Peace Agreements

Abstract

Types and Prevalence In contemporary usage, the term peace agreement loosely describes any textual instrument produced in a process aimed at ending or preventing armed conflict between two or more parties. Such a typology stretches from protocols, principles, frameworks, and memorandums at one end, toward single and limited issue agreements and comprehensive accords at the other. Here the most common types of peace agreements are presented by surveying the most widely used datasets and research projects on peace agreements. The Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) Peace Agreement Dataset at the University of Uppsala (Sweden) contains 217 peace agreements of various types signed between 1975 and 2011 (UCDP 2020). Of these 217 peace agreements, all but 20 were signed in