This site provides access to the datasets used by authors of articles appearing in the Journal of Peace Research since 1998.

SIPRI collects data on arms transfers, military expenditures, peace operations, and the arms industry.

From the University of Notre Dame, this database compiles all comprehensive peace agreements and their implementations created between 1989 to 2012.

The Social Conflict Analysis Database (SCAD) includes protests, riots, strikes, inter-communal conflict, government violence against civilians, and other forms of social conflict not systematically tracked in other conflict datasets. SCAD currently includes information social conflicts from 1990-2017, covering all of Africa and now also Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.

Nonviolent and Violent Campaigns and Outcomes (NAVCO) Data Project is a multi-level data collection effort that catalogues major nonviolent and violent resistance campaigns around the globe from 1900-2013

The MAR project provides data on politically active communal groups of at least 500,000 people. Monitors status and conflict.

Data collected between January 20, 2017 and January 31, 2021 about US protest activity.

A protest event dataset of events occurring in the United States utilizing coded articles from the New York Times from 1960 to 1995.

The PTS meas­ures levels of polit­ic­al vi­ol­ence and ter­ror that a coun­try ex­per­i­ences in a par­tic­u­lar year based on a 5-level “ter­ror scale” ori­gin­ally de­veloped by Free­dom House. Coverage: 1976-2019.

Data on organized violence and the oldest ongoing data collection project for civil war, with a history of almost 40 years.

ACLED is a disaggregated conflict collection, analysis and crisis mapping project.

From the Council on Foreign Relations.

The Correlates of War project includes quantitative data on topics within international relations including trade, religion, alliances, militarization, colonialism, and conflict.

A global dataset that describes, in quantitative terms, the deliberate killing of non-combatant civilians in the context of a wider political conflict. Coverage 1995-2016.

Over 40,000 events from 1968-2009. Free for research and analysis. If using the data in your research, you must attribute to RAND Database of Worldwide Terrorism Incidents.

The Center for Systemic Peace's Integrated Network for Societal Conflict Research provides access to multiple data collections on political violence and conflict, covering topics such as displaced populations, large-scale violence, acts of terrorism, and political instability in the form of coups and state failures. The INSCR is also the home for the Polity IV data on regime types.