Journal of Peace Research

Introducing the Transitional Justice Evaluation Tools (TJET) database - Geoff Dancy, Oskar Timo Thoms, Phuong Pham, Kathryn Sikkink, Patrick Vinck, 2025 The TJET project offers a comprehensive database for exploring the supply of transitional justice (TJ) in every country of the world. TJET provides detailed des...

🔗Read the open-access article by @geoffdancy.bsky.social, Oskar Timo Thoms, Phuong Pham, @kathrynsikkink.bsky.social, and @patrickvinck.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.1177/0022...

The dataset provides information on the type of mechanisms used, how they are designed, when they are implemented, as well as their evolution over time. This new data has a wide range of potential applications, including analysing trends over time and comparing between countries and cases.

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How do countries around the world pursue justice after human rights violations?
This special data feature introduces the Transitional Justice Evaluation Tools (TJET) database, which includes 400+ indicators on transitional justice mechanisms worldwide from 1970 to 2020.

Journal for Peace Research stands out as gender-inclusive among major peace and conflict journals – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) A new analysis of authorship patterns in leading peace and conflict journals shows the Journal of Peace Research has made substantial gains in gender d ...

We are pleased to see these encouraging developments and proud that JPR is leading the way, not only in publishing high-quality peace research but also in ensuring that this research reflects the full diversity of our scholarly community!
Read more here: www.prio.org/news/3660

We’re proud to share that JPR now leads its field in gender-inclusive authorship.
Between 2000 and 2024, the share of all-male author teams dropped from nearly 75% to ~40%. This shows the value of inclusive publication policies and collaborative research practices in peace and conflict studies.

📖 To learn more about the study’s findings, read the open access article here: doi.org/10.1177/0022...

The authors theorise that identity cues affect willingness to contribute to shared public goods and that collective climate risks may intensify identity-based divisions. Their mixed-methods approach combines focus group discussions with a public good experiment involving 300+ farmers and herders.

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How do identity cues and climate risks influence farmer-herder cooperation?
In this article, Alexandra Krendelsberger, Francisco Alpizar, Lotje de Vries & Han Van Dijk analyze how in-group and out-group perceptions influence cooperation between farmers & herders in Senegal.

📢Our November issue is now out!

📜30 Research Articles on women in conflict, the climate-conflict nexus, support for rebels, sanctions and more

🗒️1 Research Note on surveying in war zones

📊4 Special Data Features on UNSC draft resolutions and more

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Careful what you promise: Executive constraints and conflict recurrence - Sverke R Saxegaard, 2025 A substantial fraction of all intrastate conflict onsets are recurrences of previously active conflicts. Recent studies suggest that constitutional arrangements...

To learn more about the findings, read the article (open access!) here: doi.org/10.1177/0022...

While such promises can help sustain peace, excessive promises may not be credible. To test how far executive constraints should go in post-conflict settings, the article draws on global data from post-conflict regimes between 1975 and 2019 and a case study of the M23 rebels in the DR Congo.

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How do executive constraints influence the risk of conflict recurrence in post-conflict regimes?
@sverke.bsky.social (@statsvitenskap.bsky.social/MF vitenskapelig høyskole) explores how executive constraints can act as promises of minority & individual-rights protection.

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The authors compare private goods for ex-combatants (e.g. training programmes) and public goods (e.g. development plans) using cross-national data on peace agreements (1975–2021). They show that promises of private goods are more effective at preventing conflict recurrence than public good pledges

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How do economic provisions in peace agreements affect the durability of peace?
In this article, @elisaadamico.bsky.social, @sansosa.bsky.social, and Molly Melin examine how private goods for ex-combatants and public goods can shape peace durability after civil war.

Moving beyond group-level explanations alone, they construct a new dataset capturing the value of potential target cities and the costs of attacking them for rebel groups worldwide (2000-2020).
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What explains rebel movement during civil wars? Why do only some head right for the capital?
Bryce W Reeder (University of Missouri) and Gary Uzonyi (@unistrathclyde.bsky.social) develop a new framework linking rebel strategy to the strategic and symbolic value of territory.

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The analysis combines data on coercive migration attempts since the 1950s with environmental disaster records.

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Drawing on the concept of coercive engineered migration, which is the deliberate use of cross-border population movements to force concessions, the study argues that environmental disasters can overwhelm state capacity and make such coercion more effective.

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In this Research Note, Tobias Böhmelt (@universityofessex.bsky.social) examines whether migration-related coercion is more likely to succeed when targeted states face both domestic and environmental stress.

You can read the full article here: doi.org/10.1177/0022...

The authors argue that when such violence is framed in patriotic symbols and language, it can become less concerning. They test this theory through a survey experiment with 1,574 American adults, offering new insight into how national identity can shape public responses to domestic extremism.

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Effects plot showing how national attachment affects concern for violence. Blue triangles (low attachment) and red circles (high attachment) indicate probability of concern across categories like perpetrator identity, citizenship, target and motive.

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How does attachment to the nation influence one's perception of white nationalist terrorism in the United States?
In this article, Victoria Gurevich and Christopher Gelpi examine how national attachment can make people less concerned about white supremacist violence.

Violence against civil society actors in democracies: Territorialization of criminal economies and the assassination of social activists in Brazil - Juan Albarracín, Rodrigo Moura Karolczak, Jonas Wol... International NGOs and cross-national scholarship have drawn attention to a type of political violence particularly prevalent in democracies of the Global South...

@juanalbarracind.bsky.social, Rodrigo Moura Karolczak and Jonas Wolff develop a theoretical framework and test it in a mixed-methods study of the Brazilian Amazon, combining statistical analysis with an in-depth case study of Altamira.

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Why do assassinations of social activists persist in democratic regimes?
Juan Albarracín, Rodrigo Moura Karolczak & Jonas Wolff link these killings to highly territorialized industrial deforestation in the Amazon, where criminal-political networks violently react to local resistance.

Political violence in democracies: An Introduction - Andrea Ruggeri, Ursula Daxecker, Neeraj Prasad, 2025 It is well established that democracies experience less political violence than autocracies. Paradoxically, however, this widely accepted fact has led scholars ...

To get an overview of the special issue, read the introduction to the special issue here: doi.org/10.1177/0022...

The 14 special issue articles make advancements in four areas: (1) strategies of violent actors to avoid the accountability constraints of democracy, (2) the actors sponsoring violence, (3) the effects of political violence in democracy, and (4) the debate on popular support for political violence.

📣 New Special Issue! 📣
Our new special issue on Political Violence in Democracies is now out! 📖
This very timely special issue has been guest edited by @andrearuggeri.bsky.social, Ursula Daxecker and @neerajprsd.bsky.social.

Check out the complete issue here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/jpra/62/5

To learn more about the findings, read the open access article here: doi.org/10.1177/0022...

Using social media engagement as a proxy, they find a measurable drop in support for Republican politicians, especially those closely aligned with Donald Trump. The findings suggest that violent escalation can provoke short-term backlash, even in consolidated democracies.