# PeaceRep:  Rethinking peace \& transition processes in a changing conflict landscape

> PeaceRep is a research consortium re\-thinking peace and transition processes in light of changing conflict dynamics\.

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## Pages
- [Key Findings](https://peacerep.org/key-findings/)
- [COVID Hub](https://peacerep.org/covid-hub/): Examine the effects of the COVID\-19 pandemic on peace and transition processes through the COVID\-19 Ceasefires Tracker, library and datasets\.
- [Maps and Dashboards](https://peacerep.org/maps-and-dashboards/): Explore data through interactive dashboards and maps, from perceptions of peace in South Sudan to how children and youth feature in peace agreements\.
- [Visualise Trends](https://peacerep.org/visualise-trends/): Explore our data visually to better understand data trends and insights, including messy peace processes, content alluvial, and data overview visualisations\.
- [Search PA\-X Data](https://peacerep.org/search-peace-data/): The PA\-X Database contains over 2,000 peace agreements from 1990\-2024, including sub\-databases on gender, local agreements, and amnesties\.
- [What We Do](https://peacerep.org/about/what-we-do/)
- [PeaceTech](https://peacerep.org/peacetech-tools/)
- [About](https://peacerep.org/about/)
- [Track Peace Processes](https://peacerep.org/pa-x-tracker/): The PA\-X Tracker monitors progress and implementation of peace and transition processes, including institutional, political, economic, humanitarian and security indicators\.
- [PA\-X Peace Agreements Database](https://peacerep.org/data/): PA\-X is the most expansive collection of peace agreements data in the world, containing more than 2,000 peace agreements\.
- [Resources](https://peacerep.org/resources/)
- [Videos](https://peacerep.org/videos/): Browse all PeaceRep videos\.
- [Podcasts](https://peacerep.org/podcasts/): Browse PeaceRep podcasts and listen to insights on our research\.
- [Who We Are](https://peacerep.org/about/who-we-are/)
- [Research \+ Data](https://peacerep.org/research-and-data/)
- [PeaceRep Lab](https://peacerep.org/peacelab/): Explore PeaceRep's stand\-alone digital innovations and latest data experiments, including works in progress and standalone data reports and visualisations\.
- [Data \& Digital Tools](https://peacerep.org/digital-resources/)
- [Countries](https://peacerep.org/about/countries/)
- [News](https://peacerep.org/newsportal/): Read the latest news and reports from PeaceRep projects and events here\.
- [Research](https://peacerep.org/research/)
- [Events](https://peacerep.org/events/)

## Posts
- [In the caretaker trap? The legal end of South Sudan’s transition](https://peacerep.org/2026/09/28/in-the-caretaker-trap-the-legal-end-of-south-sudans-transition/): The dissolution of South Sudan's transitional government marks the historic end of a six\-year transitional period, writes Jan Pospisil \- but constitutional danger could lie ahead\. 
- [A decade on, Somalia’s federal pact benefits elites and al‑Shabaab – but it fails the people](https://peacerep.org/2026/09/23/somalias-federal-pact-benefits-elites-and-al-shabaab-but-fails-the-people/): Nisar Majid explores checkpoint governance and manipulation of international aid in Somalia\. 
- [Digital transformation to end wars: foundational PeaceTech book updated for 2026](https://peacerep.org/2026/08/27/digital-transformation-to-end-wars-updated/): Prof Christine Bell's foundational book, PeaceTech: Digital Transformation to End Wars, has been updated to address recent changes in conflict, mediation and technology\.
- [Five years of misrule in Afghanistan: how the Taliban have created the conditions for reinvigorated resistance](https://peacerep.org/2026/08/18/five-years-of-misrule-in-afghanistan/): Prof Michael Semple explores the Afghan experience of civil resistance to the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate and what this tells us about possible pathways to peaceful change\. 
- [Why Gaza peace deals keep unravelling](https://peacerep.org/2026/08/21/why-gaza-peace-deals-keep-unravelling/): Adam Farquhar explores why a series of Gaza peace deals have failed and what a workable agreement needs to succeed\.

## Publications
- [Peacemongering in Violent Conflicts: Making Peace to Make War](https://peacerep.org/publication/peacemongering-in-violent-conflicts-making-peace-to-make-war/): This article introduces peacemongering – the use of peacemaking and peacebuilding as tools of hybrid and grey\-zone warfare to control \(post\-\)conflict orders and gain strategic advantage over rivals\.
- [Financial Dependencies and Conflict Resolution: The Role of Militarised Mediators in Modern Insurgencies](https://peacerep.org/publication/financial-dependencies-and-conflict-resolution-the-role-of-militarised-mediators-in-modern-insurgencies/): In modern conflicts, ‘militarised mediators’ \- external actors who fund rebel groups and mediate the conflict \- pose a paradox for conflict dynamics\. This study examines their impact in Africa using the UCDP External Support Dataset and African Peace Processes Database\.
- [Afghans’ Liminal Civil Resistance to Taliban Rule](https://peacerep.org/publication/afghans-liminal-civil-resistance-to-taliban-rule/): This report explores the Afghan experience of civil resistance to the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate and what this tells us about possible pathways to peaceful change\.
- [Constitutional Patchworks, Fragility and Public Finance: Myanmar Country Brief](https://peacerep.org/publication/constitutional-patchworks-fragility-and-public-finance-myanmar-country-brief/): This brief explores the different economic, fiscal, and political pressures faced by the main conflict and governance actors in Myanmar, and analyses how they overlap in conceptually and politically important ways with their efforts to forge a new constitutional future\.
- [Market Logics, Checkpoints and Transboundary Formations: The Somali Borderlands](https://peacerep.org/publication/market-logics-somali-borderlands/): This report synthesises several PeaceRep studies pertinent to border relations and political dynamics across inter\-connected sub\-regional spaces, focusing on the Somali territories of the Horn of Africa\.

## Profiles
- [Dr Juline Beaujouan](https://peacerep.org/profile/dr-juline-beaujouan/): Juline is a Research Affiliate with research expertise in non\-state actors, Political Islam, local conflict management and peacebuilding in the Middle East, notably in Syria and Iraq\.
- [Dr Luna Borges](https://peacerep.org/profile/dr-luna-borges/): Dr Luna Borges is a Lecturer in Law and Supervising Attorney at the Smith Family Human Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School, and a Research Affiliate of PeaceRep at the University of Edinburgh\.
- [Dr Emmanuel De Groof](https://peacerep.org/profile/emmanuel-de-groof/): Emmanuel is a Policy Affiliate and currently serves as a Consul with the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs\.
- [Andrei Gomez\-Suarez](https://peacerep.org/profile/andrei-gomez-suarez/): Andrei is a PeaceRep Policy Affiliate and a delegate of the Colombian government in the peace process with guerrilla group Comuneros del Sur\.
- [Dr Sean Molloy](https://peacerep.org/profile/dr-sean-molloy/): Sean is a PeaceRep Research Affiliate and a NUAcT Fellow in Law at Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University\. His research focuses on children's rights, peace processes and transitional justice\.

## Downloads
- [Water Resources](https://peacerep.org/sdm_downloads/water-resources/)
- [Emergency\-law\-responses\-to\-covid19 \(1\)](https://peacerep.org/sdm_downloads/emergency-law-responses-to-covid19-1/)
- [PA\-X\-Interim\-Transitions\-Digital](https://peacerep.org/sdm_downloads/pa-x-interim-transitions-digital/)
- [Investigating the Influence of Islamic State Discourse in Jordan](https://peacerep.org/sdm_downloads/investigating-the-influence-of-islamic-state-discourse-in-jordan/)
- [Implementing Peace \- Accord Spotlight April 2022](https://peacerep.org/sdm_downloads/implementing-peace-accord-spotlight-april-2022/)

## Events
- [Time to Make a Change: Reimagining Peace Processes in a Fragmented World](https://peacerep.org/event/time-to-make-a-change/): As the PeaceRep programme draws to a close, join us for a full\-day conference in Edinburgh to mark the culmination of five years of data\-driven research
- [The Crisis of Legitimacy in Peace Work and the Return of ‘Peace as Force'](https://peacerep.org/event/the-crisis-of-legitimacy-in-peace-work-and-the-return-of-peace-as-force/): Gearoid Millar examines the diminishing legitimacy and future of peace work at this talk co\-hosted by PeaceRep, CeSeR and the Global Justice Academy\.
- [Dr Houda Abadi: Reimagining Women, Peace and Security for Today's Geopolitics](https://peacerep.org/event/reimagining-wps/): Distinguished peacebuilder Dr Houda Abadi will reflect on lessons learned from 25 years of the UN Women, Peace and Security agenda\.
- [Somalia, Mapping the Fragments: Justice \& Security in Kismayo and Galkayo](https://peacerep.org/event/somalia-mapping-the-fragments-webinar/): This LSE CCRG webinar seeks to illustrate how a granular understanding of Somalia’s fragmented governance landscape can enhance policy and programmatic engagement\.
- [Peace Mediation and the Climate Crisis – Opportunities for Germany to Advance Climate\-Sensitive Mediation](https://peacerep.org/event/peace-mediation-and-the-climate-crisis/): This online launch event followed by a discussion will introduce the findings of the study “Peace Mediation in the Climate Crisis: Opportunities for Germany to Advance Climate\-Sensitive Mediation\.”

## Categories
- [Publication](https://peacerep.org/category/resources/publication/)
- [Blogs](https://peacerep.org/category/blog/)
- [News](https://peacerep.org/category/news/)
- [Profile](https://peacerep.org/category/profile/)
- [Covid](https://peacerep.org/category/covid/)

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- [lectures](https://peacerep.org/tag/lectures/)
- [podcasts](https://peacerep.org/tag/podcasts/)
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## Countries
- [Global](https://peacerep.org/countries/global/)
- [South Sudan](https://peacerep.org/countries/south-sudan/)
- [Ukraine](https://peacerep.org/countries/ukraine/)
- [Syria](https://peacerep.org/countries/syria/)
- [Afghanistan](https://peacerep.org/countries/afghanistan/)

## Authors
- [Bell](https://peacerep.org/authors/bell/)
- [Pospisil](https://peacerep.org/authors/pospisil/)
- [PSRP](https://peacerep.org/authors/psrp/)
- [Wise](https://peacerep.org/authors/wise/)
- [Beaujouan](https://peacerep.org/authors/beaujouan/)

## Themes
- [Peace Processes](https://peacerep.org/themes/peace-processes/)
- [Gender](https://peacerep.org/themes/gender/)
- [Conflict Management](https://peacerep.org/themes/conflict-management/)
- [Concepts](https://peacerep.org/themes/concepts/)
- [Global Transitions](https://peacerep.org/themes/global-transitions/)

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- [Datavis](https://peacerep.org/sdm_categories/datavis/)
- [Spanish](https://peacerep.org/sdm_categories/spanish/)

## Event Categories
- [Public Event](https://peacerep.org/events/category/event-type/public-event/)
- [Conference](https://peacerep.org/events/category/event-type/conference/)
- [Knowledge Exchange](https://peacerep.org/events/category/knowledge-exchange/)
- [Featured](https://peacerep.org/events/category/featured/)
- [Academic Event](https://peacerep.org/events/category/event-type/academic/)

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