Access datasets which I created or to which I contributed.
UN and Non-UN Peacekeeping Dataset
Quantitative peacekeeping research has to date almost exclusively focused on UN missions for lack of detailed data on non-UN peacekeeping missions. In this dataset I offer data on the approximate monthly number of troops, police, and observers in missions by the UN, regional organizations, and coalitions of states to civil conflicts globally between 1993 and 2023.
Important: The extended version (1993-2023) involves a reworked definition of what a peacekeeping mission is, and other revisions to the original codebook. I back-coded all old missions according to the new codebook. For the user this means: please do not mix the two versions in your analyses, use either the original or extended data but not a combination of the two.
If you have questions about the dataset or about the coding of individual missions, reach out: corinne.bara@sipo.gess.ethz.ch
When using this data, please always cite:
Bara, Corinne & Lisa Hultman (2020). Just Different Hats? Comparing UN and Non-UN Peacekeeping. International Peacekeeping 27(3): 341-368.
ucdplink: Method and R package to link different types of UCDP violence
We introduce an approach that connects different forms of war-related violence data collected by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program and links them to particular civil wars. The overall aim is to provide a more comprehensive measure of the violence taking place in a particular war and facilitate a better understanding of the dynamics and interrelations of different types of violence within civil wars.
Click here to download the ucdplink R package and the final dataset.
When using this data, please always cite:
Corinne Bara and Maurice P. Schumann (2025) Who, What, and Where? Linking Violence to Civil Wars, Research and Politics 12(1).
Civil Conflict Ceasefire Dataset
The Civil Conflict Ceasefire Dataset is the first comprehensive global dataset covering the full range of state-based ceasefire arrangements in civil conflicts between 1989–2020. In total, the CF data provides information on 2202 ceasefires across 66 countries in 109 civil conflicts, and involving 4091 declarations by 469 different governments and non-state armed groups. This human-coded data includes the full range of unilateral, bilateral, and multilateral arrangements, and a series of additional variables featuring, for example, the purpose, class, and outcome of all arrangements.
When using this data, please always cite:
Clayton, G., Nygård, H.M., Strand, H., Rustad, S.A., Wiehler, C., Sagård, T., Landsverk, P., Ryland, R., Sticher, V., Wink, E. and Bara, C. (2022). Introducing the ETH/PRIO civil conflict ceasefire dataset. Journal of Conflict Resolution, Online first. DOI:10.1177/00220027221129183.
UN Peace Missions Mandates (UNPMM)
The UNPMM is a dataset of all UN peace missions between 1948 and 2024. It includes peacekeeping operations (PKO), special political missions (SPM), and good offices engagements (GOE). The main author of the dataset is Sara Hellmüller at the Graduate Institute in Geneva; I contributed towards the end of the project with the data article.
When using this data, please always cite:
Hellmüller, Sara, Xiang-Yun Rosalind Tan, and Corinne Bara (2024). What is in a mandate? Introducing the UN peace mission mandates dataset. Journal of Conflict Resolution 68(1): 166-192.