, transitional justice, truth commissions, reparations, amnesty, purges, exile, accountability, internal armed conflict, peace and justice
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