Current Trends in Mediation: MEND Key Findings
This policy brief presents key findings on the changing nature of peacemaking, based on the Mediation Event and Negotiators Database (MEND).
Author: Badanjak
Changing Peacemaking Practice: PA-X Key Findings
Authors: Sanja Badanjak, Laura Wise, Adam Farquhar, Niamh Henry, Héloïse Guichardaz, Robert Wilson, Tim Epple This policy brief presents key findings on changing peacemaking practice from 1990 – 2025,...
Peace Agreements in 2025: Insights from the PA-X Database
This data report explores peace agreements signed in 2025, their characteristics, analysis of the agreement contents and key topics, as well as data on gender provisions in peace agreements...
Mediation in 2025: Navigating overlapping conflict systems
Drawing on the second release of the Mediation Event and Negotiators Database (MEND), this report analyses 1,344 mediation and mediation-related events across eight conflict affected contexts.
Peace Agreements in 2024: Insights from the PA-X Database
This data report explores global insights into peace agreements signed in 2024 in the PA-X Peace Agreements Database.
Still time to talk: Adaptation and innovation in peace mediation
Accord 30 examines the evolving mediation landscape and explores innovative approaches to engage armed groups, navigate the digital environment, and ensure diverse views are incorporated into peace processes.
EU External Action and Development Spending in a Time of Covid-19
This report discusses "Team Europe", the EU's 2020 approach to funding and external engagement, and its pivotal role in the EU's response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Third Parties in Peace Agreements: First Look at New Data and Key Trends
This report discusses key trends in third-party signatories' engagement with peace agreements, with a focus on selected countries and regional organisations.
The PA-X Peace Agreements Database: Reflections on documenting the practice of peacemaking
Abstract: Since its first release in the form of the PA-X Peace Agreements Database, the initial project undertaken by the University of Edinburgh’s Political Settlements Research Programme has seen...
Designing an interactive real-time web-mapped dashboard to visualise conflict ceasefires...
Authors: Devanjan Bhattacharya, Sanja Badanjak, Christine Bell, Fiona Knäussel, Laura Wise, John Allison, Benjamin Bach In March 2020, the UN Secretary General issued a call for a global ceasefire to...
Breathing Space: Vaccination Ceasefires in Armed Conflict
About: In March 2020, as people worldwide grappled with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the United Nations Secretary General (UNSG) called for a global ceasefire “to help create...
Pandemic Pauses: Understanding Ceasefires in a Time of Covid-19
On 23 March 2020, the UN Secretary General (UNSG) Antonio Guterres called for an immediate global ceasefire, to help tackle the threat of Covid-19 rather than compound the risk...